Output details
27 - Area Studies
University of Bath
Article title
Spurensuche im Labyrinth. Momente des Unheimlichen in Christa Wolf's Früh- und Spätwerk
Type
D - Journal article
DOI
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Title of journal
Text+Kritik Zeitschrift fur Literatur
Article number
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Volume number
46
Issue number
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First page of article
128
ISSN of journal
0040-5329
Year of publication
2012
Number of additional authors
0
Additional information
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Interdisciplinary
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Cross-referral requested
-
Research group
None
Proposed double-weighted
No
Double-weighted statement
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Reserve for a double-weighted output
No
Non-English
Yes
English abstract
This article interrogates the post-unification prose writing of Christa Wolf. In contrast to most post-unification Wolf criticism, which has associated a shift in the author’s writing towards the uncanny and the spectral with the collapse of communism, this research demonstrates that moments of the uncanny in this author’s work must actually be associated with developments in East Germany from the mid-1960s. They signal the author’s disquiet with communism and her growing self-alienation and lack of orientation as a politically committed author and intellectual.
