Article: Woman's Heterosexual experience in Christa Wolf's Kassandra: a critique of GDR feminism.(Critical Essay)

Shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, Christa Wolf was relentlessly attacked in the West German media for her publication of Was Bleibt (What Remains, 1990), a novella recounting an author's sense of persecution when spied on by the Stasi, the secret police of the former German Democratic Republic. (1) German journalists castigated Wolf for her decision to remain in East Germany, accusing her of supporting an oppressive regime--something they had long imputed to the East German intelligentsia in general--and of being too weak to criticize that regime until it no longer entailed any personal risk. (2) Needless to say, her disclosure in 1993 that she had in fact ...

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