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Women's Writing and Historiography in the GDR. By HELEN BRIDGE. (Oxford Modern Languages and Literature Monographs) Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2002. viii+280 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-19-925592-X (hbk).
As Helen Bridge points out in her concluding chapter, the demise of the German Democratic Republic in 1989-90 resulted in profound changes within the cultural field of both Germanies, and intensive efforts by scholars and writers alike to reassess the GDR from the point of view of history, literary history, and Alltagsgeschichte. Bridge's own work is itself an important contribution to this ongoing project. Like other recent accounts of GDR literature and its relation to politics, Women's Writing and Historiography in the GDR seeks to move away from...
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