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After the Stasi - Collaboration and the Struggle for Sovereign Subjectivity in the Writing of German Unification (Hardcover)
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After the Stasi - Collaboration and the Struggle for Sovereign Subjectivity in the Writing of German Unification (Hardcover)
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Why did so many citizens of the GDR agree to collaborate with the
Stasi? Reading works of literature since German unification in the
light of previously unseen files from the archives of the Stasi,
After the Stasi uncovers how writers to the present day have
explored collaboration as a challenge to the sovereignty of
subjectivity. Annie Ring here interweaves close analysis of
literary fiction and life-writing by former Stasi spies and victims
with documents from the archive, new readings from literary
modernism and cultural theories of the self. In its pursuit of the
strange power of the Stasi, the book introduces an archetypal
character in the writing of German unification: one who is not
sovereign over her or his actions, but instead is compelled by an
imperative to collaborate - an imperative that persists in new
forms in the post-Cold War age. Ring's study identifies a
monumental historical shift after 1989, from a collaboration that
took place in concert with others, in a manner that could be
recorded in the archive, to the more isolated and ultimately less
accountable complicities of the capitalist present. While
considering this shift in the most recent texts by East German
writers, Ring provocatively suggests that their accounts of
collaboration under the Stasi, and of the less-than-sovereign
subjectivity to which it attests, remain urgent for understanding
the complicities to which we continue to consent in the present
day.
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