Revolting Families: Toxic Intimacy, Private Politics, and Literary Realisms in the German Sixties
Carrie Smith
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Revolting Families places the literary depiction of familial and intimate relations in 1960s West Germany against the backdrop of public discourse on the political significance of the private sphere. Carrie Smith-Prei focuses on debut works by German authors considered to be part of the “new” and “black” realism movements: Dieter Wellershoff, Rolf Dieter Brinkmann, Gisela Elsner, and Renate Rasp. Each of the works by these authors uses depictions of neurosis, disgust, vertigo, or violence to elicit a reaction in readers that calls them to political, social, or ethical action.
Revolting Families thus extends the concept of negativity, which has long ... Read more
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Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
216
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
Toronto, Canada
ISBN
9781442646377
SKU
V9781442646377
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About Carrie Smith
Carrie Smith is the vice dean of the Faculty of Arts and a professor of German Studies at the University of Alberta.
Reviews for Revolting Families: Toxic Intimacy, Private Politics, and Literary Realisms in the German Sixties
‘Smith-Prei has produced a very valuable contribution to the scholarship of the body and its representation in 1960s prose and has extended important critical attention to texts that, to differing degrees, have been marginalized.’
Harry Louis Roddy
Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies vol 51:03:2015
Harry Louis Roddy
Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies vol 51:03:2015