Science Fiction Literature in East Germany
East German science fiction enabled its authors to create a subversive space in another time and place. One of the country’s most popular genres, it outlined futures that often went beyond the party’s official version. Many utopian stories provided a corrective vision, intended to preserve and impro...
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| author | Fritzsche, Sonja |
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| description | East German science fiction enabled its authors to create a subversive space in another time and place. One of the country’s most popular genres, it outlined futures that often went beyond the party’s official version. Many utopian stories provided a corrective vision, intended to preserve and improve upon East German communism. This study is an introduction to East German science fiction. The book begins with a chapter on German science fiction before 1949. It then spans the entire existence of the country (1949-1990) and outlines key topics essential to understanding the genre: popular literature, socialist realism, censorship, fandom, and international science fiction. An in-depth discussion addresses notions of high and low literature, elements of the fantastic and utopia as critical narrative strategies, ideology and realism in East German literature, gender, and the relation between literature and science. Through a close textual analysis of three science fiction novels, the author expands East German literary history to include science fiction as a valuable source for developing a multi-faceted understanding of the country’s short history. Finally, an epilogue notes new titles and developments since the fall of the Berlin Wall. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-393202025-02-13T03:54:31Z Science Fiction Literature in East Germany Fritzsche, Sonja Censorship Cybernetics Deutschland (DDR) East Fiction Fritzsche Germany Literature Realism Richard Science Science Fiction Sciencefiction Sonja Space Race Zipser thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSB Literary studies: general::DSBH Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000::DSBH5 Literary studies: postcolonial literature thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GT Interdisciplinary studies::GTM Regional / International studies thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general East German science fiction enabled its authors to create a subversive space in another time and place. One of the country’s most popular genres, it outlined futures that often went beyond the party’s official version. Many utopian stories provided a corrective vision, intended to preserve and improve upon East German communism. This study is an introduction to East German science fiction. The book begins with a chapter on German science fiction before 1949. It then spans the entire existence of the country (1949-1990) and outlines key topics essential to understanding the genre: popular literature, socialist realism, censorship, fandom, and international science fiction. An in-depth discussion addresses notions of high and low literature, elements of the fantastic and utopia as critical narrative strategies, ideology and realism in East German literature, gender, and the relation between literature and science. Through a close textual analysis of three science fiction novels, the author expands East German literary history to include science fiction as a valuable source for developing a multi-faceted understanding of the country’s short history. Finally, an epilogue notes new titles and developments since the fall of the Berlin Wall. 2021-02-10T12:58:18Z 2019-01-10 23:55 2018-12-01 23:55:55 2020-01-15 13:41:09 2020-04-01T11:18:11Z 2018 book 1003375 OCN: 1080479829 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/26687 9781788745666;9783039107391 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/39320 eng DDR- Studien / East German Studies open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg n/a n/a n/a n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/26687/1/1003375.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/26687/1/1003375.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/26687/1/1003375.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/26687/1/1003375.pdf Peter Lang International Academic Publishers 10.3726/b14377 10.3726/b14377 44a712f0-ee17-4c08-a667-46effed595e7 9781788745666;9783039107391 333 Bern open access |
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