Postsocialist Memory In Contemporary German Culture

Author : Maria Mayr
Publisher : de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 9783110737738
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Postsocialist Memory in Contemporary German Culture written by Maria Mayr and published by de Gruyter. This book was released on 2024-07-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book aims to contribute to the new paradigm of sense-able covid-19 from and analytical perspective of different disciplines, to define and relate that kinds of multi disciplines able to provide users with relation of contextual services, to relate and analyse their dynamics and to react accordingly, in a seamless exchange of information during pandemic terms. In this context the book's main aim is to understand the complexities of society's pandemic beginning from information that is theoretically accessible from various viewpoints, through a multidisciplinary approach and in multiple contexts, both indoors and outdoors. In addition, the book will be examined in COVID-19 and later changes and transformations.

Author : Michel Mallet
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110732947
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Postsocialist Memory in Contemporary German Culture written by Michel Mallet and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2024-08-05 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholarship on Eastern Europe after 1989 often focuses narrowly on the socialist past as authoritarian, dictatorial, or totalitarian. This collection, by contrast, illuminates an additional dimension of post-socialist memory: it traces the survival of hopes and dreams born under socialism and the legacy of the unrealized alternative futures embedded within the socialist past. Looking at contemporary German-language literature, film, theater, and art, the volume analyzes reflections on everyday socialist realities as well as narratives of opposition and dissent. The texts discussed here not only revisit the past, but also challenge the present and help us imagine alternative futures. Rather than framing the unrealized futures envisioned in the pre-1989 era as failures, this collection probes post-socialist memory for its future-oriented potential to rethink issues of community, equity and equality, and late-stage capitalism. Foregrounding the complexities of Eastern European legacies also helps us reimagine the relationship between East and West both in Germany and in Europe as a whole.

Author : Amieke Bouma
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789463726610
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book German Post-socialist Memory Culture written by Amieke Bouma and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Breaking new ground in the study of post-socialist memory culture, this book explains why former GDR cadres replicate GDR memory culture against their stigmatized status in unified Germany.

Author : Daphne Berdahl
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253221706
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On the Social Life of Postsocialism written by Daphne Berdahl and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anthropologist Daphne Berdahl was one of the leading scholars of the transition from state socialism to capitalism in central and eastern Europe. From her pathbreaking ethnography of a former East German border village in the aftermath of German reunification, to her insightful analyses of consumption, nostalgia, and citizenship in the early 21st century, Berdahl's writings probe the contradictions, paradoxes, and ambiguities of postsocialism as few observers have done. This volume brings together her essays, from an early study of memory at the Vietnam War memorial in Washington, D.C., to research on consumption and citizenship undertaken in Leipzig in the years before her untimely death. It serves as a superb introduction to the development of the field of postsocialist cultural studies.

Author : Helmut Schmitz
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1351933833
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book German Culture and the Uncomfortable Past written by Helmut Schmitz and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning with the question of the role of the past in the shaping of a contemporary identity, this volumes spans three generations of German and Austrian writers and explores changes and shifts in the aesthetics of Vergangenheitsbewältigung (coming to terms with the past). The purpose of the book is to assess contemporary German literary representations of National Socialism in a wider context of these current debates. The contributors address questions arising from a shift over the last decade, triggered by a generation change-questions of personal and national identity in Germany and Austria, and the aesthetics of memory. One of the central questions that emerges in relation to the Hitler youth generation is that of biography, as examined through Günter Grass' and Martin Walser's conflicting views on the subject of National Socialism. Other themes explored here are the conflict between the post-war generations and the contributions of that conflict to (West)-German mentality, and the growing historical distance and its influence on the aesthetics of representation.

Author : A. Fuchs
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230589723
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Phantoms of War in Contemporary German Literature, Films and Discourse written by A. Fuchs and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-01-09 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Phantoms of War in Contemporary German Literature, Films and Discourse offers an up-to-date and comprehensive analysis of fundamental shifts in German cultural memory. Focusing on the resurgence of family stories in fiction, autobiography and in film, this study challenges the institutional boundaries of Germany's memory culture that have guided and arguably limited German identity debates. Essays on contemporary German literature are complemented by explorations of heritage films and museum discourse. Together these essays put forward a compelling theory of family narratives and a critical evaluation of generational discourse.

Author : Alexandra Lloyd
Publisher : Germanic Literatures
ISBN 13 : 9781781885406
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Childhood, Memory, and the Nation written by Alexandra Lloyd and published by Germanic Literatures. This book was released on 2023-01-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1990s and 2000s, at a time when newly-reunified Germany seemed to be turning towards its future, public debates were dominated by those who had spent their early lives under Nazism and were still wrestling with the past. In this wide-ranging study of autobiographical writing, fictional accounts, and film, Alexandra Lloyd examines narratives of childhood and adolescence in the Third Reich within contemporary German cultural memory. The study sheds light on the broader context of post-reunification memory politics through close readings of primary texts by Günter Grass, Günter de Bruyn, Martin Walser, Ruth Klüger, Georges-Arthur Goldschmidt, Günter Kunert, W. G. Sebald, Binjamin Wilkomirski (aka Bruno Doesseker), and Gudrun Pausewang, and filmmakers Dennis Gansel, Agnieszka Holland, and Cate Shortland. It provides a fuller picture of the way this historical experience continues to shape individual and national identity in the present. Alexandra Lloyd is Fellow by Special Election in German at St Edmund Hall, Oxford.

Author : Jessica Ortner
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1640140220
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Transcultural Memory and European Identity in Contemporary German-Jewish Migrant Literature written by Jessica Ortner and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2022 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines how German-Jewish writers from Eastern Europe who migrated to Germany during or after the Cold War have widened European cultural memory to include the traumas of the Gulag.

Author : Jenny Watson
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1640141197
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Edinburgh German Yearbook 15 written by Jenny Watson and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2022-09-20 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reconsidering the German tendency to define itself vis-à-vis an eastern Other in light of fresh debate regarding the Second World War, this volume and the cultural products it considers expose and question Germany's relationship with its imagined East.

Author : Anselma Gallinat
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1785333038
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Narratives in the Making written by Anselma Gallinat and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2016-11-01 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the three decades that have passed since the fall of the Berlin Wall, the historical narrative of East Germany is hardly fixed in public memory, as German society continues to grapple with the legacies of the Cold War. This fascinating ethnography looks at two very different types of local institutions in one eastern German state that take divergent approaches to those legacies: while publicly funded organizations reliably cast the GDR as a dictatorship, a main regional newspaper offers a more ambivalent perspective colored by the experiences and concerns of its readers. As author Anselma Gallinat shows, such memory work—initially undertaken after fundamental regime change—inevitably shapes citizenship and democracy in the present.