Mapping Spaces: Reimagining East German Society in 1960s Fiction

ISBN-13: 9781787079151 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 262 str.

Francesca Goll

Opis

In the process of negotiating the social and political reality of the GDR, writers played a crucial role. This study analyses the ways in which authors Werner Bräunig and Erik Neutsch negotiated the tension between community and belonging in the GDR by focusing on spatial and topographical settings in their novels.

Spis treści

CONTENTS: The Aesthetics of Socio-Political Restructuring through the Prism of Mikhail M. Bakhtin and Benedict Anderson - Topography and Mapping - Perspectives on Perspectives: The Poetics of Thirdspace and the Self-Reflectivity of the Text - Chronotopes and Heteroglossia: «The novel as epistemological outlaw» - «Wo bleibt die Literaturwissenschaft?» Critical Responses to Spur der Steine - The Trace, Poetics and Thirdspace: From «blaue Blume» to «Blauhemd» - Art(s) and the Chronotope(s).

O autorze

Francesca Goll is currently an Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institut für deutsche Philologie at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. She holds a PhD from the University of Nottingham and an MSc from the London School of Economics. She has published on post-1945 literature and theories of space and has translated the poems of Mascha Kaléko into Italian.