Domestic disputes : examining discourses of home and property in the former East Germany / Necia Chronister.
Domestic Disputes is the first monograph in German studies to offer a critical examination of the home ownership crisis in the former East Germany that resulted from unification policy, taking as its focus news media, made-for-television movies, cinematic releases, and prose fiction that depict prop...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Berlin ; Boston :
De Gruyter,
[2021]
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| Series: | Interdisciplinary German cultural studies ;
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| Summary: | Domestic Disputes is the first monograph in German studies to offer a critical examination of the home ownership crisis in the former East Germany that resulted from unification policy, taking as its focus news media, made-for-television movies, cinematic releases, and prose fiction that depict property disputes between former East and West Germans. In the cultural productions discussed in this book, anxieties about social disenfranchisement through unification policy are dramatized in narratives in which Westerners acquire, or attempt to acquire, property in the former East Germany. Each chapter addresses a different type of narrative that has emerged to frame those anxieties, including those of neocolonial Western takeover, the engagement with difficult family histories, masculinity crises in the West, and the corporatization of home. Domestic Disputes is the first book-length study to outline the way in which homes were awarded to individuals and families as the former East Germany privatized and to offer in-depth examinations of the narratives that emerged from that social phenomenon. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 3110673975 9783110674002 3110674009 9783110673357 3110673355 9783110673975 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Online version (EBSCOhost); title from e-pub title page (viewed on February 10, 2021) |