Remembering and Rethinking the GDR [electronic resource] : Multiple Perspectives and Plural Authenticities /
Saunders, A.editor.
Pinfold, D.editor.
Exploring the ways in which the GDR has been remembered since its demise in 1989/90, this volume asks how memory of the former state continues to shape contemporary Germany. Its contributors offer multiple perspectives on the GDR and offer new insights into the complex relationship between past and present.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Introduction: 'Wissen wie es war'?; Part I: Theoretical Reflections; 1 The GDR and the Memory Debate; 2 Selective Memory: Channelling the Past in Post-GDR Society; Part II: Narrative Frameworks of Memory; 3 Reframing Antifascism: Greta Kuckhoff as Author, Commentator and Critic; 4 Community and Genre: Autobiographical Rememberings of Stasi Oppression; 5 Doppelgänger in Post-Wende Literature: Klaus Schlesinger's Trug and Beyond; Part III: Beyond Nostalgia
6 'Ostalgie doesn't fit!': Individual Interpretations of and Interaction with Ostalgie7 Reflective Nostalgia and Diasporic Memory: Composing East Germany after 1989; 8 Colour and Time in Museums of East German Everyday Life; Part IV: Past Memories for Present Concerns; 9 Memory Matters and Contexts: Remembering for Past, Present and Future; 10 The Politics of Memory in Berlin's Freiheits- und Einheitsdenkmal; 11 'We were heroes.' Local Memories of Autumn 1989: Revising the Past; Part V: Memories in Private and Public
12 Re-Imaging the Niche: Visual Reconstructions of Private Spaces in the GDR13 Memories, Secrets and Lies: The Emotional Legacy of the GDR in Christian Schwochow's Novemberkind (2008); 14 Life in the Army: Reported, Represented, Remembered; Index
Includes bibliographical references.
Exploring the ways in which the GDR has been remembered since its demise in 1989/90, this volume asks how memory of the former state continues to shape contemporary Germany. Its contributors offer multiple perspectives on the GDR and offer new insights into the complex relationship between past and present.
Communication.
Europe, Central—History.
Civilization—History.
Social history.
Historiography.
Imperialism.
Media Studies.
History of Germany and Central Europe.
Cultural History.
Social History.
Memory Studies.
Imperialism and Colonialism.