Dis-membering and Re-membering the GDR - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dis-membering and Re-membering the GDR write by Wendy Catherine Graham Westphal. This book was released on 2010. Dis-membering and Re-membering the GDR available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This dissertation examines the contemporary portrayal of the GDR in German "Wendeliteratur" and "Wendefilm ". Specifically, I investigate what techniques are used to claim a collective identity and how real and fictional memories are constructed and authenticated. The memory of East Germany is currently undergoing a formative process as past events are being re-evaluated in the context of a Post-Unification society. These emerging collective memories will shape the Post-Unification German identity. Based on current theoretical discussion of cultural memory (i.e., Jan and Aleida Assmann, Pierre Nora, Maurice Halbwachs) in conjunction with detailed literary analysis, I examine the complex and often ambiguous nature of these processes. Both semi-autobiographical narratives like Jana Hensel's Zonenkinder (2003) and fictional texts like Thomas Brussig's novel Sonnenallee (1999) are intended in part as stable "Identitatsangebote ", offering an identity framework for a generation of disoriented East Germans. I show, however, that through narrative instability, these texts undermine their own intentions, both creating and reflecting a volatile and insecure East German identity. Furthermore, while these and other works (like the films Good Bye, Lenin (2003) and Das Leben der Anderen (2006)) make vigorous claims to authenticity, I illustrate how they simultaneously negate these assertions by questioning the validity of personal memories and emphasizing the fluid border between fact and fiction.
Remembering the German Democratic Republic
Remembering the German Democratic Republic - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Remembering the German Democratic Republic write by D. Clarke. This book was released on 2011-11-08. Remembering the German Democratic Republic available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Memories of and attitudes to the German Democratic Republic (GDR), or East Germany, within contemporary Germany are characterized by their variety and complexity, whilst the debate over how to remember the GDR tells us a lot about how Germans see themselves and their future. This volume provides a range of international perspectives.
Remembering the German Democratic Republic
Remembering the German Democratic Republic - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Remembering the German Democratic Republic write by D. Clarke. This book was released on 2011-11-08. Remembering the German Democratic Republic available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Memories of and attitudes to the German Democratic Republic (GDR), or East Germany, within contemporary Germany are characterized by their variety and complexity, whilst the debate over how to remember the GDR tells us a lot about how Germans see themselves and their future. This volume provides a range of international perspectives.
Germany and the Imagined East
Germany and the Imagined East - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Germany and the Imagined East write by Lee M. Roberts. This book was released on 2009-01-14. Germany and the Imagined East available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. German-speaking Europe is an array of images that have emerged from varied discourses about itself and its neighbors, and “Germany and the Imagined East” revolves around the exchange of views on and in the vast construct called “the East.” The world has been divided conceptually in countless ways, but the works in this volume treat aspects of Germany as both part of and also separate from any perception of an eastern border. From the former German Democratic Republic,“East Germany,” to Österreich—whose name loses its eastern association in the English version, Austria,—the East begins within the very world of the German language. But it is also the expanse off to the right of Germany, within which essays in this collection treat such political and cultural distinctions as former Yugoslavia, Romania and Russia in Eastern Europe, or Turkey and Persia in the Near East, spreading through India to China and Japan in the Far East. With a variety of perspectives on literature, film, philosophy, architecture, music and history, these essays comprise a multidisciplinary collage that invites scholars from all departments to explore the wealth of insights German Studies has to offer on East-West relations.
Remembering and Rethinking the GDR
Remembering and Rethinking the GDR - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Remembering and Rethinking the GDR write by A. Saunders. This book was released on 2012-12-15. Remembering and Rethinking the GDR available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Exploring the ways in which the GDR has been remembered since its demise in 1989/90, this volume asks how memory of the former state continues to shape contemporary Germany. Its contributors offer multiple perspectives on the GDR and offer new insights into the complex relationship between past and present.
