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Author Kouroshi, Yahya

Title Alternative Modernen : Literatur in autoritären Regimen : Simin Daneshvar - Merce Rodoreda - Christa Wolf / Yahya Kouroshi
Published Bielefeld : Transcript, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (223 pages)
Series Lettre (Transcript (Firm))
Lettre (Transcript (Firm))
Contents Frontmatter -- INHALT -- DANKSAGUNG -- EINLEITUNG. MODERNE: UNVOLLENDET ODER MULTIPEL? -- ERSTE MOMENTAUFNAHME: IRAN UNTER DER SCHAH-REGIERUNG -- ZWEITE MOMENTAUFNAHME: SPANIEN UNTER DER FRANCO-REGIERUNG -- DRITTE MOMENTAUFNAHME: DIE DDR UNTER DER SOZIALISTISCHEN EINHEITSPARTEI-REGIERUNG -- SCHLUSSBETRACHTUNG. -- BIBLIOGRAFIE -- Backmatter
Summary In this book, the politics and poetics of cultures in the 1960s literary works of three renowned authors are examined: Savushun, Drama der Trauer by Simin Daneshvar (Iran), La Plaça del Diamant by Rodoreda (Spain), and Der geteilte Himmel by Christa Wolf (GDR). Based on these shared stories from under the authoritarian regimes of the Shah, General Franco and the communist authorities in East Germany, Yahya Kouroshi illuminates the subject of modernity from a cross-cultural perspective and traces the diverse developments from and alternatives to this global cultural and social phenomenon
Notes Dissertation
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
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Subject Dānishvar, Sīmīn, 1921-2012 -- Political and social views
Rodoreda, Mercè, 1908-1983 -- Political and social views
Wolf, Christa -- Political and social views
SUBJECT Dānishvar, Sīmīn, 1921-2012 fast
Rodoreda, Mercè, 1908-1983 fast
Wolf, Christa fast
Subject Politics and literature.
Authors -- Political and social views.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
TRAVEL -- Special Interest -- Literary.
Authors -- Political and social views
Political and social views
Politics and literature
Politik Motiv
Autoritärer Staat Motiv
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9783839426227
3839426227