"""The double bind"" of 1989: reinterpreting space, place, and identity in postcommunist women's literature"
Wienhold-Brokish, Jessica L.
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Description
Title
"""The double bind"" of 1989: reinterpreting space, place, and identity in postcommunist women's literature"
Author(s)
Wienhold-Brokish, Jessica L.
Issue Date
2010-05-19T18:36:55Z
Director of Research (if dissertation) or Advisor (if thesis)
Kaganovsky, Lilya
Doctoral Committee Chair(s)
Kaganovsky, Lilya
Committee Member(s)
Blake, Nancy
Murav, Harriet
Pinkert, Anke
Department of Study
Comparative & World Literature
Discipline
Comparative Literature
Degree Granting Institution
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Degree Name
Ph.D.
Degree Level
Dissertation
Keyword(s)
post-communist
women's literature
place and space
Abstract
This dissertation is a comparative, cross-cultural exploration of identity construction after 1989 as it pertains to narrative setting and the creation of literary place in postcommunist women’s literature. Through spatial analysis the negotiation between the unresolvable bind of a stable national and personal identity and of a flexible transnational identity are discussed. Russian, German, and Croatian writers, specifically Olga Mukhina, Nina Sadur, Monika Maron, Barbara Honigmann, Angela Krauß, Vedrana Rudan, Dubravka Ugrešić, and Slavenka Drakulić, provide the material for an examination of the proliferation of female writers and the potential for recuperative literary techniques after 1989. The project is organized thematically with chapters dedicated to apartments, cities, and foreign lands, focusing on strategies of identity reconstruction after the fall of socialism.
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