Representations of Flight and Expulsion in East German Prose Works

Explodes the conventional wisdom that there was a taboo on the topic of flight and expulsion in East Germany.

List of contents

Introduction
Evidence and Interpretation: Flight and Expulsion in GDR Prose Works
GDR Reconstruction Literature of the 1950s and Early 1960s and the Figure of the Refugee
From Novels Set in the Nazi Period to Novels of Revisiting
The Skeptical Muse: Reassessing Integration
Flight and Expulsion in East German Prose Works after Unification
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Bill Niven

Product details

• Authors: Bill Niven, William Niven, William John Niven
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.07.2014
• EAN: 9781571135353
• ISBN: 978-1-57113-535-3
• No. of pages: 228
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 236 mm x 30 mm
• Weight: 458 g
• Series: Studies in German Literature,; Studies in German Literature L
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Deutsch, Literatur: Geschichte und Kritik, Fernsehen, TV, PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / German, Literature - Classics / Criticism, PERFORMING ARTS / Television / History & Criticism