Changing Identities in East Germany. Selected Papers from the Nineteenth and Twentieth New Hampshire Symposia

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, G,nter 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 L%onder, 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

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