Title: Twenty years on : competing memories of the GDR in postunification German culture /
Authors: Rechtien, Renate.; Tate, Dennis.
Publisher: Camden House,
Year: 2011
Subjects: Collective memory Germany Congresses.; Popular culture Germany Congresses.; German prose literature History and criticism Congresses.; German prose literature History and criticism Congresses.; Literature and history Germany History Congresses.; Literature and history Germany History Congresses.; Germany (East) In popular culture Congresses.; Germany (East) In literature Congresses.; Germany (East) In motion pictures Congresses.; Germany In literature Congresses.
Contents: Pt. I. 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. II. 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 Argelès -- "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. III. Textual memory. Mediating immediacy : historicizing the GDR by bringing it back to life in postmillennial 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 träumten / Gillian Pye -- pt. IV. 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 Köhler -- Parallels and divergences in post-1989 memory discourse : a comparative review of the Slovak experience / Nadežda Zemaníková -- pt. V. 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.