Presentation of essay volume marks longstanding relationship with Dutch publisher Rodopi
3 January 2013
— Prof Axel Goodbody, Dr David Clarke, Prof Ian Wallace, Prof Dennis Tate, Dr Steve Wharton and Dr Renate Rechtien.
A collection of essays on East German autobiographical writing was presented to Emeritus Professor Dennis Tate at a book launch at the University of Bath sponsored by the publisher on Friday 14 December 2012.
The 18 contributions to the volume, which was edited by Dr David Clarke and Professor Axel Goodbody, were written in response to Dennis Tate’s last monograph: Shifting Perspectives. East German Autobiographical Narratives Before and After the End of the GDR (2007).
The event, which took place at the close of a conference on ‘Shifting German and East European Landscapes: Place and Cultural Hybridity’, organised by Dr David Galbreath and Dr Renate Rechtien, was attended by 40 conference participants, members of department staff, and former colleagues of Professor Tate from the Universities of Birmingham, Bristol, Exeter and Reading.
The publishing house, Editions Rodopi B.V., was represented by Acquisitions Editor Masja Horn, who is responsible for the German Monitor series, of which this volume, The Self in Transition: East German Autobiographical Writing Before and After Unification, is the 75th number. The volume examines the invention and re-invention of the self in response to historical change, analysing how authors have negotiated social transition in the East German context.
Emeritus Professor Ian Wallace, founder of the series in 1979 and commissioning editor of the first 70 volumes, was among those present.
The event marked the longstanding links with the publishing house Rodopi of members of the Department of Department of Politics, Languages & International Studies (David Clarke, Axel Goodbody, Renate Rechtien, Karoline von Oppen, Dennis Tate, Ian Wallace), who have served as Series Editors of the ‘German Monitor’ and ‘Nature, Culture and Literature’ series, as authors or editors of some 20 individual volumes in these and other Rodopi series including the ‘Amsterdamer Beiträge zur neueren Germanistik’ and the ‘Yearbook of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies’, and as contributors to numerous other volumes.
