Rifts in Time and in the Self: The Female Subject in Two Generations of East German Women WritersRodopi, 2004 - 238 pages The fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 marked the end of East Germany's socialist regime and a new beginning for a unified German Federal Republic. Cultural historians agree that the event caused one of the deepest rifts in time and thinking seen by an entire generation of Germans--a rift that left its mark on the psyche of every citizen, challenging notions of the personal and the political, and crashing traditional understandings of the individual and the collective self. In this bold rethinking of the question, Cheryl Dueck goes beyond the social, political, and psychological discourses that Marx and Freud, Foucault and Lacan viewed as the initiators of modern (socialist) identities to explore the literature and discourse of the quest for unity of the female subject. Reading such authors as Christa Wolf, Brigitte Reimann, Helga Königsdorf, and Helga Schubert, Dueck traces the striking fissures which run through time and through the female self, haunting women within the socialist project. The book shows how two generations of women writers have struggled consciously and systematically in their letters, aesthetic writings, and literary production to create a new language to express their own sense of self within a restrictive socialist and patriarchal system. Rifts in Time and in the Self offers an unprecedented look at the reconceptualizations of the female subject during several phases of GDR history, and women writers' persistent attempt to carve out spaces of identity and community. |
Table des matières
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FROM HEALTHY TO HYSTERICAL | 19 |
UTOPIA? | 47 |
THE WOMAN IN QUESTION | 79 |
A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH | 108 |
THE WENDE AS RIFT | 139 |
HEALING THE WOUND? | 158 |
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Ankunft Author's Dimension become behaviour Bitterfeld body Cassandra character Christa Wolf concept critical cultural death death drive dream East German emancipation experience father fear feels female subject feminine feminism fiction Fission Franziska Linkerhand Frau Frauen Freud Freudian geht gender German German Democratic Republic habe Helga Königsdorf Helga Schubert husband identity ideological individual Irmtraud Morgner Jhanz Kindheitsmuster Königsdorf and Schubert Kristeva language Lise Meitner literary subject literature lives male Marx Marxist Maxie Wander Medea Meitner Menschen Modern Retelling muß narrative narrator narrator's Nelly norms novel past patriarchal Patterns of Childhood Pawel perceived political position prose protagonist Quest question reader Recha Reimann and Wolf rejected relationship Respektloser rift role sense sexual social socialist realism society story symbolic order texts tion Träume truth Ungelegener unsere utopian weiß Wolf and Reimann Wolf Biermann Wolf's woman Women of Judas women writers Zeit
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Page 12 - The first class opposition that appears in history coincides with the development of the antagonism between man and woman in monogamous marriage, and the first class oppression coincides with that of the female sex by the male.