Legal Tender : Love and Legitimacy in the East German Cultural Imagination /

Legal Tender : Love and Legitimacy in the East German Cultural Imagination /

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At first glance, romance seems an improbable angle from which to write a cultural history of the German Democratic Republic. By most accounts the GDR was among the most dour and disciplined of socialist states, so devoted to the rigors of Stalinist aesthetics that the notion of an East German romant...

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Main Author: Urang, John Griffith, 1975-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Library, 2010.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Romance films.
Romance fiction, German.
Love > Social aspects.
Love in motion pictures.
Love in literature.
German fiction.
Civilization.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > German.
Amour > Aspect social > Allemagne (Est)
Amour au cinema.
Amour dans la litterature.
Films d'amour > Allemagne (Est) > Histoire.
Roman allemand > Allemagne (Est) > Histoire et critique.
Love > Social aspects > Germany (East)
Romance films > Germany (East) > History.
German fiction > Germany (East) > History and criticism.
Romance fiction, German > Germany (East) > History and criticism.
Germany (East)
Germany (East) > Civilization.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : Eros and exchange
  • Wares of love : socialist romance and the commodity
  • Love, labor, loss : modes of romance in the East German novel of arrival
  • Corrective affinities : love, class, and the propagation of socialism
  • W(h)ither Eros? : gender trouble in the GDR, 1975/1989
  • Eye contact : surveillance, perversion, and the last days of the GDR
  • Coda : a chameleon wedding.

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