German Division as Shared Experience : : Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Postwar Everyday /

German Division as Shared Experience : : Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Postwar Everyday / / ed. by Jan Palmowski, Erica Carter, Katrin Schreiter.

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 c...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2019
MitwirkendeR:
Armbruster, Heidi,
Bellotti, Alissa,
Carter, Erica,
Eisman, April A.,
Karcher, Katharina,
McMurtry, Áine,
Nössig, Franziska,
Palmowski, Jan,
Schmidt, Michael J.,
Schreiter, Katrin,
Thomas, Marcel,
Weinreb, Alice,
HerausgeberIn:
Carter, Erica,
Palmowski, Jan,
Schreiter, Katrin,
Place / Publishing House:New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2019]
©2019
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (318 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Figures
  • Acknowledgements
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction. German Division as Shared Experience
  • Chapter 1. Narrating the Everyday: Television, Memory and the Subjunctive in the GDR, 1969–1989
  • Chapter 2. Tensions of Germanness in the Global South: German Immigrants in Namibia
  • Chapter 3. ‘Ich bin parteilich, subjektiv und emotional’: Eigensinn and the Narrative (Re)Construction of Political Agency in Inge Viett’s
  • Chapter 4. Asymmetrical (Be)Longing: Villagers, Spatial Practices and the German ‘Other’
  • Chapter 5. Everyday Displacements in Cold War Berlin: Short Prose from East and West
  • Chapter 6. DEFA’s ‘Home-Made’ Experiment: Traces of GDR Reality and International Avant-Garde Film in Jürgen Böttcher’s Transformations (1981)
  • Chapter 7. Style Identities and Individualization in 1980s East and West Germany
  • Chapter 8. Cultivating the Past: The Schrebergarten as a Political Space in Postwar German Literature
  • Chapter 9. Painting in East Germany: An Elite Art for the Everyday (and Everyone)
  • Chapter 10. The Perceptual Fabric and Everyday Practices of Jazz and Pop in East and West Germany
  • Chapter 11. Alles Geschmackssache? Shaping (Gustatory) Tastes in East and West Germany
  • Conclusion
  • Index

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