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Revolutionary subjects : German literatures and the limits of aesthetic solidarity with Latin America /

Revolutionary Subjects demonstrates that East and West German literary interests in Latin America coincided with debates about the political relevance of literature in the Cold War. Through a combination of close reading, contextual analysis and careful theoretical work, Trnka examines textual insta...

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Main Author: Trnka, Jamie H. (Jamie Helene) (Author)
Other Authors: Neruda, Pablo, 1904-1973, Walsh, Donald Devenish, 1903-1980 (Translator)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Berlin ; Boston : Walter De Gruyter, [2015]
Series:Interdisciplinary German cultural studies ; v. 16.
Subjects:
German literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Latin America > In literature.
Politics in literature.
Enzensberger, Hans Magnus > Criticism and interpretation.
Braun, Volker, > 1939- > Criticism and interpretation.
Müller, Heiner, > 1929-1995 > Criticism and interpretation.
Delius, Friedrich Christian, > 1943- > Criticism and interpretation.
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Summary:Revolutionary Subjects demonstrates that East and West German literary interests in Latin America coincided with debates about the political relevance of literature in the Cold War. Through a combination of close reading, contextual analysis and careful theoretical work, Trnka examines textual instances of aesthetic solidarity, which, she argues, anticipated conceptual reorganizations of the world connoted by the transnational or the global.
Physical Description:xii, 318 pages ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9783110376227 (alk. paper)
3110376229 (alk. paper)