Renegotiating history: representations of the family in post-1989 German literature
Criser, Regine
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Description
Title
Renegotiating history: representations of the family in post-1989 German literature
Author(s)
Criser, Regine
Issue Date
2013-08-22T16:35:56Z
Director of Research (if dissertation) or Advisor (if thesis)
Pinkert, Anke
Doctoral Committee Chair(s)
Pinkert, Anke
Committee Member(s)
Fritzsche, Peter A.
Johnson, Laurie R.
Niekerk, Carl
Yildiz, Yasemin
Department of Study
Germanic Languages & Lit
Discipline
German
Degree Granting Institution
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Degree Name
Ph.D.
Degree Level
Dissertation
Keyword(s)
Family
Space
Agency
Memory
Post-Socialist Germany
Post-1989 German Literature
Contemporary German Literature
Abstract
Scholars emphasize concepts of trauma and loss to describe literary responses to the collapse of socialism in 1989. In contrast, focusing on literary representations of family, this project reveals productive coping mechanisms developed in German literature after 1989. In artistic representation, family marks the site where the GDR’s dissolution and new post-1989 beginnings are negotiated. I draw on the concepts of agency, memory, and space to show how the historical transformation in 1989 affected existing family structures and how narrative family representations negotiate the historical meaning of 1989. Situated at the intersection of literature, cultural studies, and history, this project shows how family representations constitute a privileged site of post-socialist renewals.
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