Examines the literature produced from the very beginnings of what
became the GDR through the 1950s, redressing a tendency of literary
scholarship to focus on the later GDR. Twenty-five years after the
demise of the German Democratic Republic, there is perhaps more
scholarship being produced on all aspects of that country than
ever. This is true also in the field of literary studies, but
especially inEnglish-language literary scholarship there has been a
strong imbalance toward a focus on the last three decades of GDR
literature. The literature of the earlier GDR has mostly been
dismissed or ignored by scholars, as the discontinuities between
the early and late GDR have been emphasized over the considerable
continuities. This book seeks to redress that state of affairs,
examining the literature produced from the very beginnings of what
became the GDRthrough the 1950s. In doing so it applies to GDR
literature the insight gained by scholars over the past few decades
that the immediate postwar period was more complex, more
meaningful, and more rewarding of study than it was longdeemed to
be. Far from all being mere propaganda or rote socialist realism,
the literature of the early GDR has much to tell us about the
budding socialist state, even as it goes far in explaining the
developments in the later GDR.
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