The GDR Remembered : Representations of the East German State since 1989 /: Representations of the East German State since 1989. (2011)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Nick Hodgin, Pertti Ahonen, Peter Thompson, Silke Arnold-de Simine, Stefan Berger, Stuart Parkes, Thomas Ahbe, Caroline Pearce, Andreas Wagner, Anna O'Driscoll, Caroline Pearce, Günter Schlusche, Laura Bradley, Mary Fulbrook, Nick Hodgin.
• Editors: Hodgin, Nick; Pearce, Caroline
• Other Names: Ahonen, Pertti contributor.; Thompson, Peter contributor.; Arnold-de Simine, Silke contributor.; Berger, Stefan contributor.; Parkes, Stuart contributor.; Ahbe, Thomas contributor.; Wagner, Andreas contributor.; O'Driscoll, Anna contributor.; Pearce, Caroline contributor.; Schlusche, Günter contributor.; Bradley, Laura contributor.; Fulbrook, Mary contributor.; Hodgin, Nick contributor.
• Contents: Introduction - Nick Hodgin and Caroline Pearce; From Berlin to Prenzlau: Representations of GDR Theater in Film and Literature - Laura Bradley; Melancholy and Historical Loss: Postunification Portrayals of GDR Writers and Artists - Anna O'Driscoll; Literary Portrayals of the GDR by Non-GDR Citizens - Stuart Parkes; Screening the Stasi: The Politics of Representation in Postunification Film - Nick Hodgin; "The Spirit of an Epoch Is Not Just Reflected in Pictures and Books, but Also in Pots and Frying Pans": GDR Museums and Memories of Everyday Life - Silke Arnold-de Simine; Remapping the Wall: The Wall Memorial in Bernauer Strasse - From an Unloved Cold War Monument to a New Type of Memorial Site - Günter Schlusche; Commemorating the Berlin Wall - Pertti Ahonen; The Evolution of Memorial Sites in Mecklenburg-West Pomerania since 1990 - Andreas Wagner; An Unequal Balance? Memorializing Germany's "Double Past" since 1990 - Caroline Pearce; Living through the GDR: History, Life Stories, and Generations in East Germany - Mary Fulbrook; Competing Master Narratives: Geschichtspolitik and Identity Discourse in Three German Societies - Thomas Ahbe; "Worin noch niemand war": The GDR as Retrospectively Imagined Community - Peter Thompson; GDR Historiography after the End of the GDR: Debates, Renewals, and the Question of What Remains - Stefan Berger; Notes on the Contributors; Index
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: Rochester : Camden House
• Publication Date: 2011
• Extent: 1 online resource (310 pages)
• Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / Comparative Literature; The Cold War; Social & cultural history
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781571137715; 1571137718
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