Christa Wolf

Christa Wolf

A Companion

In: Companions to Contemporary German Culture, 8

Edited by: Sonja E. Klocke and Jennifer R. Hosek

De Gruyter | 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110496000

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Interest in Christa Wolf continues to grow. Her classics are being reprinted and new titles are appearing posthumously, becoming bestsellers, and being translated. Energetic scholarly debates engage well-known aesthetic and political issues that the public intellectual herself fore-fronted. This broad-ranging introduction to the author, her work and times builds upon and moves beyond such foundational interpretative frameworks by articulating the global relevance of Wolf’s oeuvre today, also for non-German readers. Thus, it brings East German culture alive to students, teachers, scholars and the general public by connecting the socialist German Democratic Republic (GDR) and the lived experiences of its citizens to nations and cultures around the world. The collection focuses on topical matters including the search for authenticity, agency, race, cosmopolitanism, gender, environmentalism, geopolitics, war, and memory debates, as well as movie adaptations and Wolf’s film work with DEFA, marketing, and international reception. Our contributions – by senior and emerging scholars from across the globe – emphasize Wolf’s position as an author of world literature and an important critical voice in the 21st century.

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Sonja E. Klocke, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA; Jennifer R. Hosek, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada.

Frontmatter Free access PDF PDF	I
Table of Contents Free access PDF PDF	V
A Note on Translations Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	VII
Introduction: Reading Christa Wolf in the Twenty-First Century Sonja E. Klocke and Jennifer R. Hosek Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	1
Modernity and the City in Christa Wolf’s Oeuvre of the 1960s Curtis Swope Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	35
Narrative Topographies in Christa Wolf’s Oeuvre Regine Criser Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	51
The Gendered Reception of Christa Wolf Anna K. Kuhn Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	65
Unearthing a Post-Humanist Ecological Socialism in Christa Wolf’s ‘Selbstversuch’, Kassandra and Störfall Deborah Janson Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	81
Nature, Power and Literature: Rereading Christa Wolf’s Störfall. Nachrichten eines Tages as ‘Ecological Force’ in Times of Climate Crisis Sabine von Mering Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	97
Literature and Visual Art in Christa Wolf’s Sommerstück (1989) and Was bleibt (1990) Roswitha Skare Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	113
Learning from the Underground: Christa Wolf and the Fourth Generation of GDR Writers Anna Horakova Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	131
From Pan-German Cosmopolitanism to Nostalgic National Insularity: A Comparative Study of Christa Wolf’s Kassandra and Medea John Pizer Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	147
Christa Wolf’s Trouble with Race Beverly M. Weber Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	163
Towards a Late Style? Christa Wolf on Old Age, Death and Creativity in Stadt der Engel oder The Overcoat of Dr. Freud Catherine Smale Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	181
The Protocol of Barriers to Thinking? Wolf’s Moskauer Tagebücher. Wer wir sind und wer wir waren (2014) Birgit Dahlke Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	201
Translating Subjective Authenticity from Christa T. to Stadt der Engel and August: Re-presenting Christa Wolf’s Subaltern Voice Caroline Summers Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	219
From Political-Realistic Reading to Multiperspectival Understanding: The Reception of Christa Wolf’s Der geteilte Himmel in China Yutian Chen and Fan Zhang Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	243
Reading Christa Wolf in Socialist Vietnam Huynh Mai Trinh Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	263
Christa Wolf: A Select Bibliography Sonja E. Klocke Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	279
Contributors Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	293
Index Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	295

Christa Wolf

A Companion

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