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Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 2018-04-17 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9004359788 |
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This collection of academic articles and personal reflections explores German reunification and the legacy of GDR literature and culture. It examines a broad range of genres and combines perspectives on both lesser-known and more established writers.
Author | : Gisela Holfter |
Publisher | : Brill / Rodopi |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2018-04-28 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9789004364028 |
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This collection of academic articles and personal reflections explores German reunification and the legacy of GDR literature and culture. It examines a broad range of genres and combines perspectives on both lesser-known and more established writers.
Author | : Karen Leeder |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 279 |
Release | : 2016-01-14 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1316462390 |
Download Rereading East Germany Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This volume is the first to address the culture of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) as a historical entity, but also to trace the afterlife of East Germany in the decades since the fall of the Berlin Wall. An international team of outstanding scholars offers essential and thought-provoking essays, combining a chronological and genre-based overview from the beginning of the GDR in 1949 to the unification in 1990 and beyond, with in-depth analysis of individual works. A final chapter traces the resonance of the GDR in the years since its demise and analyses the fascination it engenders. The volume provides a 'rereading' of East Germany and its legacy as a cultural phenomenon free from the prejudices that prevailed while it existed, offering English translations throughout, a guide to further reading and a chronology.
Author | : Stephen Brockmann |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 1999-10-07 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0521660548 |
Download Literature and German Reunification Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A full-length study of the literary consequences of German reunification.
Author | : Renate Rechtien |
Publisher | : Camden House |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1571135030 |
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New essays on the evolution of cultural memory of the former German Democratic Republic since 1989-90 and its importance for Germany's continuing unification process. Twenty years on from the dramatic events that led to the opening of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the GDR, the subjective dimension of German unification is still far from complete. The nature of the East German state remains a matter of cultural as well as political debate. This volume of new research focuses on competing memories of the GDR and the ways they have evolved in the mass media, literature, and film since 1989-90. Taking as its point ofdeparture the impact of iconic visual images of the fall of the Wall on our understanding of the historical GDR, the volume first considers the decade of cultural conflict that followed unification and then the emergence of a morecomplex and diverse "textual memory" of the GDR since the Berlin Republic was established in 1999. It highlights competing generational perspectives on the GDR era and the unexpected "afterlife" of the GDR in recent publications.The volume as a whole shows the vitality of eastern German culture two decades after the demise of the GDR and the centrality of these memory debates to the success of Germany's unification process. Contributors: Daniel Argelès, Stephen Brockmann, Arne De Winde, Wolfgang Emmerich, Andrea Geier, Hilde Hoffmann, Astrid Köhler, Karen Leeder, Andrew Plowman, Gillian Pye, Benjamin Robinson, Catherine Smale, Rosemary Stott, Dennis Tate, Frederik VanDam, Nadezda Zemaníková. Renate Rechtien is Lecturer in German Studies, and Dennis Tate is Emeritus Professor of German Studies, both at the University of Bath, UK.
Author | : Paul Cooke |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2005-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Download Representing East Germany Since Unification Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Cooke maps out the problematic path of German national identity as it struggles to deal with the legacy of division. Drawing on postcolonial theory, he argues that the East has been defined as the West's exotic other and shows how this stereotype has been vigorously challenged.
Author | : Carol Anne Costabile-Heming |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2013-07-05 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 3110880407 |
Download Textual Responses to German Unification Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The unification of the two German states changed the geo-political, economic, social, and cultural borders of Germany and Europe. This volume in three parts researches how East German and West German authors and directors reacted to these radical changes. The basis of this research are fictional, autobiographical, journalistic, and cinematic texts. The authors and directors presented in this volume not only comment on the changes which they themselves experienced but also voice their changing attitudes to their own past within the divided Germany.
Author | : John David Pizer |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 207 |
Release | : 2021-08-02 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 3110725037 |
Download Ambivalent Literary Farewells to the German Democratic Republic Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This study reverses the question implicit in title of Christa Wolf’s now-canonical 1990 novella Was bleibt (What remains), looking instead at what was lost during the process of German reunification. It argues that, in their work during and after the Wende, most literary authors from both East and West Germany responded ambivalently to the reunification. Many felt, on the one hand, a keen sense of loss as the GDR dissolved and an expanded Federal Republic summarily absorbed former Eastern Germany. They mourned the ideals of democratic socialism, tolerance, and internationalism that the GDR had held dear, as well as the country’s rich cultural life. On the other hand, however, they recognized that the GDR was a fundamentally corrupt surveillance state whose industry weighed heavily on the environment while failing to buoy the country’s economy. By looking at works by some of the most important authors from either side of the border, this study shows that those who unequivocally embraced the reunification were clearly in the minority.
Author | : Silke Arnold-de Simine |
Publisher | : Peter Lang |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9783039102976 |
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This essay collection examines the dynamics of memory organization and the way it varies among different media and modes of discourse in post-unification Germany. German unification has put the post-war period into a historical perspective. Such a rupture raises questions concerning the appropriate commemoration, preservation and reinterpretation of the past. The processes of reorientation after unification influenced the self-perception of literary authors as well as the social role, position and status of German literature. They also affected the way writers viewed the competition in which they found themselves pitted against visual and electronic media as rival windows on the past. In the context of several debates on German literature during the 1990s the discussion revolved not only around the adequate aesthetic representation of the historical and cultural heritage but even more so around the role of literature itself in that process. The contributions look at different discourses that were and still are concerned with reinterpreting and creating new collective symbols and narrative patterns in relation to Germany's past. The volume focuses on the effects of the characteristic discourses of the press, literature and its different genres, film, the internet and memorials on the depiction and performance of memories.
Author | : Sonja E. Klocke |
Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1571139338 |
Download Inscription and Rebellion Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Employs research on the GDR's healthcare system along with feminist and queer theory to get at socialism's legacy, revealing a specifically East German literary convention: employment of symptomatic female bodies to either enforce or rebel against political and social norms.