What Remains: Responses to the Legacy of Christa Wolf

CONTENTS
ILLUSTRATIONS
INTRODUCTION
Part I. Patterns of Memory: The Trauma of the Forgotten
Chapter 1. “Faraway So Close”: Transcultural Memory as Christa Wolf ’s “Last Word”
Chapter 2. Who’s Afraid of Christa Wolf or The Overcoat of Dr. Freud: Memory and Its Discontents
Chapter 3. Fetishism or Working Through? Concerning the Role of Dr. Freud in City of Angels or, The Overcoat of Dr. Freud
Part II. Christa Wolf as a Writer of Time and Her Times
Chapter 4. The Notion of Heimat in Christa Wolf ’s Patterns of Childhood
Chapter 5. Writing the Self: Literary Vergegenwärtigung in Christa Wolf ’s Patterns of Childhood and City of Angels or, The Overcoat of Dr. Freud
Chapter 6. The Heterochronic Narrative of Christa Wolf
Chapter 7. Subjective Authenticity as Realism: Christa Wolf and Georg Lukács
Part III. Christa Wolf in the Public Sphere
Chapter 8. To Be Recognized Again: Memory, Amnesia, and Sincerity in Christa Wolf
Chapter 9. “Was bleibt aber, stiften die Dichter”: Christa Wolf ’s Contested Role as Spokesperson for Generations of Readers and Women Writers
Chapter 10. “This Is No Longer My World”: The Multiple Alienations of Christa Wolf
Part IV. Illness, Anxiety, and Trauma
Chapter 11. “To Follow the Trail of Pain”: Coming to Terms with the Past in Christa Wolf ’s In the Flesh
Chapter 12. Deliberating the “ängstliche Margarete”: Coping with Anxiety in Christa Wolf ’s City of Angels or, the Overcoat of Dr. Freud
Chapter 13. Coming Full Circle: Trauma, Empathy, and Writing in “Change of Perspective” (“Blickwechsel,” 1970) and “August” (2011)
Part V. Christa Wolf and the Visual Arts
Chapter 14. A Woman’s Voice on Screen: Christa Wolf and the Cinema
Chapter 15. Women at the Edge of a Nervous Breakdown: The Berlin Wall and the Collapse of Female Consciousness in Divided Heaven and Good Bye, Lenin!
Chapter 16. The Impact of Christa Wolf ’s Cassandra on Women Artists in East Germany
INDEX