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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