Contents

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. 1: Disease, Death, and Desires Pre-1989: Christa Wolf’s Symptomatic GDR Bodies 34
6. 2: Christa Wolf’s Goodbye to Socialism?: Illness, Healing, and Faith since 1990 72
7. 3: Retrospective Imagination in Post-GDR Literature: Gender, Violence, and Politics in Medical Discourses 114
8. 4: Haunted in Post-Wall Germany: Sickness, Symptomatic Bodies, and the Specters of the GDR 155
9. Conclusion 188
10. Glossary 197
11. Bibliography 199
12. Index 233