Complicity, Censorship and Criticism: Negotiating Space in the Gdr Literary Sphere

by Sara Jones

This study develops an interdisciplinary approach to the analysis of the cultural history of the German Democratic Republic, examining the interaction between intellectuals and Party functionaries from a literary and historical perspective. Divided into three case studies, the work focuses on writers positioned along a spectrum of conformity and dissent and who had quite different relationships to political power: Hermann Kant, Stefan Heym and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3110237954
• ISBN13: 9783110237955
• Release Date: June 2011
• Publisher: de Gruyter
• Length: 230 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary