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Author : Gisela Holfter
Publisher : Brill / Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9789004364028
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book German Reunification and the Legacy of Gdr Literature and Culture [print & E-Book] written by Gisela Holfter and published by Brill / Rodopi. This book was released on 2018-04-28 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004359788
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book German Reunification and the Legacy of GDR Literature and Culture written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-04-17 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Stephen Brockmann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521660548
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Literature and German Reunification written by Stephen Brockmann and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-10-07 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A full-length study of the literary consequences of German reunification.

Author : Karen Leeder
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316462390
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rereading East Germany written by Karen Leeder and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-01-14 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Renate Rechtien
Publisher : Camden House
ISBN 13 : 1571135030
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Twenty Years on written by Renate Rechtien and published by Camden House. This book was released on 2011 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Representing East Germany Since Unification written by Paul Cooke and published by . This book was released on 2005-08 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : John David Pizer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110725037
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ambivalent Literary Farewells to the German Democratic Republic written by John David Pizer and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-08-02 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Margy Gerber
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Studies in GDR Culture and Society written by Margy Gerber and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Carol Anne Costabile-Heming
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110880407
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Textual Responses to German Unification written by Carol Anne Costabile-Heming and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-07-05 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Erica Carter
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1805393588
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book German Division as Shared Experience written by Erica Carter and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2019-06-06 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the nearly three decades since German reunification, there remains little understanding of the ways in which experiences overlapped across East-West divides. German Division as Shared Experience considers everyday life across the two Germanies, using perspectives from history, literary and cultural studies, anthropology and art history to explore how interconnections as well as fractures between East and West Germany after 1945 were experienced, lived and felt. Through its novel approach to historical method, the volume points to new understandings of the place of narrative, form and lived sensibility in shaping Germans’ simultaneously shared and separate experiences of belonging during forty years of division from 1945 to 1990.