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Legal tender : love and legitimacy in the East German cultural imagination / John Griffith Urang.

Title
Legal tender : love and legitimacy in the East German cultural imagination / John Griffith Urang.
Author
Urang, John Griffith, 1975-
Publication
Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press : Cornell University Library, 2010.

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Description
x, 224 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
Series Statement
Signale : modern German letters, cultures, and thought
Uniform Title
  • Project Muse UPCC books
  • Signale (Ithaca, N.Y.)
Subject
  • Romance fiction, German > Germany (East) > History and criticism
  • German fiction > Germany (East) > History and criticism
  • Romance films > Germany (East) > History
  • Love in literature
  • Love in motion pictures
  • Love > Social aspects > Germany (East)
  • Roman
  • Film
  • Liebe <Motiv>
  • Germany (East) > Civilization
  • Deutschland <DDR>
Genre/Form
  • Criticism, interpretation, etc.
  • History
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Introduction : Eros and exchange -- Wares of love : socialist romance and the commodity -- Love, labor, loss : modes of romance in the East German novel of arrival -- Corrective affinities : love, class, and the propagation of socialism -- W(h)ither Eros? : gender trouble in the GDR, 1975/1989 -- Eye contact : surveillance, perversion, and the last days of the GDR -- Coda : a chameleon wedding.
ISBN
  • 9780801476532 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0801476534 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2010009971
OCLC
475444574
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library