"""The Double Bind"" of 1989: Reinterpreting Space, Place, and Identity in Postcommunist Women's Literature"

Wienhold-Brokish, Jessica L.

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Title

"""The Double Bind"" of 1989: Reinterpreting Space, Place, and Identity in Postcommunist Women's Literature"

Author(s)

Wienhold-Brokish, Jessica L.

Issue Date

2010-05-19

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
• Literature
• women's literature
• Germanic
• 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.

Graduation Semester

2010-5

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