| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 253 pages) : illustrations |
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Palgrave Macmillan memory studies |
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Palgrave Macmillan memory studies.
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| Contents |
Introduction: 'wissen wie es war'? / Anna Saunders and Debbie Pinfold -- Part I. Theoretical Reflections: 1. The GDR and the memory debate / Silke Arnold-de Simine and Susannah Radstone; 2. Selective memory: channelling the past in post-GDR society / Patricia Hogwood -- Part II. Narrative Frameworks of Memory: 3. Reframing antifascism: Greta Kuckhoff as author, commentator and critic / Joanne Sayner; 4. Community and genre: autobiographical rememberings of Stasi oppression / Sara Jones; 5. Doppelgänger in post-Wende literature: Klaus Schlesinger's Trug and beyond / Elke Gilson -- Part III. Beyond Nostalgia: 6. "Ostalgie doesn't fit": individual interpretations of and interaction with Ostalgie / Claire Hyland; 7. Reflective nostalgia and diasporic memory: composing East Germany after 1989 / Elaine Kelly; 8. Colour and time in museums of East German everyday life / Chloe Paver -- Part IV: Past Memories for Present Concerns: 9. Memory matters and contexts: remembering for past, present and future / Anselma Gallinat; 10. The politics of memory in Berlin's Freiheits- und Einheitsdenkmal / Anna Saunders; 11. "We were heroes": local memories of Autumn 1989: revising the past / Alexandra Kaiser -- Part V. Memories in Private and Public: 12. Re-imagining the niche: visual reconstructions of private spaces in the GDR / Gabriele Mueller; 13. Memories, secrets and lies: the emotional legacy of the GDR in Christian Schwochow's Novemberkind / Owen Evans; 14. Life in the army: reported, represented, remembered / Mark Allinson |
| Summary |
"More than twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, memories of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) remain complex and controversial. As new generations come of age, not only do the political, social and cultural parameters of remembrance shift accordingly, but so too do the forms of media used to transmit these memories. This volume explores the different ways in which the GDR has been remembered since its demise in 1989/90, and asks how memory of this state continues to impact on contemporary Germany. The chapters offer multiple perspectives on the GDR, examining the way memories have been expressed in and shaped by literature, film, music, museums, monuments, historical narratives, commemorative events and everyday discourse concerning the GDR. In resisting monolithic readings of the GDR, the volume offers new insights into the complex relationship between past and present in eastern Germany"--Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Collective memory -- Germany (East)
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Memory -- Social aspects -- Germany (East)
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European history -- c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period) -- East Germany, DDR.
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Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000 -- c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period) -- East Germany, DDR.
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Germany.
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History.
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Collective memory
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Historiography
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Intellectual life
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Manners and customs
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Memory -- Social aspects
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Social aspects
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Social conditions
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Nationale identiteit.
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Herinnering.
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Politieke cultuur.
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Germany (East) -- Social life and customs
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Germany (East) -- Social conditions
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Germany (East) -- Historiography
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Germany (East) -- Intellectual life
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Germany -- History -- Unification, 1990 -- Social aspects
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Germany
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Germany (East)
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DDR.
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Saunders, Anna, 1976- editor
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Pinfold, Debbie, editor.
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| ISBN |
9781137292094 |
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1137292091 |
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9781283867795 |
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1283867796 |
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9781349347926 |
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1349347922 |
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