Legal tender : love and legitimacy in the East German cultural imagination

Legal tender love and legitimacy in the East German cultural imagination

At first glance, romance seems an improbable angle from which to write a cultural history of the German Democratic Republic. By most accounts the GDR was among the most dour and disciplined of socialist states, so devoted to the rigors of Stalinist aesthetics that the notion of an East German romant...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Urang, John Griffith, 1975- (-)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press : Cornell University Library 2010.
Ithaca, NY : [2011]
Edition:1st ed
Series:Signale (Ithaca, N.Y.)
Subjects:
Love stories, German > Germany (East) > History and criticism.
German fiction > Germany (East) > History and criticism.
Romance films > Germany (East) > History.
Love in literature.
Love in motion pictures.
Love > Social aspects > Germany (East)
Germany (East) > Civilization.
See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009433906206719
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : Eros and exchange
  • Wares of love : socialist romance and the commodity
  • Love, labor, loss : modes of romance in the East German novel of arrival
  • Corrective affinities : love, class, and the propagation of socialism
  • W(h)ither Eros? : gender trouble in the GDR, 1975/1989
  • Eye contact : surveillance, perversion, and the last days of the GDR
  • Coda : a chameleon wedding.

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