Shifting Perspectives: East German Autobiographical Narratives Before and After the End of the GDR

by Dennis Tate

Book Overview

First treatment of a conspicuously East German feature in today's German literature, that of autobiographical writing -- and rewriting.

A striking feature of today's German literature is the survival of an East German subculture characterized by its authors' self-reflexive concern with their own lives, not only in texts labeled as autobiography but also those in the more ambiguous territory of what Christa Wolf has called subjective authenticity...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1571133720
• ISBN13: 9781571133724
• Release Date: August 2007
• Publisher: Camden House (NY)
• Length: 275 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.3"