Twenty years on
Subtitle: competing memories of the GDR in postunification German culture
By: edited by Renate Rechtien and Dennis Tate
Contributors: Remembering the GDR and Germany's Unification Process (2009 : University of Bath)
Series: Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture
Publisher: Camden House
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Rochester, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9781571135032
Subjects: Collective memory; German prose literature; Literature and history; In popular culture; History and criticism; In motion pictures; In literature; Popular culture; History
Notes: "This volume has developed out of an interdisciplinary conference held at the University of Bath in September 2009 ... entitled Remembering the GDR and Germany's Unification Process"--Text.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Pt. 1. Media constructions of 1989 and the elusiveness of the historical GDR; title: Visual re-productions of the Wende: the role played by television images in constituting and historicizing political events / Hilde Hoffmann; title: Remembering GDR culture in postunification Germany and beyond / Stephen Brockmann; title: Pt. 2. Challenges to the dominant discourse of the Wende; title: "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 Argeles; title: "Der Schrei des Marsyas": the mythic voices of the subaltern in Reinhard Jirgl's MutterVaterRoman / Arne De Winde and Frederik Van Dam; title: 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; title: Pt. 3. Textual memory; title: Mediating immediacy: historicizing the GDR by bringing it back to life in post-millennial works of fiction / Andrea Geier; title: "Eine Armee wie jede andere auch"?: writers and filmmakers remember the Nationale Volksarmee / Andrew Plowman; title: Matter out of place: trash and transition in Clemens Meyer's Als wir traumten / Gillian Pye; title: Pt. 4. Literary generations - Competing perspectives; title: Autobiographical writing in three generations of a GDR family: Christa Wolf - Annette Simon - Jana Simon / Wolfgang Emmerich; title: Accursed progenitors? extending the generation gap debate to GDR parents / Astrid Kohler; title: Parallels and divergences in post-1989 memory discourse: a comparative review of the Slovak experience / Nadezda Zemanikova; title: Pt. 5. Afterlives; title: Dances of death: a last literature from the GDR / Karen Leeder; title: "Die gegenwart war es nicht": Irina Liebmann and the post-Wende uncanny / Catherine Smale; title: One iota of difference: remembering GDR literature as socialist literature / Benjamin Robinson.