Domestic Disputes : : Examining Discourses of Home and Property in the Former East Germany / / Necia Chronister.
Domestic Disputes is the first monograph in German studies to offer a critical examination of the home ownership crisis in the former East Germany that resulted from unification policy, taking as its focus news media, made-for-television movies, cinematic releases, and prose fiction that depict prop...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2021 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2021] ©2021 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Interdisciplinary German Cultural Studies ,
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (X, 223 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- Introduction Home in the East
- Chapter 1 Home in the East as a Bureaucratic Nightmare: On Property Claims, Media Representations, and the Informative Function of Television Movies
- Chapter 2 Home in the East as a Site of Competing Histories: Our House (Griesmayr, 1991) and The Same Old Song (Stöckl, 1992)
- Chapter 3 Home in the East as a Capitalist Battlefield: The Brocken (Glowna, 1992) and No More Mr. Nice Guy (Buck, 1993)
- Chapter 4 Home in the East as an Instrument of the Patriarchy: Judith Hermann’s “Summerhouse, Later” (1998) and Where Love Begins (2014)
- Chapter 5 Home in the East as a Threat to Men’s Control: Peter Schneider’s Eduard’s Homecoming (1999) and Karen Duve’s Rain (1999)
- Chapter 6 Home in the East as a Thing of the Past: Jenny Erpenbeck’s Visitation (2008) and Kathrin Gerlof’s Now That’s a Story (2014)
- Chapter 7 Home in the East as Corporate Overlord: Juli Zeh’s Unterleuten (2016)
- Coda Home in the East as an Ongoing Issue: Sonja Blattner’s drüben Series and the Importance of Considering Medium
- Works Cited
- Index