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Speaking the Taboo
Paul Cooke
其他書名
A study of the work of Wolfgang Hilbig
出版BRILL, 2021-11-22
主題Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / GeneralLanguage Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / EtymologyLiterary Criticism / GeneralSocial Science / Popular CultureSocial Science / Sociology / GeneralLanguage Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / Historical & ComparativeSocial Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
ISBN90044856199789004485617
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=RhlREAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋Wolfgang Hilbig is a writer who is widely acknowledged as one of the most important to have emerged from the former GDR. In this study, the first in English, Paul Cooke explores the interplay of aesthetic and social ‘taboos’, as defined by the official discourse of the GDR, in a cross-section of Hilbig’s critical writing, poetry and prose. The protagonists in Hilbig’s texts suffer from a profound crisis of identity due to the disparity between the state’s official presentation of life in the East and their own experience. Cooke argues that through their exploration of the ‘taboo’, i.e. that which is excluded from the state’s official discourse, Hilbig’s characters attempt to break through the banal rhetoric of the ruling elite in order to realise an authentic sense of self.