04113nam 22006612 450 991110388710332120151002020706.01-282-15058-897866121505861-57113-704-110.1515/9781571137043(CKB)2550000000000208(OCoLC)666937348(CaPaEBR)ebrary10363687(SSID)ssj0000309434(PQKBManifestationID)11207094(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000309434(PQKBWorkID)10266979(PQKB)11235285(UkCbUP)CR9781571137043(MiAaPQ)EBC3003643(DE-B1597)675149(DE-B1597)9781571137043(OCoLC)815779999(EXLCZ)99255000000000020820120822d2007|||| uy| 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierShifting perspectives East German autobiographical narratives before and after the end of the GDR /Dennis TateSuffolk :Boydell & Brewer,2007.1 online resource (267 pages) digital, PDF file(s)Studies in German literature, linguistics, and cultureTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).1-57113-372-0 Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-258) and index.Autobiographical writing in the East German context and beyond -- Brigitte Reimann: the constraints of first-person fiction -- Franz Fühmann: the deconstruction of an "exemplary" biography -- Stefan Heym: strategies of self-concealment in fictional and autobiographical mode -- Günter de Bruyn: from the "lies" of fiction to the "truth" of autobiography? -- Christa Wolf: "subjective authenticity" in practice: an evolving.A striking feature of today's German literature is the survival of an East German subculture characterized by its authors' self-reflexive concern with their own lives, not only in texts labeled as autobiography but also those in the more ambiguous territory of what Christa Wolf has called 'subjective authenticity.' Dennis Tate provides the first detailed account of this phenomenon: its origins in the 1930s' exile debates, its evolution during the GDR's lifespan, and its manifestations in the work of five East German authors still widely read today: Brigitte Reimann, Franz Fühmann, Stefan Heym, Günter de Bruyn, and Christa Wolf. Tate shows how the preoccupation with self arose from the unusually turbulent circumstances in which this generation has lived. Having succumbed early to the temptation to simplify their life stories for misguided educational purposes, these authors have repeatedly reconstructed their personal and political identities as their perspectives on the past have shifted. Tate shows the importance of viewing their autobiographical writing as a multilayered historical process, exposing problems with canonical accounts of East German literature and enabling texts published under GDR censorship to be properly appreciated for the first time. Dennis Tate is Professor of German Studies at the University of Bath, UK.Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture.German prose literatureGermany (East)History and criticismGerman prose literature20th centuryHistory and criticismAutobiographical fiction, GermanGermany (East)Autobiographical memory in literatureGerman prose literatureHistory and criticism.German prose literatureHistory and criticism.Autobiographical fiction, GermanAutobiographical memory in literature.830.9/943109045GN 1522BSZrvkTate Dennis1977505UkCbUPUkCbUPBOOK9911103887103321Shifting perspectives4747165UNINA04431nam 2200757Ia 450 991114607840332120251117102032.09780812208245081220824210.9783/9780812208245(CKB)2670000000418190(OCoLC)857347392(CaPaEBR)ebrary10748433(SSID)ssj0001035987(PQKBManifestationID)11556504(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001035987(PQKBWorkID)11041490(PQKB)10411522(OCoLC)867740062(MdBmJHUP)muse27253(DE-B1597)449755(OCoLC)979756712(DE-B1597)9780812208245(Au-PeEL)EBL3442066(CaPaEBR)ebr10748433(CaONFJC)MIL682656(MiAaPQ)EBC3442066(Perlego)732534(EXLCZ)99267000000041819020121128d2013 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrSlandering the Jew sexuality and difference in early Christian texts /Susanna Drake1st ed.Philadelphia PENN/University of Pennsylvania Press20131 online resource (185 p.)Divinations : rereading late ancient religionBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph9781322513744 1322513740 9780812245202 0812245202 Includes bibliographical references (p. 141-163) and index.Front matter --Contents --Introduction --Chapter 1. The Making of Carnal Israel: Paul, Barnabas, Justin --Chapter 2. Origen Reads Jewishness --Chapter 3. Sexual/Textual Corruption: Early Christian Interpretations of Susanna and the Elders --Chapter 4. "A Synagogue of Malakoi and Pornai": John Chrysostom's Sermons against the Jews --Conclusion --Abbreviations --Notes --Index --AcknowledgmentsAs Christian leaders in the first through fifth centuries embraced ascetic interpretations of the Bible and practices of sexual renunciation, sexual slander-such as the accusations Paul leveled against wayward Gentiles in the New Testament-played a pivotal role in the formation of early Christian identity. In particular, the imagined construct of the lascivious, literal-minded Jew served as a convenient foil to the chaste Christian ideal. Susanna Drake examines representations of Jewish sexuality in early Christian writings that use accusations of carnality, fleshliness, bestiality, and licentiousness as strategies to differentiate the "spiritual" Christian from the "carnal" Jew. Church fathers such as Justin Martyr, Hippolytus of Rome, Origen of Alexandria, and John Chrysostom portrayed Jewish men variously as dangerously hypersexual, at times literally seducing virtuous Christians into heresy, or as weak and effeminate, unable to control bodily impulses or govern their wives. As Drake shows, these carnal caricatures served not only to emphasize religious difference between Christians and Jews but also to justify increased legal constraints and violent acts against Jews as the interests of Christian leaders began to dovetail with the interests of the empire. Placing Christian representations of Jews at the root of the destruction of synagogues and mobbing of Jewish communities in the late fourth and early fifth centuries, Slandering the Jew casts new light on the intersections of sexuality, violence, representation, and religious identity.Divinations.Christianity and other religionsJudaismHistoryChurch historyPrimitive and early church, ca. 30-600JudaismRelationsChristianityHistorySexReligious aspectsChristianityHistory of doctrinesEarly church, ca. 30-600Christianity and other religionsJudaismHistory.Church historyJudaismRelationsChristianityHistory.SexReligious aspectsChristianityHistory of doctrines261.2/609015Drake Susanna1199621MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9911146078403321Slandering the Jew2771243UNINA