Post-Fascist Fantasies
"Post-Fascist Fantasies is an exciting, provocative, powerful text. Brilliantly crafted and sustained with energy, it is an exemplary work of scholarship and theory. Reading it is an intellectually and aesthetically pleasurable experience from beginning to end."—Angelika Bammer, Emory University
Examines the cultural function of the novels of communist authors in East Germany from a psychoanalytic angle. This book argues that these socialist realist fictions were in fact complex fictions, sharing the theme of opposition to fascism. Les mer
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Duke University Press
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 384
- ISBN
- 9780822319634
- Utgivelsesår
- 1997
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"Post-Fascist Fantasies is an exciting, provocative, powerful text. Brilliantly crafted and sustained with energy, it is an exemplary work of scholarship and theory. Reading it is an intellectually and aesthetically pleasurable experience from beginning to end."—Angelika Bammer, Emory University
"Instead of falling back on tired theories of totalitarianism, Hell offers a highly literate and literary analysis of the ‘ideological fantasies’ that underlie the literature of the GDR."— Patricia A. Herminghouse, University of Rochester