Science Fiction Literature in East Germany

2006
Science Fiction Literature in East Germany

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  • Author: Sonja Fritzsche
  • Publisher: Peter Lang
  • ISBN: 9783039107391
  • Category : Literary Criticism
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 340

East German science fiction enabled its authors to create a subversive space in another time and place. One of the country's most popular genres, it outlined futures that often went beyond the party's official version. Many utopian stories provided a corrective vision, intended to preserve and improve upon East German communism. This study is an introduction to East German science fiction. The book begins with a chapter on German science fiction before 1949. It then spans the entire existence of the country (1949-1990) and outlines key topics essential to understanding the genre: popular literature, socialist realism, censorship, fandom, and international science fiction. An in-depth discussion addresses notions of high and low literature, elements of the fantastic and utopia as critical narrative strategies, ideology and realism in East German literature, gender, and the relation between literature and science. Through a close textual analysis of three science fiction novels, the author expands East German literary history to include science fiction as a valuable source for developing a multi-faceted understanding of the country's short history. Finally, an epilogue notes new titles and developments since the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Science Fiction Circuits of the South and East

2018
Science Fiction Circuits of the South and East

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  • Author: Anindita Banerjee
  • Publisher: Peter Lang Limited, International Academic Publishers
  • ISBN: 9781787075931
  • Category : Psychology
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 0

The first collection of its kind, this anthology documents a radically different geography and history of science fiction in the world. Focusing on the extensive cultural networks across the global South and East, the essays explore transnational networks and exchange of ideas between the Carribean, Latin America, African America, Russia, and Asia.

After the Fall of the Wall

2006-09-26
After the Fall of the Wall

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  • Author: Martin Diewald
  • Publisher: Stanford University Press
  • ISBN: 9780804779456
  • Category : History
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 420

The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 was the beginning of one of the most interesting natural experiments in recent history. The East German transition from a Communist state to part of the Federal Republic of Germany abruptly created a new social order as old institutions were abolished and new counterparts imported. This unique situation provides an exceptional opportunity to examine the central tenets of life course sociology. The empirical chapters of this book draw a comprehensive picture of life course transformation, demonstrating how the combination of life course dynamics coupled with an extraordinary pace of system change affect individual lives. How much turbulence was created by the transition and how much stability was preserved? How did the qualifications and resources acquired before 1989 influence the fortunes in the restructured economy? How did the privatization and reorganization of firms impact individuals? Did the transformation experiences differ by age/cohort and gender? How stable were social networks at work and in the family? Were personality characteristics important mediators of post-1989 success or failure or were they rather changed by them? How specific were the East German life trajectories in comparison with Poland and West-Germany?

The Pulps

2016-10-19
The Pulps

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  • Author: Jess Nevins
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN: 9781539634706
  • Category :
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 192

Much has been written about the pulps, the medium of popular fiction which began in 1896. And yet, despite the number of books and essays written about the pulps, and despite the current enthusiasm for some of the genres of literature which appeared in the pulps, a great deal of information about the pulps remains obscure, and a number of seemingly obvious questions remain unanswered-or worse, answered with misleading or inaccurate information. What were the most popular genres in the pulps? What were the most significant pulp magazines? How many pulps were published? When were the pulps' heyday? When did the pulps decline? How did the pulps compare to the dime novels, and when did the pulps supplant the dime novels?I've attempted to answer these questions and provide accurate information on the pulps in THE PULPS. I've gathered together a substantial amount of numerical information never before brought together and presented it, and with that information set out the true history of the pulps, rather than the received wisdom about them.

Born in the GDR

2016
Born in the GDR

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  • Author: Hester Vaizey
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • ISBN: 0198718748
  • Category : History
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 239

The real life stories of eight East Germans caught up in the dramatic transition from Communism to Capitalism by the fall of the Berlin Wall - and what they feel about life after the Wall.

The Iron Dream

2014-06-30
The Iron Dream

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  • Author: Norman Spinrad
  • Publisher: Gateway
  • ISBN: 0575117222
  • Category : Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 145

Norman Spinrad's 1972 alternate history, gives us both a metafictional what-if novel and a cutting satire of one of the 20th century's most evil regimes . . . In 1919, a young Austrian artist by the name of Adolf Hitler immigrated to the United States to become an illustrator for the pulp magazines and, eventually, a Hugo Award-winning SF author. This volume contains his greatest work, Lord of the Swastika: an epic post-apocalyptic tale of genetic 'trueman' Feric Jagger and his quest to purify the bloodline of humanity by ruthlessly slaughtering races of the genetically impure - a quest Norman Spinrad expertly skewers through ironic imagery and over-the-top rhetoric. Spinrad hoped to expose some unpalatable truths about much of SF and Fantasy literature and its uncomfortable relationship with fascist ideologies - an aim that was not always apparent to neo-fascist readers. In order to make his aims clear to the hard-of-understanding, Spinrad added an imaginary critical analysis by a fictional literary scholar, Homer Whipple, of New York University.

Weird Fiction Review #2

2012-03-27
Weird Fiction Review #2

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  • Author: S. T. Joshi
  • Publisher: Centipede Press
  • ISBN: 9781613470145
  • Category :
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 0

The is the second issue in a journal dedicated to Weird Fiction studies and history.

Beyond the Wall

1999
Beyond the Wall

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  • Author: Simon Marsden
  • Publisher: Little Brown GBR
  • ISBN: 9780316645386
  • Category : Germany (East)
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 128

Shortly after the Berlin Wall was dismantled in 1989, photographer Simon Marsden and author Duncan McLaren embarked on a journey of discovery through the former Communist State of East Germany, aiming to capture on film this 'lost world' that had remained hidden from the eyes of the West for almost half a century. Their travels took them through each of the five states, from the environs of Berlin into Dresden and the countryside close to the Czechoslovakian and Polish borders. Simon's stunning and moving pictures reveal a magnificent past, much of which now lies in ruins - palaces, castles, abbeys, statues and follies that have all survived the ravages of the Second World War and the ensuing neglect of over forty years. Beautiful and awe-inspiring, BEYOND THE WALL is a unique and historic photographic collection which will be published to coincide with the 10th anniversary of the dismantling of the Berlin Wall.

Re-Imagining DEFA

2016-09-01
Re-Imagining DEFA

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  • Author: Séan Allan
  • Publisher: Berghahn Books
  • ISBN: 178533106X
  • Category : Performing Arts
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 378

By the time the Berlin Wall collapsed, the cinema of the German Democratic Republic—to the extent it was considered at all—was widely regarded as a footnote to European film history, with little of enduring value. Since then, interest in East German cinema has exploded, inspiring innumerable festivals, books, and exhibits on the GDR’s rich and varied filmic output. In Re-Imagining DEFA, leading international experts take stock of this vibrant landscape and plot an ambitious course for future research, one that considers other cinematic traditions, brings genre and popular works into the fold, and encompasses DEFA’s complex post-unification “afterlife.”

Detectives, Dystopias, and Poplit

2014
Detectives, Dystopias, and Poplit

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  • Author: Bruce Campbell
  • Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
  • ISBN: 1571135936
  • Category : Literary Criticism
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 302

The first broad treatment of German genre fiction, containing innovative new essays on a variety of genres and foregrounding concerns of gender, environmentalism, and memory.