Inscription and Rebellion - Illness and the Symptomatic Body in East German Literature

Employs research on the GDR's healthcare system along with feminist and queer theory to get at socialism's legacy, revealing a specifically East German literary convention: employment of "symptomatic female bodies" to either enforce or rebel against political and social norms.

List of contents

Introduction
Disease, Death, and Desire Pre-1989: Christa Wolf's Symptomatic GDR Bodies
Christa Wolf's Goodbye to Socialism?: Illness, Healing, and Faith since 1990
Retrospective Imagination in Post-GDR Literature: Gender, Violence, and Politics in Medical Discourses
Haunted in Post-Wall Germany: Sickness, Symptomatic Bodies, and the Specters of the GDR
Conclusion
Glossary
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Sonja E. Klocke

Product details

• Authors: Sonja Klocke, Sonja (Customer) Klocke, Sonja E Klocke, Sonja E. Klocke
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.11.2015
• EAN: 9781571139337
• ISBN: 978-1-57113-933-7
• No. of pages: 258
• Dimensions: 161 mm x 237 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 549 g
• Series: Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture; Studies in German Literature,; Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture; Studies in German Literature L
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Deutsch, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / German, Literature - Classics / Criticism