Writing to Change the World: Anna Seghers, Authorship, and International Solidarity in the Twentieth Century

by Marike Janzen

In the twentieth century, leftist authors around the world understood their writing as an act of solidarity, but their common project was obscured by the end of the Cold War and the dismantling of socialist states. This book begins to recover the global history of solidarity as a principle of authorship, taking Anna Seghers (1900-1983), one of the most important German writers of her time, as an exemplar. Like other leftist authors in other languages...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 164014014X
• ISBN13: 9781640140141
• Release Date: February 2018
• Publisher: Camden House (NY)
• Length: 178 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"