Divided subjects, invisible borders : re-unified Germany after 1989 /

Why do those born in eastern Germany today still identify with aspects of the GDR? What do Germany's memorials, films, nostalgias, memory debates and national commemorations tell us about the lives of Germans today? 2015 marks the 25th anniversary of German re-unification. Yet Germany remains d...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Gook, Ben (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield International, 2015.
Colección:Place, memory, affect.
Temas:
Since 1990
Collective memory > Germany.
Mémoire collective > Allemagne.
HISTORY > Europe > Germany.
Collective memory
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Social aspects
Social conditions
Germany > History > Unification, 1990 > Influence.
Germany > History > Unification, 1990 > Social aspects.
Germany > Social conditions > 1990-
Allemagne > Histoire > 1990 (Réunification) > Influence.
Allemagne > Histoire > 1990 (Réunification) > Aspect social.
Allemagne > Conditions sociales > 1990-
Germany
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: just another country in Europe?
  • Part I. Another new beginning
  • End of story: Nachträglichkeit and the German past
  • The German ideology: identity, fantasy, affect
  • Part II. The past that outlived itself: nostalgia and ambivalence
  • Really-existing nostalgia: transitions, fetishes and objects
  • Disintegration and ambivalence: Berlin and Leipzig
  • Part III. The lives of Ossis on film
  • The lives of others
  • imitations of life
  • Good bye Lenin!
  • too soon, too late
  • Material
  • something is left over
  • Part IV. Remembering, commemorating
  • In the gallery: aesthetics and memory contests
  • In the street: commemoration and interpassivity
  • Conclusion: another new ending.

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