Christa Wolf

Published by De Gruyter 2018

Christa Wolf

A Companion

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

Volume 8 in the series Companions to Contemporary German Culture

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110496000

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About this book

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.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	V
A Note on Translations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	VII
Introduction: Reading Christa Wolf in the Twenty-First Century Sonja E. Klocke and Jennifer R. Hosek Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Modernity and the City in Christa Wolf’s Oeuvre of the 1960s Curtis Swope Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	35
Narrative Topographies in Christa Wolf’s Oeuvre Regine Criser Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	51
The Gendered Reception of Christa Wolf Anna K. Kuhn Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	65
Unearthing a Post-Humanist Ecological Socialism in Christa Wolf’s ‘Selbstversuch’, Kassandra and Störfall Deborah Janson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download 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 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	97
Literature and Visual Art in Christa Wolf’s Sommerstück (1989) and Was bleibt (1990) Roswitha Skare Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	113
Learning from the Underground: Christa Wolf and the Fourth Generation of GDR Writers Anna Horakova Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	131
From Pan-German Cosmopolitanism to Nostalgic National Insularity: A Comparative Study of Christa Wolf’s Kassandra and Medea John Pizer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	147
Christa Wolf’s Trouble with Race Beverly M. Weber Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download 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 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	181
The Protocol of Barriers to Thinking? Wolf’s Moskauer Tagebücher. Wer wir sind und wer wir waren (2014) Birgit Dahlke Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	201
Translating Subjective Authenticity from Christa T. to Stadt der Engel and August: Re-presenting Christa Wolf’s Subaltern Voice Caroline Summers Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download 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 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	243
Reading Christa Wolf in Socialist Vietnam Huynh Mai Trinh Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	263
Christa Wolf: A Select Bibliography Sonja E. Klocke Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	279
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	293
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	295

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Literaturwissenschafter, Germanisten
Pages
- Front matter: 8
- Main content: 298
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 2
Keywords: Christa Wolf; GDR literature; German literature

eBook

Published: March 19, 2018
ISBN: 9783110496000

Paperback

Published: March 19, 2018
ISBN: 9783110491999