Legal tender : love and legitimacy in the East German cultural imagination / John Griffith Urang.
At first glance, romance seems an improbable angle from which to write a cultural history of the German Democratic Republic. By most accounts the GDR was among the most dour and disciplined of socialist states, so devoted to the rigors of Stalinist aesthetics that the notion of an East German romant...
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Ithaca, N.Y. :
Cornell University Press : Cornell University Library,
2010.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : Eros and exchange
- Wares of love : socialist romance and the commodity
- Love, labor, loss : modes of romance in the East German novel of arrival
- Corrective affinities : love, class, and the propagation of socialism
- W(h)ither Eros? : gender trouble in the GDR, 1975/1989
- Eye contact : surveillance, perversion, and the last days of the GDR
- Coda : a chameleon wedding.