Anna Seghers' "The Man and His Name": Heimat and the Labor of Interpellation in Postwar East Germany.
Anna Seghers' first major work set in the GDR, "The Man and His Name" stages the tension between the optimistic discourse of socialist construction and the realities that Seghers encountered upon her return to Germany. The 1952 novella narrates the breakdown of Stalinist models of social identificat...
| Publicado en: | German Studies Review Vol. 30; no. 2; pp. 311 - 331 |
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Johns Hopkins University Press
May2007
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| Sumario: | Anna Seghers' first major work set in the GDR, "The Man and His Name" stages the tension between the optimistic discourse of socialist construction and the realities that Seghers encountered upon her return to Germany. The 1952 novella narrates the breakdown of Stalinist models of social identification in the face of the apathy of the postwar German population as well as the ideological rigidity of German Communist discourse, while pointing towards a more democratic mode of collectivity based in a Marxist conception of Heimat rooted in material production. |
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