Remembering and rethinking the GDR : multiple perspectives and plural authenticities / edited by Anna Saunders, Bangor University, UK, and Debbie Pinfold, Bristol University, UK.
"More than twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, memories of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) remain complex and controversial. As new generations come of age, not only do the political, social and cultural parameters of remembrance shift accordingly, but so too do the forms of me...
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| Other title: | Remembering and rethinking the German Democratic Republic |
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| Language: | English |
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Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY :
Palgrave Macmillan,
[2013]
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| Series: | Palgrave Macmillan memory studies.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: 'wissen wie es war'? / Anna Saunders and Debbie Pinfold
- Part I. Theoretical Reflections: 1. The GDR and the memory debate / Silke Arnold-de Simine and Susannah Radstone; 2. Selective memory: channelling the past in post-GDR society / Patricia Hogwood
- Part II. Narrative Frameworks of Memory: 3. Reframing antifascism: Greta Kuckhoff as author, commentator and critic / Joanne Sayner; 4. Community and genre: autobiographical rememberings of Stasi oppression / Sara Jones; 5. Doppelgänger in post-Wende literature: Klaus Schlesinger's Trug and beyond / Elke Gilson
- Part III. Beyond Nostalgia: 6. "Ostalgie doesn't fit": individual interpretations of and interaction with Ostalgie / Claire Hyland; 7. Reflective nostalgia and diasporic memory: composing East Germany after 1989 / Elaine Kelly; 8. Colour and time in museums of East German everyday life / Chloe Paver
- Part IV: Past Memories for Present Concerns: 9. Memory matters and contexts: remembering for past, present and future / Anselma Gallinat; 10. The politics of memory in Berlin's Freiheits- und Einheitsdenkmal / Anna Saunders; 11. "We were heroes": local memories of Autumn 1989: revising the past / Alexandra Kaiser
- Part V. Memories in Private and Public: 12. Re-imagining the niche: visual reconstructions of private spaces in the GDR / Gabriele Mueller; 13. Memories, secrets and lies: the emotional legacy of the GDR in Christian Schwochow's Novemberkind / Owen Evans; 14. Life in the army: reported, represented, remembered / Mark Allinson.