Contents: Acknowledgements; Introduction; The Special Position of Young, Left-wing GDR Intellectuals in the Former Eastern Bloc, Jan Faktor; Underground Journals in and around Leipzig in the 1980s, Jacques Poumet; Pop Music in the GDR between Conformity and Resistance, Peter Wicke; "Nuancen und Zwischentne" versus "muskelprotzende Prosa": Autobiography and the Project of Explaining "How it Was" in the GDR, Roger Woods; Die ostdeutschen Schriftsteller auf der Suche nach einem neuen Selbstverstandnis, Gnter Erbe; In the Shadow of the Rainbow: On Christophe Hein's Exekution eines Kalbes and Christa Wolf's Auf dem Weg nach Tabou, Christiane Zehl Romero; Apocalypse Now? Reading Volker Braun's Bhmen am Meer, Theodore Fiedler; Das Literatursystem der DDR. Kontexte und Voraussetzungen einer neuen Literaturgeschichte, Ulrich Meyszies; Buchenwald: Symbol and Metaphor for the Changing Political Culture of East Germany, David A. Hackett; East Goes West, Annette Simon; Concepts of Democracy of East and West German Politicians, Virginia Penrose; The Round Table Model: Reflections on a Political Experiment, Lothar Probst; The Heilmann Family: Social Restructuring and the Potential for Family Conflict in East Germany, A Sketch, Michael Hofmann; The Renaissance of East German Group Awareness since Unification, Thomas Koch; TSS Press in the New L0/00nder, John Sandford; The Treatment of Problems of Integration in Some Recent Works by Authors from the Former GDR, Nancy A. Lauckner; German Unification and the Sorb Minority, Horst Freyhofer; Contributors to the Volume.
- ISBN10 076180322X
- ISBN13 9780761803225
- Publish Date 4 August 1996
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 27 January 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University Press of America
- Edition 14th edition
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 316
- Language English