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Twenty years on : competing memories of the GDR in postunification German culture /
"Twenty years on from the dramatic events that led to the opening of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the GDR, the subjective dimension of German unification is still far from complete. The nature of the East German state remains a matter of cultural as well as political debate. This volume...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico Congresos, conferencias eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Rochester, N.Y. :
Camden House,
©2011.
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| Colección: | Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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 Mutter Vater Roman / 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.