Border crossings : an introduction to East German prose / Thomas C. Fox.
1993
PT3723 .F68 1993 (Mapit)
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Title
Border crossings : an introduction to East German prose / Thomas C. Fox.
Author
Fox, Thomas C., author.
ISBN
0472095145 (alk. paper)
9780472095148 (alk. paper)
0472065149 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780472065141 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780472095148 (alk. paper)
0472065149 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780472065141 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
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Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, ©1993.
Language
English
Description
xiv, 335 pages ; 24 cm
Call Number
PT3723 .F68 1993
Summary
Analyzes prose works (mainly novels, novellas, and stories) by East German writers, intended to acquaint American readers with these works. Several of them deal with Jews, antisemitism, or the Holocaust. See the discussion of the following: Stephan Hermlin, "The Time Together" (1949) (p. 28-31); Bruno Apitz, "Naked among Wolves" (1958) (p. 31-34); Franz Fühmann, "The Car with the Yellow Star" (1962) (p. 34-38); Johannes Bobrowski, "Levin's Mill" (1964) (p. 38-43); Jurek Becker, "Jacob the Liar" (1969) (p. 43-49); Fred Wander, "The Seventh Well" (1971) (p. 49-54); Stefan Heym, "The Wandering Jew" (1981) (p. 268-274). (From the Bibliography of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism).
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-325) and index.
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Table of Contents
Introduction (starting p. 1)
1 Remembering the Past (starting p. 17)
2 Forms of Protest: Early Experiments or the Politics of Epistemology (starting p. 69)
3 Adjustment to the Quotidian: The Literature of Reform (starting p. 103)
4 Beyond the Limits of the Permissible: The Literature of Dissent (starting p. 147)
5 Socialist Feminism: The Example of Christa Wolf (starting p. 189)
6 The Artist as Hero: The German-American Writer Stefan Heym (starting p. 229)
7 Erasing Borders: The Literature of Convergence (starting p. 279)
Chronology of Cultural/Political Events (starting p. 305)
Works Cited (starting p. 309)
Index (starting p. 327)
1 Remembering the Past (starting p. 17)
2 Forms of Protest: Early Experiments or the Politics of Epistemology (starting p. 69)
3 Adjustment to the Quotidian: The Literature of Reform (starting p. 103)
4 Beyond the Limits of the Permissible: The Literature of Dissent (starting p. 147)
5 Socialist Feminism: The Example of Christa Wolf (starting p. 189)
6 The Artist as Hero: The German-American Writer Stefan Heym (starting p. 229)
7 Erasing Borders: The Literature of Convergence (starting p. 279)
Chronology of Cultural/Political Events (starting p. 305)
Works Cited (starting p. 309)
Index (starting p. 327)