Post-fascist fantasies
psychoanalysis, history, and the literature of East Germany
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Publication
1997 - Duke University Press, Durham [N.C.], North Carolina
Language
English
Word Count
92,000 words, Guess
Page Count
368 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL1011558M
- ISBN-100822319551
- OCLC Control Number36138349
- OCLC Control Numberpostfascistfanta0000hell
- Library of Congress Control Number96052157
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- Goodreads4208609
Classifications
- DDC833/.9109355
- LCCPT3705 .H4 1997
Description
Post-Fascist Fantasies examines the cultural function of the novels of Communist authors in East Germany from a psychoanalytic angle. Various critics have argued that these socialist realist fictions were monolithic attempts to translate Communist dogma into the realm of aesthetics. Julia Hell argues to the contrary that they were in fact complex fictions sharing the theme of antifascism, the founding discourse of the German Democratic Republic. Employing an approach informed by Slavoj Zizek's work on the Communist's sublime body and by British psychoanalytic feminism's concern with feminine subjectivity, Hell first examines the antifascist works by exiled authors and authors tied to the resistance movement. She then strives to understand the role of Christa Wolf, the GDR's most prominent author, in the GDR's effort to reconstruct symbolic power after the Nazi period.
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Series Statement
- Post-contemporary interventions
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- Post-fascist fantasies: psychoanalysis, history, and the literature of East Germany
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