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Suicide In East German Literature Fiction Rhetoric And The Selfdestruction Of Literary Heritage Robert Blankenship

Name: Suicide In East German Literature Fiction Rhetoric And The Selfdestruction Of Literary Heritage Robert Blankenship
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Suicide In East German Literature Fiction Rhetoric And The Selfdestruction Of Literary Heritage Robert Blankenship instant download after payment.

Publisher: Camden House

File Extension: PDF

File size: 4.71 MB

Pages: 202

Author: Robert Blankenship

ISBN: 9781571135742, 157113574X

Language: English

Year: 2017

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Suicide In East German Literature Fiction Rhetoric And The Selfdestruction Of Literary Heritage Robert Blankenship by Robert Blankenship 9781571135742, 157113574X instant download after payment.

The many fictional suicides in the literature of the German Democratic Republic have been greatly misunderstood. The common assumption is that authoritarian oppression in East Germany led to an anomalous abundance of real suicides, so that fictional suicides in GDR literature constitute a simple, realistic reflection of East German society. Robert Blankenship challenges this assumption by providing both a history of suicide in GDR literature and close readings of individual texts, revealing that suicides in GDR literature, rather than simply reflecting historical suicides, contain rich literary attributes such as intertextuality, haunting, epistolarity, and unorthodox narrative strategies. Such literariness offered subversive potential beyond suggesting that real people killed themselves in a communist country. This first book-length study of fictional suicides in East German literature provides insight into the complex and dynamic rhetoric of the GDR. Blankenship's underlying claim is that GDR literature ought to be read as literature, with literary methodology, not despite the country's politically and rhetorically charged nature,but precisely because of it.Suicide in East German Literaturewill be of interest to scholars of GDR literature, humanities-oriented scholars of suicide, and those who are interested in the complex relationship between literature and history.
Robert Blankenship is Assistant Professor of German at California State University, Long Beach.