Ambivalent Literary Farewells to the German Democratic Republic

Ambivalent Literary Farewells to the German Democratic RepublicThis study reverses the question implicit in title of Christa Wolfs now canonical 1990 novella Was bleibt (What remains), looking instead at what was lost during the process of German reunification. It argues that, in their work during and after the Wende, most literary authors from both East and West Germany responded ambivalently to the reunification. Many felt, on the one hand, a keen sense of loss as the GDR dissolved and an expanded Federal

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