Skip to main content
Presented to you through Paradigm Publishing Services

Berghahn Books

Visit our Partner Page See all our books
Chapter Publicly Available

CONTENTS

© 2022, Berghahn Books, New York, Oxford

© 2022, Berghahn Books, New York, Oxford

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. CONTENTS vii
  3. ILLUSTRATIONS ix
  4. INTRODUCTION 1
  5. Part I. Patterns of Memory: The Trauma of the Forgotten
  6. Chapter 1. “Faraway So Close”: Transcultural Memory as Christa Wolf ’s “Last Word” 19
  7. Chapter 2. Who’s Afraid of Christa Wolf or The Overcoat of Dr. Freud: Memory and Its Discontents 34
  8. Chapter 3. Fetishism or Working Through? Concerning the Role of Dr. Freud in City of Angels or, The Overcoat of Dr. Freud 62
  9. Part II. Christa Wolf as a Writer of Time and Her Times
  10. Chapter 4. The Notion of Heimat in Christa Wolf ’s Patterns of Childhood 71
  11. Chapter 5. Writing the Self: Literary Vergegenwärtigung in Christa Wolf ’s Patterns of Childhood and City of Angels or, The Overcoat of Dr. Freud 85
  12. Chapter 6. The Heterochronic Narrative of Christa Wolf 99
  13. Chapter 7. Subjective Authenticity as Realism: Christa Wolf and Georg Lukács 110
  14. Part III. Christa Wolf in the Public Sphere
  15. Chapter 8. To Be Recognized Again: Memory, Amnesia, and Sincerity in Christa Wolf 123
  16. Chapter 9. “Was bleibt aber, stiften die Dichter”: Christa Wolf ’s Contested Role as Spokesperson for Generations of Readers and Women Writers 136
  17. Chapter 10. “This Is No Longer My World”: The Multiple Alienations of Christa Wolf 157
  18. Part IV. Illness, Anxiety, and Trauma
  19. Chapter 11. “To Follow the Trail of Pain”: Coming to Terms with the Past in Christa Wolf ’s In the Flesh 169
  20. Chapter 12. Deliberating the “ängstliche Margarete”: Coping with Anxiety in Christa Wolf ’s City of Angels or, the Overcoat of Dr. Freud 188
  21. Chapter 13. Coming Full Circle: Trauma, Empathy, and Writing in “Change of Perspective” (“Blickwechsel,” 1970) and “August” (2011) 201
  22. Part V. Christa Wolf and the Visual Arts
  23. Chapter 14. A Woman’s Voice on Screen: Christa Wolf and the Cinema 215
  24. Chapter 15. Women at the Edge of a Nervous Breakdown: The Berlin Wall and the Collapse of Female Consciousness in Divided Heaven and Good Bye, Lenin! 232
  25. Chapter 16. The Impact of Christa Wolf ’s Cassandra on Women Artists in East Germany 244
  26. INDEX 265
Download chapter
What Remains
This chapter is in the book What Remains
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781800734975-toc

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. CONTENTS vii
  3. ILLUSTRATIONS ix
  4. INTRODUCTION 1
  5. Part I. Patterns of Memory: The Trauma of the Forgotten
  6. Chapter 1. “Faraway So Close”: Transcultural Memory as Christa Wolf ’s “Last Word” 19
  7. Chapter 2. Who’s Afraid of Christa Wolf or The Overcoat of Dr. Freud: Memory and Its Discontents 34
  8. Chapter 3. Fetishism or Working Through? Concerning the Role of Dr. Freud in City of Angels or, The Overcoat of Dr. Freud 62
  9. Part II. Christa Wolf as a Writer of Time and Her Times
  10. Chapter 4. The Notion of Heimat in Christa Wolf ’s Patterns of Childhood 71
  11. Chapter 5. Writing the Self: Literary Vergegenwärtigung in Christa Wolf ’s Patterns of Childhood and City of Angels or, The Overcoat of Dr. Freud 85
  12. Chapter 6. The Heterochronic Narrative of Christa Wolf 99
  13. Chapter 7. Subjective Authenticity as Realism: Christa Wolf and Georg Lukács 110
  14. Part III. Christa Wolf in the Public Sphere
  15. Chapter 8. To Be Recognized Again: Memory, Amnesia, and Sincerity in Christa Wolf 123
  16. Chapter 9. “Was bleibt aber, stiften die Dichter”: Christa Wolf ’s Contested Role as Spokesperson for Generations of Readers and Women Writers 136
  17. Chapter 10. “This Is No Longer My World”: The Multiple Alienations of Christa Wolf 157
  18. Part IV. Illness, Anxiety, and Trauma
  19. Chapter 11. “To Follow the Trail of Pain”: Coming to Terms with the Past in Christa Wolf ’s In the Flesh 169
  20. Chapter 12. Deliberating the “ängstliche Margarete”: Coping with Anxiety in Christa Wolf ’s City of Angels or, the Overcoat of Dr. Freud 188
  21. Chapter 13. Coming Full Circle: Trauma, Empathy, and Writing in “Change of Perspective” (“Blickwechsel,” 1970) and “August” (2011) 201
  22. Part V. Christa Wolf and the Visual Arts
  23. Chapter 14. A Woman’s Voice on Screen: Christa Wolf and the Cinema 215
  24. Chapter 15. Women at the Edge of a Nervous Breakdown: The Berlin Wall and the Collapse of Female Consciousness in Divided Heaven and Good Bye, Lenin! 232
  25. Chapter 16. The Impact of Christa Wolf ’s Cassandra on Women Artists in East Germany 244
  26. INDEX 265
Downloaded on 2.5.2026 from https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9781800734975-toc/html?lang=en
Scroll to top button