Dennis Tate is professor of German Literature at the University of Bath.

• Introduction: East German Autobiographical Prose: Challenging Conventional Genre DistinctionsAutobiographical Writing in the East German Context and BeyondBrigitte Reimann: The Constraints of First-Person FictionFranz Fühmann: The Deconstruction of an "Exemplary" BiographyStefan Heym: Strategies of Self-Concealment in Fictional and Autobiographical ModeGünter de Bruyn: From the "Lies" of Fiction to the "Truth" of Autobiography?Christa Wolf: "Subjective Authenticity" in Practice: An Evolving Autobiographical ProjectBibliographyIndex

A valuable addition to the growing number of studies engaged in rethinking East German literary history and reassessing the categories with which that literature is read.

Dennis Tate is professor of German Literature at the University of Bath.

• Introduction: East German Autobiographical Prose: Challenging Conventional Genre DistinctionsAutobiographical Writing in the East German Context and BeyondBrigitte Reimann: The Constraints of First-Person FictionFranz Fühmann: The Deconstruction of an "Exemplary" BiographyStefan Heym: Strategies of Self-Concealment in Fictional and Autobiographical ModeGünter de Bruyn: From the "Lies" of Fiction to the "Truth" of Autobiography?Christa Wolf: "Subjective Authenticity" in Practice: An Evolving Autobiographical ProjectBibliographyIndex

A valuable addition to the growing number of studies engaged in rethinking East German literary history and reassessing the categories with which that literature is read.

Dennis Tate is professor of German Literature at the University of Bath.

• Introduction: East German Autobiographical Prose: Challenging Conventional Genre DistinctionsAutobiographical Writing in the East German Context and BeyondBrigitte Reimann: The Constraints of First-Person FictionFranz Fühmann: The Deconstruction of an "Exemplary" BiographyStefan Heym: Strategies of Self-Concealment in Fictional and Autobiographical ModeGünter de Bruyn: From the "Lies" of Fiction to the "Truth" of Autobiography?Christa Wolf: "Subjective Authenticity" in Practice: An Evolving Autobiographical ProjectBibliographyIndex

A valuable addition to the growing number of studies engaged in rethinking East German literary history and reassessing the categories with which that literature is read.