Humor, satire, and identity : eastern German literature in the 1990s / Jill E. Twark.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 409-471).

Humor and satire as responses to the Wende -- The comic survivor : self-irony and defensiveness in the post-Wende transition -- Thomas Rosenlöcher's Die Wiederentdeckung des Gehens beim Wandern -- Bernd Schirmer's Schlehweins Giraffe -- Jens Sparschuh's Der Zimmerspringbrunnen -- The picaresque as a means to reckon with the GDR -- Thomas Brussig's Helden wie wir -- Bashing Christa Wolf : Brussig's attacks on GDR intellectuals, women, and Ostalgie -- Matthias Biskupek's Der Quotensachse -- Reinhard Ulbrich's Spur der Broiler -- Regional identities and family feuds under the microscope of ironic realism -- Erich Loest's Katerfrühstück -- Ingo Schulze's Simple storys -- Grotesque configurations of body, language, and narrative as expressions of trauma and refractory identities -- Volker Braun's Der Wendehals -- Kerstin Hensel's Gipshut -- Building an Eastern German identity by sustaining and subverting past and present German society -- Interview with Bernd Schirmer -- Interview with Matthias Biskupek -- Interview with Thomas Rosenlöcher -- Interview with Jens Sparschuh -- Interview with Reinhard Ulbrich.

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This is the first book in English to explore the Eastern German literary trend of the 1990s employing humor and satire to come to terms with socialism's failure and a difficult unification process. The ten novels in this survey include works by Brussig, Schulze, and Hensel. These popular, contemporary texts help define Germany today from a specific, East German perspective. Grounded in politics and history, the texts are analyzed for their literary aesthetics, cultural critiques, and socio-political insights. Several original author interviews are appended as primary sources.

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