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German division as shared experience : interdisciplinary perspectives on the postwar everyday /

"Despite the nearly three decades since German reunification, there remains little understanding of the ways in which experiences overlapped across East-West divides. German Division as Shared Experience considers everyday life across the two Germanies, using perspectives from history, literary...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Carter, Erica (Editor), Palmowski, Jan (Editor), Schreiter, Katrin (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Berghahn Books, 2019.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: German division as shared experience / Erica Carter, Jan Palmowski and Katrin Schreiter
  • Narrating the everyday : television, memory and the subjunctive in the GDR, 1969-89 / Jan Palmowski
  • Tension of Germanness in the Global South : German immigration in Namibia / Heidi Armbruster
  • "Ich bin parteilich, subjektiv und emotional" : Eigensinn and the narrative (re)construction of political agency in Inge Viett's Nie war ich furchtloser / Katharina Karcher
  • Asymmetrical (be)longing : villagers, spatial practices and the German "other" / Marcel Thomas
  • Everyday displacements in Cold War Berlin : short prose from East and West / Aine McMurtry
  • DEFA's "home-made" experiment : traces of GDR reality and international avant-garde film in Jurgen Bottcher's Transformations (1981) / Franziska Nossig
  • Style identities and individualization in 1980s East and West Germany / Alissa Bellotti
  • Cultivating the past : the Schrebergarten as a political space in postwar German literature / Katrin Schreiter
  • Painting in East Germany : an elite art for the everyday (and everyone) / April A. Eisman
  • The perceptual fabric and everyday practices of jazz and pop in East and West Germany / Michael J. Schmidt
  • Alles Geschmackssache? Shaping (gustatory) tastes in East and West Germany / Alice Weinreb
  • Conclusion / Erica Carter, Jan Palmowski, Katrin Schreiter.