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Entering History: Feminist Dialogues in Irmtraud Morgner's Prose

Entering History: Feminist Dialogues in Irmtraud Morgner's Prose

Von Der Emde, Silke
Hermand, Jost

Paperback

Series: German Life and Civilization, Book 40

Literary CriticismGeneral World History

ISBN10: 3039101587
ISBN13: 9783039101580
Publisher: Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publis
Published: Oct 13 2004
Pages: 264
Weight: 0.79
Height: 0.55 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
This book offers a thorough examination of the novels of Irmtraud Morgner (1933-1990), one of the most talented, compelling and overlooked writers within East German feminist and avant-garde circles. Using a combination of theoretical approaches - including Adorno's aesthetic theories and Bakhtinian analyses of dialogism and the carnivalesque - the author traces Morgner's engagement with postmodernist aesthetic strategies back to her efforts, beginning in the early 1970s, to pose questions about effective political practices. Morgner's work sheds new light on the fraught relationship between GDR intellectuals and the state, a hotly debated topic that marks most recent attempts to understand literary culture in the German Democratic Republic. Situating Morgner's fiction at the intersection of postmodern and feminist theory, this study also offers new evidence for viewing literature from the GDR as significantly more complex and aesthetically interesting than has been previously assumed.

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