Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
12.10.2007
Verlag
VDMSeitenzahl
243
Maße (L/B/H)
24/17/1,5 cm
Gewicht
438 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-3-8364-2730-2
Christa Wolf, a GDR intellectual, was discredited as a writer after German Unification.
How is it possible that one writer's literature is praised universally as
"critical" one moment, and denigrated as banal and simply moralistic the
next? As a response to the controversy around Christa Wolf, this work
attempts to understand Wolf less as an isolated "writer" than as an "effect" of
political and cultural discourse about the GDR in the Federal Republic of
Germany prior to unification and in united Germany after 1989. However, in
this book Wolf's own opinions about her role as intellectual active in the
GDR, as well as her explicit pacifist and feminist positions, which she
enunciated in both essays and her literature, are also taken into
consideration. Thus, the author plays the writer's own 'self-reflective' texts
over and against the texts that made Wolf first into the banner of an
alternative socialism and second, after the 'Wende', into the target of
conservative accusations. The book presents an interdisciplinary approach to
a well discussed writer that will not only engage scholars of Christa Wolf, but
will also appeal to those with broader interests in cultural politics, feminist
theories, especially those concerned with the role of (women) public
intellectuals.
How is it possible that one writer's literature is praised universally as
"critical" one moment, and denigrated as banal and simply moralistic the
next? As a response to the controversy around Christa Wolf, this work
attempts to understand Wolf less as an isolated "writer" than as an "effect" of
political and cultural discourse about the GDR in the Federal Republic of
Germany prior to unification and in united Germany after 1989. However, in
this book Wolf's own opinions about her role as intellectual active in the
GDR, as well as her explicit pacifist and feminist positions, which she
enunciated in both essays and her literature, are also taken into
consideration. Thus, the author plays the writer's own 'self-reflective' texts
over and against the texts that made Wolf first into the banner of an
alternative socialism and second, after the 'Wende', into the target of
conservative accusations. The book presents an interdisciplinary approach to
a well discussed writer that will not only engage scholars of Christa Wolf, but
will also appeal to those with broader interests in cultural politics, feminist
theories, especially those concerned with the role of (women) public
intellectuals.
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