Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. List of Abbreviations x
5. Introduction 1
6. Part 1: The Years of Division
7. 1: The Aftermath of War and the New Beginning 9
8. 2: The 1950s: The Deepening Division 27
9. 3: The 1960s: Taking Sides 43
10. 4: A West German Interlude: Writers and Politics at the Time of the Student Movement 70
11. 5: The 1970s: Writers on the Defensive 88
12. 6: The 1980s: On the Threshold 111
13. Intermezzo: Writers and the Unification Process 132
14. Part 2: Writers and Politics After Unification
15. Segue: Political and Literary Developments Since Unification 145
16. 7: East and West 150
17. 8: New Views on the Past 164
18. 9: A Swing to the Right? 180
19. Conclusion 195
20. Works Cited 203
21. Index 229