Title Mapping the contours of oppression : subjectivity, truth and fiction in recent German autobiographical treatments of totalitarianism / Owen Evans

Published Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2006

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Description 1 online resource (356 pages) Series Amsterdamer Publikationen zur Sprache und Literatur, 0169-0221 ; 156 Amsterdamer Publikationen zur Sprache und Literatur ; 156. Bd. Contents Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 'Auch ich hatte die Finger im Spiel': Ludwig Harig, Weh dem, der aus der Reihe tanzt (1990); 2 'Das Ich liegt immer jenseits der Worte': Uwe Saeger, Die Nacht danach und der Morgen (1991); 3 'Für jeden war es einmalig': Ruth Klüger, weiter leben: Eine Jugend (1992); 4 'Taktieren mit der Macht': Günter de Bruyn, Zwischenbilanz: Eine Jugend in Berlin (1992) and Vierzig Jahre: Ein Lebensbericht (1996); 5 'Die Katalyse des Schreibens': Günter Kunert, Erwachsenenspiele: Erinnerungen (1997) Summary Despite all the assertions towards the end of the twentieth century that the literary subject had expired along with the author, the wave of autobiographies published in German after the Wende was a clear indication that, on the contrary, life stories were very much alive. In this study, Owen Evans examines the work of eight authors - Ludwig Harig, Uwe Saeger, Ruth Klüger, Günter de Bruyn, Günter Kunert, Christoph Hein, Grete Weil and Monika Maron - who all published personal texts after 1989 dealing either with life in Nazi Germany or the GDR, and in some cases both. By means of close textual Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-349) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL Print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject German literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism Totalitarianism -- Fiction Totalitarianism and literature. National socialism in literature. Socialism in literature. Self in literature. German literature National socialism in literature Self in literature Socialism in literature Totalitarianism Totalitarianism and literature Autobiografieën. Dictatuur. SUBJECT Germany -- History -- Unification, 1990. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh91000423 Subject Germany Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Fiction History Form Electronic book ISBN 1423785975 9781423785972

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