Understanding Christa Wolf : returning home to a foreign land
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Bibliographic Information
Understanding Christa Wolf : returning home to a foreign land
(Understanding modern European and Latin American literature)
University of South Carolina Press, c1997
Available at 5 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 172-176) and index
Contents of Works
- Understanding Christa Wolf : some prerequisites
- "Identity through bonds"
- "So much light in so much darkness"
- "To be honest, to be lonely"
- "Reality broken in two"
- "Curiosity is a vice of women and cats"
- "Running into knives"
- Romanticists : "precursors, you"
- "Books are deeds"
- "Idyll and catastrophe"
- "Returning home to a foreign land"
Description and Table of Contents
Description
In this chronological study of Christa Wolf's novels, short stories and essays, Margit Resch surveys the literary career of one of Germany's most acclaimed writers. Resch examines the link between Wolf's writing and her country's traumatic past and contends that any assessmnt of the writer must consider the historical metamorphoses of Germany during her lifetime - from fascism to socialism to democracy. Resch explores central questions about Wolf's life and work, including why Wolf, who enjoyed unrestricted travel privileges, remained in the East when she could easily have defected; how she was able to survive artistically in an authoritarian regime; which qualities in her writing earned the respect of major critics on both sides of the Wall; why she has chosen not to identify with the feminist movement; and what she has contributed to German and world literature. Resch provides readings of Wolf's major works, including ""Divided Heaven, ""The Quest for Christa T."", ""Patterns of Childhood"", ""Cassandra"" and ""What Remains"".
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