"Arguably the most important-and influential-German woman writer of the last century, Christa Wolf was long heralded as "die gesamtdeutsche Autorin," an author for all of Germany; but, after 1989 in unified Germany, Wolf found herself suddenly embroiled in controversies that challenged her integrity and consigned her to an ideologically suspect identity as "DDR Schriftstellerin" (GDR writer) or "Staatsdichterin" (state poet). What Remains: Revisiting the Life and Work of Christa Wolf asks the question ofwhat truly remains of her legacy in the annals of contemporary German culture and history. Unlike most of what appeared in the wake of Wolf's death, however, the contributions to this international volume seek neither to monumentalize her nor to dismantle her stature, but to employ a range of methodologies-comparative, intertextual, psychoanalytic, historical, transcultural-to offer sensitive assessments of Wolf's major literary texts, as well as of her lesser known work in genres such as film and essay"--
Arguably the most important—and influential—German woman writer of the last century, Christa Wolf was long heralded as "die gesamtdeutsche Autorin," an author for all of Germany; but, after 1989 in unified Germany, Wolf found herself suddenly embroiled in controversies that challenged her integrity and consigned her to an ideologically suspect identity as "DDR Schriftstellerin” (GDR writer) or “Staatsdichterin” (state poet). What Remains: Revisiting the Life and Work of Christa Wolf asks the question of what truly remains of her legacy in the annals of contemporary German culture and history. Unlike most of what appeared in the wake of Wolf’s death, however, the contributions to this international volume seek neither to monumentalize her nor to dismantle her stature, but to employ a range of methodologies—comparative, intertextual, psychoanalytic, historical, transcultural—to offer sensitive assessments of Wolf’s major literary texts, as well as of her lesser known work in genres such as film and essay.
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Overall, the volume is carefully edited and presents a range of interesting angles on Wolfs work no doubt it will serve as a useful resource for researchers and students of Wolfs work and GDR culture more broadly. The German Quarterly
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Introduction
Gerald Fetz and Patricia Herminghouse
Part I: Patterns of Memory: The Trauma of the Forgotten
Chapter
1. Faraway So Close: Transcultural Memory as Christa Wolf s Last
Word
Silke von der Emde
Chapter
2. Whos Afraid of Christa Wolf or The Overcoat of Dr. Freud: Memory
and Its Discontents
Martina Kolb
Chapter
3. Fetishism or Working Through? Concerning the Role of Dr. Freud in
City of Angels or, The Overcoat of Dr. Freud
David Bathrick
Part II: Christa Wolf as a Writer of Time and Her Times
Chapter
4. The Notion of Heimat in Christa Wolf s Patterns of Childhood
Marijke Mulder
Chapter
5. Writing the Self: Literary Vergegenwärtigung in Christa Wolf s
Patterns of Childhood and City of Angels or, The Overcoat of Dr. Freud
Mark Lauer
Chapter
6. The Heterochronic Narrative of Christa Wolf
Heike Polster
Chapter
7. Subjective Authenticity as Realism: Christa Wolf and Georg
Lukács
Robert Blankenship
Part III: Christa Wolf in the Public Sphere
Chapter
8. To Be Recognized Again: Memory, Amnesia, and Sincerity in Christa
Wolf
Christine Kanz
Chapter
9. Was bleibt aber, stiften die Dichter: Christa Wolf s Contested
Role as Spokesperson for Generations of Readers and Women Writers
Janine Ludwig
Chapter
10. This Is No Longer My World: The Multiple Alienations of
Christa Wolf
Daniela Colombo
Part IV: Illness, Anxiety, and Trauma
Chapter
11. To Follow the Trail of Pain: Coming to Terms with the Past in
Christa Wolf s In the Flesh
Deborah Janson
Chapter
12. Deliberating the ängstliche Margarete: Coping with Anxiety in
Christa Wolf s City of Angels or, the Overcoat of
Dr. Freud
Ivett Rita Guntersdorfer
Chapter
13. Coming Full Circle: Trauma, Empathy, and Writing in Change of
Perspective (Blickwechsel, 1970) and August (2011)
Friederike Eigler
Part V: Christa Wolf and the Visual Arts
Chapter
14. A Womans Voice on Screen: Christa Wolf and the Cinema
Barton Byg
Chapter
15. Women at the Edge of a Nervous Breakdown: The Berlin Wall and
the Collapse of Female Consciousness in
Divided Heaven and Good Bye, Lenin!
Susanne Rinner
Chapter
16. The Impact of Christa Wolf s Cassandra on Women Artists in East
Germany
April A. Eisman
Index
Gerald Fetz is Dean and Professor Emeritus, University of Montana. He has published books and articles on several German-Language writers, including Martin Walser, Thomas Bernhard, Lilian Faschinger, Franz Innerhofer, Franz Kakfa, W.G. Sebald, as well as on German historical drama and literature of the Wende. He currently serves on the Board of the German Studies Association and is the chief editor at the University of Montana Press.
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