Ostblog notes two more reviews of Rellin's book, Klar, bin ich eine Ostfrau!. Almut Schröter at Neues Deutschland is ambivalent; Barbara Bollwahn at the taz more critical:
Because you don't interrupt the women [you interview], their narratives often become excessive, tiresome, or simply flat. For example, when Jutta, who lost a lot of weight after the Wende, says, "It was great that my body showed me the border [in myself?*]." Or Greta: "What Lenin said was true: neo-liberalism will fail." You're not doing these women any favors by seeing everything about them in a positive light, giving us a 1 to 1 representation of them. And: please tell me what exactly is so surpising about the fact that east German women show their children the same Russian fairytale cartoons that they watched as children? Or that it was easier in the East to be happy because there was 'less' all around?
*not so sure about this one, Grenze meaning the wall or Grenze meaning boundary in general?
Posted by Heather at March 26, 2004 09:21 AM
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