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Narratives in the Making : Writing the East German Past in the Democratic Present /

Despite the three decades that have passed since the fall of the Berlin Wall, the historical narrative of East Germany is hardly fixed in public memory, as German society continues to grapple with the legacies of the Cold War. This fascinating ethnography looks at two very different types of local i...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Gallinat, Anselma (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2016]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Questions of Discourse, Narrative, and Memory after Fundamental Regime Change
  • Chapter One. Remembering East Germany in the United Nation: The Second German Dictatorship and Dual History
  • Chapter Two. Institutions That Write Memory: The Working Group Aufarbeitung and the Daily Paper Introduced
  • Chapter Three. Debating the Past at the Daily Paper: The East German Border Regime
  • Chapter Four. Ordering Memory for Government: Everyday Life in East Germany
  • Chapter Five. What Makes an Aufarbeiter and a Journalist?
  • Chapter Six. Democracy in Trouble: Remembering to Safeguard the Future
  • Chapter Seven. Memory for Citizenship: The Trouble with Democracy
  • Conclusion
  • Glossary
  • Bibliography
  • Index