Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Disease, Death, and Desire Pre-1989: Christa Wolf’s Symptomatic GDR Bodies
- 2 Christa Wolf’s Goodbye to Socialism?: Illness, Healing, and Faith since 1990
- 3 Retrospective Imagination in Post-GDR Literature: Gender, Violence, and Politics in Medical Discourses
- 4 Haunted in Post-Wall Germany: Sickness, Symptomatic Bodies, and the Specters of the GDR
- Conclusion
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Disease, Death, and Desire Pre-1989: Christa Wolf’s Symptomatic GDR Bodies
- 2 Christa Wolf’s Goodbye to Socialism?: Illness, Healing, and Faith since 1990
- 3 Retrospective Imagination in Post-GDR Literature: Gender, Violence, and Politics in Medical Discourses
- 4 Haunted in Post-Wall Germany: Sickness, Symptomatic Bodies, and the Specters of the GDR
- Conclusion
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
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- Chapter
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- Inscription and RebellionIllness and the Symptomatic Body in East German Literature, pp. i - ivPublisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2015