Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material / Axel Goodbody and Dennis Tate -- Preface / Axel Goodbody and Dennis Tate -- Gleisbau / Joachim Walther -- Für eine andere Wahrnehmung der DDR-Literatur: Neue Kontexte, neue Paradigmen, ein neuer Kanon / Wolfgang Emmerich -- Die Literatur ist zuständig: Ãœber das Verhältnis von Literatur und Politik in der DDR / Frank Hörnigk -- ‘Das Wort wird zur Vokabel' - The Depiction of the Early 1950s in GDR Literature / Margy Gerber -- ‘Der Himmel teilt sich zuallererst' - Weltanschauliche Wandlungen bei Christa Wolf von den fünfziger zu den sechziger Jahren. / Karin McPherson -- Erik Neutsch's Spur der Steine : The Book, the Play, the Film / J.H. Reid -- The Politics of Confrontation: The Biermann Affair and its Consequences / Ian Wallace -- Mit der Reichsbahn ins Weltall: Zur Science-Fiction der DDR / Hanne Castein -- From Oobliadooh to Prenzlauer Berg: Literature, Alternative Lifestyle and Identity in the GDR / Martin Kane -- Peter-Weiss-Lektüre nach der ‘Wende‘: Noch einmal zum Verhältnis von Kunst und Politik in Die Ästhetik des Widerstands / Joseph Pischel -- Text and Context - Was bleibt 1979-1989 / Georgina Paul -- The Erosion of Hope, or: What remains of Christa Wolf? / Peter Graves -- ‘Botschaft aus einem seltsamen Land': Helga Königsdorf and her Critics / Brigid Haines -- Im Schatten der Titanin: Minor GDR Women Writers - Justly Neglected, Unrecognised or Repressed? / Ricarda Schmidt -- Sarah Kirsch in Ost und West / Christine Cosentino -- Das Erfahren von Macht und Geist. Zu Erich Loests Roman Völkerschlachtdenkmal / Gerd Labroisse -- Power and ‘konstruktiver Defaitismus'. Literary Strategies in the Work of Heiner Müller / Arrigo Subiotto -- Volker Braun und seine Gewährsmänner: Von der Solidarität der verhinderten Revolutionäre / Gisela Shaw -- Schreibend das Sprechen üben oder: ‘Worüber man nicht reden kann, davon kann die Kunst ein Lied singen' oder ‘Als Kind habe ich Stalin gesehen' - Zur Prosa Christoph Heins / Hannes Krauss -- Another Piece of the Past: Writing since the ‘Wende' / T.J. Reed -- Notes on Contributors / Axel Goodbody and Dennis Tate -- Index / Axel Goodbody and Dennis Tate.

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