Engendering cultural memory in selected post-Wende literary texts of the 1990s

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The works of Monika Maron and Martin Walser as examples of the influence of gender on memory are discussed. In her fictionalized biography "Pawel's Briefe" Maron challenges official East German historiography. Martin Walser's "Ein springender Brunnen" insists on the validity of private memories of the Nazi era and insists on closure of the public debates of this era.

Author: Eigler, Friederike
Publisher: American Association of Teachers of German
Publication Name: The German Quarterly
Subject: Regional focus/area studies
ISSN: 0016-8831
Year: 2001
Germany, Literature, East Germany, Walser, Martin, Maron, Monika

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A literature of theory: Christa Wolf's 'Kassandra' lectures as feminist anti-poetics

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A reading of Christa Wolf's 'Kassandra' as part of her 'Frankfurter Poetik Vorlesungen' is used to show her wish to confront rather than adhere to generic boundaries in this work. She activates the reader by making Kassandra less independent and avoids ending the narrative by constant cross-referincing of fiction and theory.

Author: Beebee, Thomas O., Weber, Beverly M.
Publisher: American Association of Teachers of German
Publication Name: The German Quarterly
Subject: Regional focus/area studies
ISSN: 0016-8831
Year: 2001

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Rereading Christa Wolf's "Selbstversuch": cyborgs and feminist critiques of scientific discourse

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This discussion of Christa Wolf's sex change story "Selbstversuch" uses feminist approaches to the history of science, studies on cyborgology, and literary-cultural studies challenging the sex/gender system. Wolf's work was famous in the old East Germany.

Author: Eigler, Friederike
Publisher: American Association of Teachers of German
Publication Name: The German Quarterly
Subject: Regional focus/area studies
ISSN: 0016-8831
Year: 2000
Selbstversuch (Book)

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Subjects list: Germany, Criticism and interpretation, German literature, Wolf, Christa
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