Reconceptualizing East German Popular Literature via the Science Fiction Niche1 From: German Quarterly | Date: October 1, 2004| Author: Fritzsche, Sonja | Copyright American Association of Teachers of German, Inc. Fall 2004. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

Existing popular cultural theories of production and reader response are inadequate to describe science fiction in East Germany. The genre cannot be considered a propaganda tool of the Socialist Unity Party (SED) nor can it be interpreted wholly as a subversive genre due to its qualities of estrangement. The article first examines different assumptions regarding the "state" and the "masses," as well as "high" and "low" culture as understood by western academics and by authors and cultural off...

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