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Article: The Radical Subject: Social Change and the Self in Recent German Autobiography.(Review)
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- Journal of European Studies
- Article date:
- September 1, 1999
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By Andrew Plowman. (British and Irish Studies in German Language and Literature.) Bern, Berlin, Frankfurt/M, New York, Paris, Wien: Peter Lang, 1998. Pp. 168. [pounds]17.00.
This dissertation-based study explores a question which, according to its author, has been largely overlooked in criticism on the Neue Subjektivitat of the 1970s: the relationship between that movement's valorization of an apparently private literary genre, autobiography, and the anti-authoritarian theory and politics of the 1960s. Plowman's interdisciplinary approach is characterized by use of contemporary political and theoretical writing, and is most successful in examining autobiographies ...