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Inscription and rebellion : illness and the symptomatic body in East German literature / Sonja E. Klocke.

Summary:

"The health-care system of the German Democratic Republic reflected the importance the socialist state assigned the health of both its citizens and of the metaphorical national body meant to represent and promulgate the nation's political vitality. Yet many East German literary writers depicted characters ailing and under medical care, and even after the country's dissolution in 1990, writers who had lived there continued to portray sickness and the GDR health-care system prominently in their fiction. This book offers an innovative reading of such texts, employing historical research on the GDR's health-care system and feminist and queer theory to get at socialism's legacy."-- Provided by publisher

Record details

ISBN: 1571139338
ISBN: 1782046445
ISBN: 9781571139337
ISBN: 9781782046448
Physical Description: 1 online resource
Publisher: Rochester, New York : Camden House, [2015]

Content descriptions

General Note:	CatMonthString:july.24 Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1: Disease, Death, and Desire Pre-1989: Christa Wolf's Symptomatic GDR Bodies; 2: Christa Wolf's Goodbye to Socialism?: Illness, Healing, and Faith since 1990; 3: Retrospective Imagination in Post-GDR Literature: Gender, Violence, and Politics in Medical Discourses; 4: Haunted in Post-Wall Germany: Sickness, Symptomatic Bodies, and the Specters of the GDR; Conclusion; Glossary; Bibliography; Index.
Type of Computer File or Data Note:	Text (HTML), electronic book.
System Details Note:	Mode of access: Internet.
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note:	Access requires VIU IP addresses and is restricted to VIU students, faculty and staff. Access restricted by subscription.
Issuing Body Note:	Made available online by JSTOR.
Source of Description Note:	Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed November 2, 2015).