LEADER 04473oam 22007814a 450 001 9910459948403321 005 20210915034647.0 010 $a0-8014-6006-9 024 7 $a10.7591/9780801460067 035 $a(CKB)2670000000080924 035 $a(EBL)3137964 035 $a(OCoLC)922998082 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000485539 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11289293 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000485539 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10603926 035 $a(PQKB)11004979 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3137964 035 $a(OCoLC)663901477 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse28957 035 $a(DE-B1597)478694 035 $a(OCoLC)979627758 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780801460067 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3137964 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10457585 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL683541 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000080924 100 $a20100308d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aLegal Tender$eLove and Legitimacy in the East German Cultural Imagination /$fJohn Griffith Urang 210 1$aIthaca, N.Y. :$cCornell University Library,$d2010. 210 4$dİ2010. 215 $a1 online resource (256 p.) 225 0 $aSignale : modern German letters, cultures, and thought 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-322-52259-6 311 $a0-8014-7653-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction : Eros and exchange -- Wares of love : socialist romance and the commodity -- Love, labor, loss : modes of romance in the East German novel of arrival -- Corrective affinities : love, class, and the propagation of socialism -- W(h)ither Eros? : gender trouble in the GDR, 1975/1989 -- Eye contact : surveillance, perversion, and the last days of the GDR -- Coda : a chameleon wedding. 330 $aAt first glance, romance seems an improbable angle from which to write a cultural history of the German Democratic Republic. By most accounts the GDR was among the most dour and disciplined of socialist states, so devoted to the rigors of Stalinist aesthetics that the notion of an East German romantic comedy was more likely to generate punch lines than lines at the box office.But in fact, as John Urang shows in Legal Tender, love was freighted as a privileged site for the negotiation and reorganization of a surprising array of issues in East German public culture between 1949 and 1989. Through close readings of a diverse selection of films and novels from the former GDR, Urang offers an eye-opening account of the ideological stakes of love stories in East German culture. Throughout its forty-year existence the East German state was plagued with an ongoing problem of legitimacy. The love story's unique and unpredictable mix of stabilizing and subversive effects gave it a peculiar status in the cultural sphere.Urang shows how love stories could mediate the problem of social stratification, providing a language with which to discuss the experience of class antagonism without undermining the Party's legitimacy. But for the Party there was danger in borrowing legitimacy from the romantic plot: the love story's destabilizing influences of desire and drive could just as easily disrupt as reconcile. A unique contribution to German studies, Legal Tender offers remarkable insights into the uses and capacities of romance in modern Western culture. 410 0$aSignale (Ithaca, N.Y.) 606 $aLove$xSocial aspects$zGermany (East) 606 $aLove in motion pictures 606 $aLove in literature 606 $aRomance films$zGermany (East)$xHistory 606 $aGerman fiction$zGermany (East)$xHistory and criticism 606 $aLove stories, German$zGermany (East)$xHistory and criticism 607 $aGermany (East)$xCivilization 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aLove$xSocial aspects 615 0$aLove in motion pictures. 615 0$aLove in literature. 615 0$aRomance films$xHistory. 615 0$aGerman fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aLove stories, German$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a843/.085090914 700 $aUrang$b John Griffith$f1975-$01023647 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910459948403321 996 $aLegal Tender$92432094 997 $aUNINA 999 $p$132.97$u06/17/2016$5Eng