Complicity, censorship and criticism : negotiating space in the GDR literary sphere / Sara Jones.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Foreword; Contents; Introduction; Defining the GDR; The Intellectuals; Selection of Authors; Selection of Sources; Complicit Critic: Hermann Kant and the Writer as Functionary; Working with the Stasi: Kant as Inoffizieller Mitarbeiter; Censorship and Repression: The Publication of Das Impressum; Criticism from Within: Kant and the Writers' Union; Literary Portrayals of "Intellect" and "Power": Das Impressum; Conclusion; Hostile Partisan: Stefan Heym and the Search for Clarity; Censorship and Repression: 5 Tage im Juni, Biermann and Collin.

Critical Voice: Alternative Public Forums, the Writer and the State in the Late GDRLiterary Portrayals of "Intellect" and "Power": Collin; Conclusion; Uncertain Comrade: Elfriede Brüning, Loyalty, Criticism and Power; Conclusion: Ambiguity, Fragmentation and the End of the GDR; Bibliography; Index of Names.

This study offers an interdisciplinary analysis of the cultural history of the German Democratic Republic. It examines the interaction between intellectuals and Party functionaries from a literary and historical perspective, drawing on and comparing archive material, autobiographies and the literary output of the selected authors. Divided into three case studies, the work focuses on the writers Hermann Kant, Stefan Heym and Elfriede Brüning, in the period 1966-1989, and considers in detail the questions of complicity, censorship and criticism in the literary life of the GDR.

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