Nature, Power and Literature: Rereading Christa Wolf’s Störfall. Nachrichten eines Tages as ‘Ecological Force’ in Times of Climate Crisis

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Table of Contents V
3. A Note on Translations VII
4. Introduction: Reading Christa Wolf in the Twenty-First Century 1
5. Modernity and the City in Christa Wolf’s Oeuvre of the 1960s 35
6. Narrative Topographies in Christa Wolf’s Oeuvre 51
7. The Gendered Reception of Christa Wolf 65
8. Unearthing a Post-Humanist Ecological Socialism in Christa Wolf’s ‘Selbstversuch’, Kassandra and Störfall 81
9. Nature, Power and Literature: Rereading Christa Wolf’s Störfall. Nachrichten eines Tages as ‘Ecological Force’ in Times of Climate Crisis 97
10. Literature and Visual Art in Christa Wolf’s Sommerstück (1989) and Was bleibt (1990) 113
11. Learning from the Underground: Christa Wolf and the Fourth Generation of GDR Writers 131
12. From Pan-German Cosmopolitanism to Nostalgic National Insularity: A Comparative Study of Christa Wolf’s Kassandra and Medea 147
13. Christa Wolf’s Trouble with Race 163
14. Towards a Late Style? Christa Wolf on Old Age, Death and Creativity in Stadt der Engel oder The Overcoat of Dr. Freud 181
15. The Protocol of Barriers to Thinking? Wolf’s Moskauer Tagebücher. Wer wir sind und wer wir waren (2014) 201
16. Translating Subjective Authenticity from Christa T. to Stadt der Engel and August: Re-presenting Christa Wolf’s Subaltern Voice 219
17. From Political-Realistic Reading to Multiperspectival Understanding: The Reception of Christa Wolf’s Der geteilte Himmel in China 243
18. Reading Christa Wolf in Socialist Vietnam 263
19. Christa Wolf: A Select Bibliography 279
20. Contributors 293
21. Index 295