Politics of the Self: Feminism and the Postmodern in West German Literature and Film

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Richard McCormick examines the concepts of postmodernity and postmodernism as they apply to West Germany, discussing them against the background of cultural and political upheaval in that country since the 1960s, rather than exclusively in the more familiar setting of intellectual history. Considering six literary and cinematic texts that are marke

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"This is a most comprehensive and insightful account of major developments in West German culture since the 1960s. Film and literature studies often remain in isolation from each other. McCormick brings them together, and his interpretations gather force through their contextual framing. What I particularly like about the book is that it makes significant connections between American and German culture."Andreas Huyssen, Columbia University
"Richard McCormick argues convincingly for a fundamentally historical understanding of postmodernism in literature and in culture in generala postmodernism resulting in large part from the increasing influence of feminism in West German cultural life. The historical examination of the New Left and its shifting view of the `politics of the self' is especially impressive, as is the analysis of the relationship between aesthetics and politics in the post-1968 period."Patrice Petro, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee