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Title:

Twenty years on : competing memories of the GDR in postunification German culture / edited by Renate Rechtien and Dennis Tate.

Publisher:

Camden House,

Copyright Date:

2011

Description:

vi, 244 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Germany (East)--In popular culture--Congresses.
Germany (East)--In literature--Congresses.
Germany (East)--In motion pictures--Congresses.
Collective memory--Germany--Congresses.
Popular culture--Germany--Congresses.
German prose literature--20th century--History and criticism--Congresses.
German prose literature--21st century--History and criticism--Congresses.
Literature and history--Germany--History--20th century--Congresses.
Literature and history--Germany--History--21st century--Congresses.
Germany--In literature--Congresses.

Other Authors:

Rechtien, Renate.
Tate, Dennis.
Remembering the GDR and Germany's Unification Process (2009 : University of Bath)

Notes:

"This volume developed out of an interdisciplinary conference entitled "Remembering the GDR and Germany's Unification Process" held at the University of Bath in September 2009"--Acknowledgments. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Pt. I. Media constructions of 1989 and the elusiveness of the historical GDR. Visual re-productions of the Wende : the role played by television images in constituting and historicizing political events / Hilde Hoffmann -- Remembering GDR culture in postunification Germany and beyond / Stephen Brockmann -- pt. II. Challenges to the dominant discourse of the Wende. "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 Argelès -- "Der Schrei des Marsyas" : the mythic voices of the subaltern in Reinhard Jirgl's Mutter Vater Roman / Arne De Winde and Frederik Van Dam -- 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 -- pt. III. Textual memory. Mediating immediacy : historicizing the GDR by bringing it back to life in postmillennial works of fiction / Andrea Geier -- "Eine Armee wie jede andere auch"? : writers and filmmakers remember the Nationale Volksarmee / Andrew Plowman -- Matter out of place : trash and transition in Clemens Meyer's Als wir träumten / Gillian Pye -- pt. IV. Literary generations : competing perspectives. Autobiographical writing in three generations of a GDR family : Christa Wolf--Annette Simon--Jana Simon / Wolfgang Emmerich -- Accursed progenitors? : extending the generation-gap debate to GDR parents / Astrid Köhler -- Parallels and divergences in post-1989 memory discourse : a comparative review of the Slovak experience / Nadežda Zemaníková -- pt. V. Afterlives. Dances of death : a last literature from the GDR / Karen Leeder -- "Die Gegenwart war es nicht" : Irina Liebmann and the post-Wende uncanny / Catherine Smale -- One iota of difference : remembering GDR literature as socialist literature / Benjamin Robinson.

Series:

Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture

ISBN:

1571135030 (alk. paper)
9781571135032 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)709669440

LCCN:

2011022485

Locations:

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)