LEADER 04531nam 2200709Ia 450 001 9910819196603321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a94-012-0167-6 010 $a1-4237-8597-5 024 7 $a10.1163/9789401201674 035 $a(CKB)1000000000462465 035 $a(EBL)556813 035 $a(OCoLC)70553375 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000197649 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12042908 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000197649 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10160610 035 $a(PQKB)11333883 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC556813 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL556813 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10380251 035 $a(nllekb)BRILL9789401201674 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000462465 100 $a20060203d2006 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aMapping the contours of oppression $esubjectivity, truth and fiction in recent German autobiographical treatments of totalitarianism /$fOwen Evans 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aAmsterdam ;$aNew York, NY $cRodopi$d2006 215 $a1 online resource (369 p.) 225 1 $aAmsterdamer Publikationen zur Sprache und Literatur,$x0169-0221 ;$v156 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a90-420-1719-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [329]-349) and index. 327 $aAcknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 'Auch ich hatte die Finger im Spiel': Ludwig Harig, Weh dem, der aus der Reihe tanzt (1990) -- 2 'Das Ich liegt immer jenseits der Worte': Uwe Saeger, Die Nacht danach und der Morgen (1991) -- 3 'Für jeden war es einmalig': Ruth Klüger, weiter leben: Eine Jugend (1992) -- 4 'Taktieren mit der Macht': Günter de Bruyn, Zwischenbilanz: Eine Jugend in Berlin (1992) and Vierzig Jahre: Ein Lebensbericht (1996) -- 5 'Die Katalyse des Schreibens': Günter Kunert, Erwachsenenspiele: Erinnerungen (1997) -- 6 '"Man soll nie lügen. Oder nur, wenn es nicht anders geht"': Christoph Hein, Von allem Anfang an (1997) -- 7 'Es gab nur noch die eine Aufgabe: Gegen das Vergessen anzuschreiben': Grete Weil, Leb ich denn, wenn andere leben (1998) -- 8 'Mutmaßungen über Pawel': Monika Maron, Pawels Briefe: Eine Familiengeschichte (1999) -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index. 330 $aDespite all the assertions towards the end of the twentieth century that the literary subject had expired along with the author, the wave of autobiographies published in German after the Wende was a clear indication that, on the contrary, life stories were very much alive. In this study, Owen Evans examines the work of eight authors - Ludwig Harig, Uwe Saeger, Ruth Klüger, Günter de Bruyn, Günter Kunert, Christoph Hein, Grete Weil and Monika Maron - who all published personal texts after 1989 dealing either with life in Nazi Germany or the GDR, and in some cases both. By means of close textual analysis, Evans explores the impact these regimes had on the individuals concerned and the contrasting ways in which the authors handle the autobiographical project. They adopt varying textual strategies to render the self on the page, with some employing overt fiction, and yet in each case, the project was clearly motivated by the need to treat psychological wounds inflicted on the self by totalitarianism. In their mapping of the contours of oppression, the texts at the heart of this study combine to offer a powerful defence of literary autobiography, in Germany at least, as a valuable means of tackling the legacy of totalitarianism. 410 0$aAmsterdamer Publikationen zur Sprache und Literatur ;$v156. Bd. 606 $aGerman literature$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aNational socialism in literature 606 $aSelf in literature 606 $aSocialism in literature 606 $aTotalitarianism and literature 606 $aTotalitarianism$vFiction 607 $aGermany$xHistory$yUnification, 1990 615 0$aGerman literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aNational socialism in literature. 615 0$aSelf in literature. 615 0$aSocialism in literature. 615 0$aTotalitarianism and literature. 615 0$aTotalitarianism 676 $a830.9/00914 700 $aEvans$b Owen$f1967-$01753631 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910819196603321 996 $aMapping the contours of oppression$94189558 997 $aUNINA