Politics of the Self : Feminism and the Postmodern in West German Literature and Film.

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Richard McCormick examines the concepts of postmodernity and postmodernism as they apply to West Germany, discussing them against the background of cultural and political upheaval in that country since the 1960s, rather than exclusively in the more familiar setting of intellectual history. Considering six literary and cinematic texts that are marked by a preoccupation with the self and subjectivity, he underscores the crucial influence of feminism on writers and filmmakers--and on the ""postmodern."" In a broad international context he describes the conflicting forces that affected the West.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ; ACRONYMS ; Introduction. West German Literature and Film Since 1968-Modern, Antimodern, Postmodern? ; Chapter One. ""All Power to the Imagination!"" From the 1960s to the 1970s; Contrasts and Continuities; The West German Student Movement; The Death of Literature?; Dogmatization and Resignation; Chapter Two. The Body, the Self; Against the Straitjacket of Theory; The Body versus the Head: Peter Schneider's Lenz; The Other Begins to Speak: Karin Struck's Class Love; Chapter Three. Writing and the ""Erotic Gaze""; The Crisis of Language.

Postmodern Pessimism? Botho Strauss's DevotionThe Writer in Film: Wrong Move by Peter Handke and Wim Wenders; Chapter Four. The Politics of Memory; 1977: Return of the Repressed; Women's Discourse and the German Past: Germany, Pale Mother by Helma Sanders-Brahms; Re-presenting History: The Subjective Factor by Helke Sander; Conclusion. Selves and Others; WORKS CONSULTED; INDEX.

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