German Division As Shared Experience
Subtitle: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Postwar Everyday
Publisher: Berghahn Books, Incorporated
Published: 2019
Language: eng
Number of pages: 318
ISBN-13: 9781789202427
Subjects: Germany, history
Description: "Despite the nearly three decades since German reunification, there remains little understanding of the ways in which experiences overlapped across East-West divides. German Division as Shared Experience considers everyday life across the two Germanies, using perspectives from history, literary and cultural studies, anthropology and art history to explore how interconnections as well as fractures between East and West Germany after 1945 were experienced, lived and felt. Through its novel approach to historical method, the volume points to new understandings of the place of narrative, form and lived sensibility in shaping Germans' simultaneously shared and separate experiences of belonging during forty years of division from 1945 to 1990"--