Introduction. Humor and Satire as Responses to the Wende

Chapters in this book

1. i-iv i
2. Acknowledgements v
3. Table of Contents vii
4. Introduction. Humor and Satire as Responses to the Wende 1
5. Chapter 1. The Comic Survivor: Self-Irony and Defensiveness in the Post-Wende Transition 25
6. Chapter 2. The Picaresque as a Means to Reckon with the GDR 72
7. Chapter 3. Regional Identities and Family Feuds Under the Microscope of Ironic Realism 149
8. Chapter 4. Grotesque Configurations of Body, Language, and Narrative as Expressions of Trauma and Refractory Identities 196
9. Conclusion. Building an Eastern German Identity by Sustaining and Subverting Past and Present German Society 286
10. Appendices 311
11. Works Consulted 409