Title: Inscription and Rebellion: Illness and the Symptomatic Body in East German Literature.
Series: Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture
Price: £19.99
Author: Klocke, Sonja E.
ISBN: 978-1-64014-055-4 Binding: Paperback Hardback    
Pub Date: 201903 Availability: NYP Illust:
Publisher(Imprint): Boydell & Brewer(Camden House)
           
Description: Employs research on the GDR's healthcare system along with feminist and queer theory to get at socialism's legacy, revealing a specifically East German literary convention: employment of "symptomatic female bodies" to either enforce or rebel against political and social norms.