Islands and Insularity in the Post-East German Novel

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Islands and Insularity in the Post-East German Novel

Public and Private Worlds

Shersby, Dr Janice

Boydell & Brewer Ltd

03/2026

190

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Inglês

9781640142435

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Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1 "Kunst ist Antwort": Art as Counterworld in Matthias Wegehaupt's GDR Fable, Die Insel
Chapter 2 "Wie verteidige ich mich gegenueber einer feindlichen Welt?": Resistance and Conformity in Uwe Tellkamp's Der Turm
Chapter 3 Psychic Retreats on Hiddensee: Inner Emigration in Lutz Seiler's Kruso
Chapter 4 Home and Heimat: Unreliable "Islands" and Critical Challenges to Insularity in Jenny Erpenbeck's Heimsuchung
Chapter 5: Enduring Dislocations: Problems of Flight and Engagement in Monika Maron's Endmoraenen and Ach Glueck
Chapter 6: "Eine vorgestellte zweite Wirklichkeit": Constructing Private Worlds in Antje Ravic Strubel's Sturz der Tage in die Nacht
Chapter 7 Demythologizing the Island Trope in Judith Schalansky's Blau steht dir nicht and Atlas der abgelegenen Inseln
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
East Germany; GDR; Post-unification Germany; Islands; Insular spaces; Autonomy; Counterworlds; Alienation; Literary theories; Psychological models; Identity; Self-determination