Gerald Fetz is Dean and Professor Emeritus, University of Montana. He has published books and articles on several German-Language writers, including Martin Walser, Thomas Bernhard, Lilian Faschinger, Franz Innerhofer, Franz Kakfa, W.G. Sebald, as well as on German historical drama and literature of the Wende. He currently serves on the Board of the German Studies Association and is the chief editor at the University of Montana Press.Patricia Herminghouse is Fuchs Professor emerita of German Studies, University of Rochester. She has written widely on German Literature since the nineteenth century, including the social contexts of women’s writing, GDR literature, and German émigré culture in nineteenth century America. Her Publications include Gender and Germanness: Cultural Productions of Nation (co-ed.) and German Literature in a New Century: Trends, Traditions, Transitions, Transformations (co-ed.).

“Overall, the volume is carefully edited and presents a range of interesting angles on Wolf’s work… no doubt it will serve as a useful resource for researchers and students of Wolf’s work and GDR culture more broadly.” • The German Quarterly

• List of IllustrationsIntroductionGerald Fetz and Patricia HerminghousePart I: Patterns of Memory: The Trauma of the ForgottenChapter 1. "Far Away So Close": Transcultural Memory as Christa Wolf's "Last Word"Silke von der EmdeChapter 2. Who's Afraid of Christa Wolf or, The Overcoat of Dr. Freud: Memory and Its DiscontentsMartina KolbChapter 3. Fetishism or Working Through? Concerning the Role of Dr. Freud in City of Angels or, The Overcoat of Dr. FreudDavid BathrickPart II: Christa Wolf as a Writer of Time  or Christa Wolf Writing Her TimesChapter 4. The Notion of Heimat in Christa Wolf's KindheitsmusterMarijke MulderChapter 5. Writing the Self: Literary Vergegenwärtigung in Christa Wolf's Patterns of Childhood and The Overcoat of Dr. FreudMark LauerChapter 6. The Heterochronic Narrative of Christa Wolf
Heike PolsterChapter 7. Subjective Authenticity as RealismRobert BlankenshipPart III: Christa Wolf in the Public SphereChapter 8. To Be Recognized Again: Memory, Amnesia, and Integrity in Christa WolfChristine KanzChapter 9. "Was bleibt aber, stiften die Dichter": Christa Wolf's Contested Role as Spokesperson for Generations of Readers and Women WritersJanine LudwigChapter 10. "This is no longer my world": The Multiple Alienations of Christa WolfDaniele ColomboPart IV: Illness, Anxiety, and TraumaChapter 11. "To Follow the Trail of Pain": Coming to Terms with the Past in Christa Wolf's In the FleshDeborah JansonChapter 12. Deliberating the "Ängstliche Margarete": Anxiety in Christa Wolf's City of Angels or, The Overcoat of Dr. FreudIvett GuntersdorferChapter 13. "Coming Full Circle": Trauma, Empathy and Writing in "Change of Perspective" ("Blickwechsel") and "August"Friederike EiglerPart V: Christa Wolf and the Visual ArtsChapter 14. A Woman's Voice on Screen: Christa Wolf and the CinemaBarton BygChapter 15. Women at the Edge of a Nervous Breakdown: The Berlin Wall and the Collapse of Female Consciousness in Divided Heaven and Good Bye Lenin!Susanne RinnerChapter 16. The Impact of Christa Wolf's Kassandra on Women Artists in East GermanyApril Eisman