Ghosts have made an unexpected reappearance in German literature
since 1989. Catherine Smale reads this as symptomatic of writers'
attempts to renegotiate their personal and collective identity in
the wake of German reunification. Focusing on two major authors
from the former GDR, Christa Wolf and Irina Liebmann, Smale
examines the ways in which their work adopts notions of haunting in
its creative engagement with the double legacy of Socialism and
National Socialism. The ghost has long been regarded as a vehicle
for making manifest taboo or unauthorized memories. However, Smale
goes further, demonstrating how the human subject is destabilized
by the return of the phantom and is itself rendered insecure and
spectral.
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