Phantom Images: The Figure of the Ghost in the Work of Christa Wolf and Irina Liebmann

Catherine Smale

Phantom Images
The Figure of the Ghost in the Work of Christa Wolf and Irina Liebmann

Catherine Smale

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Christa Wolf (1929-2011), German novelist

Irina Liebmann (1943-), German novelist and poet

Bithell Series of Dissertations 41

MHRA Texts and Dissertations 97

Modern Humanities Research Association and the Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies

27 September 2013 • 196pp

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Ghosts have made an unexpected reappearance in post-unification German literature. Catherine Smale reads this as symptomatic of writers’ attempts to renegotiate their personal and collective identity following the loss of the former East German state. Focusing on the recent work of Christa Wolf and Irina Liebmann, Smale outlines the ways in which these writers adopt notions of haunting in their engagement with the double legacy of National Socialism and the GDR.

The ghost has long been regarded as a vehicle for making manifest taboo or unauthorized memories. However, Smale goes further, demonstrating how the human subject is destabilized by the return of the phantom and is itself rendered insecure and spectral. Drawing on a wide range of theoretical references, from psychoanalytic notions of intergenerational phantoms to Derridean hauntology, Smale’s close reading of these texts highlights the particular challenge they pose to the familiar understanding of Vergangenheitsbewältigung.

Catherine Smale is Lecturer in German at King’s College London.

Contents:

i-iv	Front Matter Catherine Smale doi:10.2307/j.ctt4cg91s.1	Cite
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v-vi	Table of Contents Catherine Smale doi:10.2307/j.ctt4cg91s.2	Cite
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vii-viii	Acknowledgements C. S. doi:10.2307/j.ctt4cg91s.3	Cite
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ix-ix	Abbreviations Catherine Smale doi:10.2307/j.ctt4cg91s.4	Cite
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x-x	List of Illustrations Catherine Smale doi:10.2307/j.ctt4cg91s.5	Cite
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1-33	Introduction Catherine Smale doi:10.2307/j.ctt4cg91s.6	Cite
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34-55	Chapter 1 Phantom Images: Christa Wolf’s Was Bleibt Catherine Smale doi:10.2307/j.ctt4cg91s.7	Cite
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56-81	Chapter 2 ‘Abschied Von Phantomen’? Christa Wolf’s Leibhaftig Catherine Smale doi:10.2307/j.ctt4cg91s.8	Cite
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82-111	Chapter 3 Spectral Images: Irina Liebmann’s Stille Mitte Von Berlin Catherine Smale doi:10.2307/j.ctt4cg91s.9	Cite
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112-142	Chapter 4 ‘Lebendige Bilder’: Irina Liebmann’s in Berlin Catherine Smale doi:10.2307/j.ctt4cg91s.10	Cite
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143-168	Chapter 5 A Haunting Legacy: Irina Liebmann’s Die Freien Frauen Catherine Smale doi:10.2307/j.ctt4cg91s.11	Cite
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169-172	Conclusion Catherine Smale doi:10.2307/j.ctt4cg91s.12	Cite
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173-185	Bibliography Catherine Smale doi:10.2307/j.ctt4cg91s.13	Cite
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186-194	INDEX Catherine Smale doi:10.2307/j.ctt4cg91s.14	Cite
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Phantom ImagesThe Figure of the Ghost in the Work of Christa Wolf and Irina Liebmann

Catherine Smale

Phantom Images
The Figure of the Ghost in the Work of Christa Wolf and Irina Liebmann