5 The Paternal Family Narrative as Autobiography and as Parable: Christa Wolf's Kindheitsmuster and Kassandra

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Critical Orthodoxies: Toward a New Reading of East German Literature 1
5. I In the Name of the Father: East Germany's Foundational Narratives
6. 1 Specters of Stalin, or Constructing Communist Fathers 25
7. 2 Stalinist Motherhood, or the Hollow Spaces of Emotion: Netty Reiling/Anna Seghers 64
8. II Mapping the Oedipal Story onto Post-Fascist Socialism: New FamiliesfNew Bodies
9. 3 The Past in the Present: Sons, Daughters, and the Fantasy of Post-Fascist Bodies 105
10. III Inscribing the Daughter in the Paternal Narrative
11. 4 Post-Fascist Body/Post-Fascist Voice: Christa Wolf's Moskauer Novelle and Der geteilte Himmel 137
12. 5 The Paternal Family Narrative as Autobiography and as Parable: Christa Wolf's Kindheitsmuster and Kassandra 198
13. History as Trauma 251
14. Notes 257
15. Works Cited 331
16. Index 361