Rereading Monika Maron - Text, Counter-Text and Context (Paperback, New edition)

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the writing of Monika Maron. Her biography charts a complex relationship with the GDR state, from initial ideological identification to sustained, radical rejection. Situating its reflections on her work against the backdrop of a changing critical landscape, this analysis takes account of the re-contextualisation of her writing necessitated by the collapse of the GDR. The author charts the development of a number of seminal themes in Maron's oeuvre. The search for an authentic form of expression in her earliest texts gave way to a focus on the writing and the rewriting of history. The demise of the political system in 1989 led to an exploration in her work of more intimate themes. Maron's post-Wende writing makes an important East German contribution to debates on memory transmission and generational forgetting. Her most recent novels are concerned with the rupture and the ultimate refashioning of biographies in a post-GDR age. Rereading her texts in a post-Wende light, the author explores the complexity of Maron's relationship with the state from which she emerged and demonstrates how this complexity manifests itself in her writing before and after 1989. This study offers new perspectives on Maron's work and illuminates the significance of her contribution to contemporary German literature.

General

Imprint:	Verlag Peter Lang
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Series:	Britische und Irische Studien zur deutschen Sprache und Literatur / British and Irish Studies in German Language and Literature, 50
Release date:	November 2010
First published:	2011
Authors:	Deirdre Byrnes
Dimensions:	227 x 250 x 13mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	193
Edition:	New edition
ISBN-13:	978-3-03-911422-1
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900 Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Essays, journals, letters & other prose works > Classical, early & medieval Books > Humanities > History > World history > From 1900 > Postwar, from 1945 Books > History > World history > From 1900 > Postwar, from 1945
LSN:	3-03-911422-0
Barcode:	9783039114221

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