Searching for Missing Pieces around Us: Christa Wolf's The Quest for Christa T. and Ingeborg Drewitz's Who Will Defend Katrin Lambert?

How do Christa Wolf's The Quest for Christa T. and Ingeborg Drewitz's Who will Defend Katrin Lambert? construct female characters who in different ways oppose models of social participation dominant in their respective states? The two authors test the related tensions within the individual between wanting to fulfill one's social responsibilities, wanting to respond to the demands that society lays before us, while nonetheless resisting institutionally driven identity constraints and destructive expectations of conformity. In order to rethink the two main characters here, this article works with the concept of an "audit self" from recent scholarship in feminist theories of autobiography. (MM)