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This book examines the controversial younger generation of poets who were 'born into' the established socialist state of the German Democratic Republic.
Introducing an extraordinary decade of GDR poetry, it focuses on the ways in which this experience is translated into the metaphorical and linguistic structures of their texts, and the ways in which they set about breaking the literary and political boundaries which were imposed upon them, radicalizing notions of the subject, of history, of language, of the poetic enterprise itself.
The volume also assesses what will remain - after the fall of the Wall, and the revelations of the 'Stasi' files - of this radical poetic project. This unique study examines the poetry of some fifty writers from both the official and the underground publishing scenes, offering them up as a case-study in the vexed negotiations between aesthetics, ethics, and politics, and as a contribution to the rewriting of German literary history after 1945.
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Breaking boundaries: a new generation of poets in the GDR
1996, Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press
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0198159102 9780198159100
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [309]-355) and index.
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