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Article: The Promised Land? Feminist Writing in the German Democratic Republic. (Book Reviews).
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- Journal of European Studies
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- March 1, 2002
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The Promised Land? Feminist Writing in the German Democratic Republic. By Lorna Martens. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2001. Pp. x + 273. $19.95.
In Irmtraud Morgner's novel Leben und Abenteuer der Trobadora Beatriz nach Zeugnissen ihrer Spielfrau Laura, the German Democratic Republic features ironically as the biblical Promised Land. Persephone grants the medieval woman poet Beatriz de Dia her wish to see future times where women would enjoy equal rights. After some 800 years of a sleep of beauty the trobadora awakens to the France of the 1968 student revolution and two years later makes her way to the land of miracles, namely the GDR. She demands ...