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Legal Tender

Urang, John Griffith, 1975-

Legal Tender Love and Legitimacy in the East German Cultural Imagination / [electronic resource] : John Griffith Urang. - Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press : Cornell University Library, 2010. - 1 online resource (x, 224 p. :) ill. ; - Signale : modern German letters, cultures, and thought . - Signale (Ithaca, N.Y.) Book collections on Project MUSE. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Open Access

9780801460067 0801460069




Love--Social aspects--Germany (East)
Love in motion pictures.
Love in literature.
Romance films--History.--Germany (East)
German fiction--History and criticism.--Germany (East)
Love stories, German--History and criticism.--Germany (East)


Germany (East)--Civilization.


Electronic books.

PT3723.5.L6 / U73 2010

843/.085090914