Title: Contentious Memories
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.
Subjects: Intellectuals, Historiography, Socialism and culture, Cultural policy, Intellectual life, Germany, history, Germany, intellectual life, Germany, historiography, Germany, politics and government, Intellectuals, germany