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Camden House
Language
English
Pages
254

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Twenty Years On: Competing Memories of the GDR in Postunification German Culture
2011, Boydell & Brewer, Incorporated
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Table of Contents

Pt. 1. Media constructions of 1989 and the elusiveness of the historical GDR
Visual re-productions of the Wende: the role played by television images in constituting and historicizing political events / Hilde Hoffmann
Remembering GDR culture in postunification Germany and beyond / Stephen Brockmann
Pt. 2. Challenges to the dominant discourse of the Wende
"Das waren wir nicht!": the image of East Germans and the GDR as a narrative problem after 1989 in Klaus Schlesinger's Die Sache mit Randow / Daniel Argeles
"Der Schrei des Marsyas": the mythic voices of the subaltern in Reinhard Jirgl's MutterVaterRoman / Arne De Winde and Frederik Van Dam
An early challenge to the construction of cross-border romance in post-1989 film: Andreas Dresen's So schnell es geht nach Istanbul / Rosemary Stott
Pt. 3. Textual memory
Mediating immediacy: historicizing the GDR by bringing it back to life in post-millennial works of fiction / Andrea Geier
"Eine Armee wie jede andere auch"?: writers and filmmakers remember the Nationale Volksarmee / Andrew Plowman
Matter out of place: trash and transition in Clemens Meyer's Als wir traumten / Gillian Pye
Pt. 4. Literary generations - Competing perspectives
Autobiographical writing in three generations of a GDR family: Christa Wolf - Annette Simon - Jana Simon / Wolfgang Emmerich
Accursed progenitors? extending the generation gap debate to GDR parents / Astrid Kohler
Parallels and divergences in post-1989 memory discourse: a comparative review of the Slovak experience / Nadezda Zemanikova
Pt. 5. Afterlives
Dances of death: a last literature from the GDR / Karen Leeder
"Die gegenwart war es nicht": Irina Liebmann and the post-Wende uncanny / Catherine Smale
One iota of difference: remembering GDR literature as socialist literature / Benjamin Robinson.

Edition Notes

"This volume has developed out of an interdisciplinary conference held at the University of Bath in September 2009 ... entitled Remembering the GDR and Germany's Unification Process"--Text.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Rochester, N.Y
Series
Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture

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Dewey Decimal Class
943/.1087
Library of Congress
DD281.6 .T94 2011, DD281.6.T94 2011

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Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
254

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Open Library
OL25287713M
ISBN 10
1571135030
ISBN 13
9781571135032
LCCN
2011022485
OCLC/WorldCat
709669440

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