TY - BOOK ID - 67579558 TI - Post-fascist fantasies : psychoanalysis, history, and the literature of East Germany. PY - 1997 SN - 0822319632 0822319551 9780822319634 0822399784 1322047421 PB - Durham Duke university press DB - UniCat KW - Fascism and literature KW - German literature KW - Psychoanalysis and literature KW - Literature and psychoanalysis KW - Psychoanalytic literary criticism KW - Literature KW - Literature and fascism KW - History and criticism KW - Germany (East) KW - Germany (Democratic Republic, 1949- ) KW - Deutsche Demokratische Republik KW - Tyske demokratiske republik KW - Democratic German Republic KW - German Democratic Republic KW - East German Democratic Republic KW - East Germany (Democratic Republic) KW - DDR KW - Germanskai︠a︡ Demokraticheskai︠a︡ Respublika KW - Nĕmecká demokratická republika KW - NDR KW - Nimet︠s︡ʹka Demokratychna Respublika KW - GDR KW - Niemiecka Republika Demokratyczna KW - NRD KW - Német Demokratikus Köztársaság KW - NDK KW - Tyska demokratiska republiken KW - Östtyskland KW - Republica Democrată Germană KW - Repubblica democratica tedesca KW - Germany (Democratic Republic) KW - D.D.R. KW - N.D.R. KW - G.D.R. KW - N.R.D. KW - N.D.K. KW - República Democrática Alemana KW - RDA KW - R.D.A. KW - Ostdeutschland KW - Eastern Germany KW - Cộng hòa dân chủ Đức KW - Germany KW - Germany (Territory under Allied occupation, 1945-1955) KW - Germany (Territory under Allied occupation, 1945-1955 : British Zone) KW - Germany (Territory under Allied occupation, 1945-1955 : French Zone) KW - Germany (Territory under Allied occupation, 1945-1955 : Russian Zone) KW - Germany (Territory under Allied occupation, 1945-1955 : U.S. Zone) KW - Germany (West) KW - In literature. KW - History and criticism. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:67579558 AB - Post-Fascist Fantasies examines the cultural function of the novels of Communist authors in East Germany from a psychoanalytic angle. Various critics have argued that these socialist realist fictions were monolithic attempts to translate Communist dogma into the realm of aesthetics. Julia Hell argues to the contrary that they were in fact complex fictions sharing the theme of antifascism, the founding discourse of the German Democratic Republic. Employing an approach informed by Slavoj Zizek's work on the Communist's sublime body and by British psychoanalytic feminism's concern with feminine subjectivity, Hell first examines the antifascist works by exiled authors and authors tied to the resistance movement. She then strives to understand the role of Christa Wolf, the GDR's most prominent author, in the GDR's effort to reconstruct symbolic power after the Nazi period. ER -