This volume is the first anthology of contemporary East German women's writing in English translation. It will introduce scholars and general readers to writers whose voices are essential to an understanding of the situation of women in today's changing Europe. Included are short stories, essays, autobiographical sketches, and excerpts from novels, written between 1974 and 1986 by women of the postwar generation. Their work reflects everyday life in the GDR before the fall of the Berlin Wall with vitality, sympathy, humor, and warmth. This literature has been of great significance within the GDR as a public forum for social-critical discussion, and in the West for its depiction--as the volume title suggests--of universal issues confronting women in modern society: women and work, women and family, women's self-determination in relation to other people and social institutions. The twenty-five authors represented are Renate Apitz, Irene Böhme, Daniela Dahn, Gabriele Eckart, Christiane Grosz, Monika Helmecke, Helga Königsdorf, Angela Krauss, Katja Lange-Müller, Beate Morgenstern, Irmtraud Morgner, Christa Müller, Doris Paschiller, Helga Schubert, Helga Schütz, Maria Seidemann, Angela Stachowa, Gerti Tetzner, Maxie Wander, Petra Werner, Maja Wiens, Christa Wolf, Christina Wolter, Charlotte Worgitzky, and Rosemarie Zeplin. Notes and biographical introductions are provided for each story.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
ISBN-10
0803279426
ISBN-13
9780803279421
eBay Product ID (ePID)
774273
Product Key Features
Book Title
Daughters of Eve : Women's Writing from the German Democratic Republic
Author
Dorothy Rosenberg
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
European / German, European / General, General
Publication Year
1993
Genre
Literary Criticism, Literary Collections
Number of Pages
332 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9in
Item Height
0.6in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
17 Oz
Additional Product Features
Copyright Date
1993
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
92-031238
Dewey Decimal
833.9140809287
Series
European Women Writers Ser.
Dewey Edition
20
Illustrated
Yes
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