The Radical Subject: Social Change and the Self in Recent German Autobiography: 13 (Britische Und Irische Studien Zur Deutschen Sprache Und Lite) - Softcover
This study offers an examination of key autobiographical texts arising from the student movement and the New Women's Movement in the Federal Republic of Germany during the 1960s and 1970s. Existing critical debates about the 'New Subjectivity' of the 1970s, it argues, fail to do justice to the issue of autobiographical writing in German literature after 1968. By contrast, this book makes the case for an interdisciplinary approach to Bernward Vesper's "Die Reise," Rolf Dieter Brinkmann's "Erkundungen zur Prazisierung des Gefuhls," Karin Struck's "Klassenliebe," Inga Buhmann's "Ich habe mir eine Geschichte geschrieben" and Verena Stefan's "Hautungen" which is able to illuminate these texts both as historical documents and as contributions to the genre of autobiography. The textual analyses at the heart of the study explore the often complex, yet always fascinating relationship between autobiographical practices and the politics of the student and the feminist movements in the Federal Republic."
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Review:
-Such detailed and sophisticated English-language analyses of German anti-authoritarian theory and its reception are rare, and the book addresses a lacuna, too, in exploring a fascinating group of texts on which...almost nothing, to date, has been published in English. Thus, 'The Radical Subject' succeeds very well in its aim of providing an interdisciplinary study of the connections between writing and politics in the field in question.- (Mererid Puw Davies, Journal of European Studies)
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About the Author:
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Paul Cooke is a Lecturer in German Studies at the University of Leeds.
Andrew Plowman teaches German Language, Literature and Film Studies in the School of Modern Languages at the University of Liverpool.
Andrew Plowman teaches German Language, Literature and Film Studies in the School of Modern Languages at the University of Liverpool.
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- PublisherPeter Lang Publishing
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 0820434493
- ISBN 13 9780820434490
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages168
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