The East German Novel of Socialist Construction: Laboring Affect - Hardcover
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Availability:In StockContributor:Hunter BivensSeries:Culture and Power in German-Speaking Europe, 1918-1989 #3Publish date:1/20/2026Pages:280
Language:EnglishPublisher:Camden House (NY)ISBN-13:9781640141407ISBN-10:1640141405UPC:9781640141407Book Category:Literary Criticism, History, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:European, Europe, Political IdeologiesBook Topic:German, Germany, Communism, Post-Communism & SocialismSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.69 inchesWeight:1.2015Product ID:SC74PK9MG1
The East German Novel of Socialist Construction: Laboring Affect
Examines an important novelistic genre of the early German Democratic Republic for what it tells us about the country's aspirations to remake labor affectively and thus to build a socialist society. In a series of socialist realist novels written in the early 1950s, East German authors sought to capture "the new feeling of work" under socialism, to portray the collective enthusiasm of building a...
Series: Culture and Power in German-Speaking Europe, 1918-1989 #3
Language:EnglishPublisher:Camden House (NY)ISBN-13:9781640141407ISBN-10:1640141405UPC:9781640141407Book Category:Literary Criticism, History, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:European, Europe, Political IdeologiesBook Topic:German, Germany, Communism, Post-Communism & SocialismSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.69 inchesWeight:1.2015Product ID:SC74PK9MG1
Bivens, Hunter: - HUNTER BIVENS is Associate Professor of Literature and German Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Publisher: Camden House (NY)
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