Legal Tender Love and Legitimacy in the East German Cultural Imagination /
John Griffith Urang.
- 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.
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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)