Contentious Memories
Subtitle: Looking Back at the GDR
Contributors: Jost Hermand (Editor); Marc Silberman (Editor)
Publisher: Peter Lang Pub Inc; Lang Publishing, Incorporated, Peter
Published: February 1998
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 251
ISBN-13: 9780820438436
Subjects: Europe - Germany; Demographic History; Germany - History - Post World War II (1945-1989); History; Cultural policy; Germany (East); Historiography; Intellectual life; Intellectuals; Socialism and culture; History: World
Description: Who is remembering the German Democratic Republic, and how do they go about it? This volume of "contentious memories" brings together essays and critical responses in a look back at three aspects of GDR studies. It presents an opportunity for self-reflection on German Studies' past and ongoing engagement with the GDR and post-unification transformations. It seeks to evaluate old questions and raises new ones concerning the historical knowledge of GDR culture and our interpretations of it.

Finally, it examines blindspots and self-deceptions of the past as well as those forming all too quickly in the present.