The Writers' State: Constructing East German Literature 1945-1959

by Stephen Brockmann and Professor Stephen Brockmann

Twenty-five years after the demise of the German Democratic Republic, there is perhaps more scholarship being produced on all aspects of that country than ever. This is true also in the field of literary studies, but especially in English-language literary scholarship there has been a strong imbalance toward a focus on the last three decades of GDR literature. The literature of the earlier GDR has mostly been dismissed or ignored by scholars, as the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1571139532
• ISBN13: 9781571139535
• Release Date: December 2015
• Publisher: Camden House (NY)
• Length: 380 Pages
• Weight: 1.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"