Chapter 2 Europe in East Berlin: Emine Sevgi Özdamar’s Ostalgic Constructions

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Acknowledgements VII
4. A Note on Translations IX
5. Introduction 1
6. Chapter 1 Literary Resistance to Reunification Perceived as Colonization in Novels by Günter Grass, Christa Wolf, and Volker Braun 25
7. Chapter 2 Europe in East Berlin: Emine Sevgi Özdamar’s Ostalgic Constructions 61
8. Chapter 3 Non-Simultaneity and its Corrective: Thomas Brussig’s Ambivalent Engagement with Reunification 84
9. Chapter 4 Performing Reunification as Tragicomedy: Ingo Schulze 107
10. Chapter 5 Time out of Joint in Uwe Tellkamp’s The Towe 138
11. Coda: Contra Grass: The Embrace of Reunification by Martin Walser, Monika Maron, and Fritz Rudolf Fries as well as the Beginning of the End of Autobiographical Literary Farewells to the GDR 161
12. Bibliography 181
13. Index 193