Post-fascist fantasies : psychoanalysis, history, and the literature of East Germany /
Post-Fascist Fantasies examines the cultural function of the novels of Communist authors in East Germany from a psychoanalytic angle. Various critics have argued that these socialist realist fictions were monolithic attempts to translate Communist dogma into the realm of aesthetics. Julia Hell argue...
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| Language: | English |
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Durham [N.C.] :
Duke University Press,
1997
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| Series: | Post-contemporary interventions.
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- Critical Orthodoxies: Toward a New Reading of East German Literature
- I. In the Name of the Father: East Germany's Foundational Narratives. 1. Specters of Stalin, of Constructing Communist Fathers. 2. Stalinist Motherhood, or the Hollow Spaces of Emotion: Netty Reiling/Anna Seghers
- II. Mapping the Oedipal Story onto Post-Fascist Socialism: New Families/New Bodies. 3. The Past in the Present: Sons, Daughters, and the Fantasy of Post-Fascist Bodies
- III. Inscribing the Daughter in the Paternal Narrative. 4. Post-Fascist Body/Post-Fascist Voice: Christa Wolf's Moskauer Novelle and Der geteilte Himmel. 5. The Paternal Family Narrative as Autobiography and as Parable: Christa Wolf's Kindheitsmuster and Kassandra. History as Trauma.
