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Title:
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Inscription and Rebellion: Illness and the Symptomatic Body in East German Literature.
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Series:
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Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture, 169
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Price:
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￡75.00
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Author:
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Klocke, Sonja E.
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ISBN:
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978-1-57113-933-7
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Hardback
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Paperback
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Pub Date:
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2015
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Availability:
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A
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Publisher(Imprint):
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Boydell & Brewer(Camden House)
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Description:
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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.
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