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Subject(s)

• Germany (East)—In popular culture—Congresses [Browse]
• Germany (East)—In literature—Congresses [Browse]
• Germany (East)—In motion pictures—Congresses [Browse]
• Collective memory—Germany—Congresses [Browse]
• Popular culture—Germany—Congresses [Browse]
• German prose literature—20th century—History and criticism—Congresses [Browse]
• German prose literature—21st century—History and criticism—Congresses [Browse]
• Literature and history—Germany—History—20th century—Congresses [Browse]
• Literature and history—Germany—History—21st century—Congresses [Browse]
• Germany—In literature—Congresses [Browse]

Related name

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

Series

Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture [More in this series]

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.

Bibliographic references

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.

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ISBN

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

LCCN

2011022485

OCLC

709669440

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