Palgrave MacMillan Memory Studies

Multiple Perspectives and Plural Authenticities

By: Anna Saunders (Editor), Debbie Pinfold (Editor)

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Hardcover | 15 December 2012 | Edition Number 1

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More than twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, memories of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) remain complex and controversial. As new generations come of age, not only do the political, social and cultural parameters of remembrance shift accordingly, but so too do the forms of media used to transmit these memories. This volume explores the different ways in which the GDR has been remembered since its demise in 1989/90, and asks how memory of this state continues to impact on contemporary Germany. The chapters offer multiple perspectives on the GDR, examining the way memories have been expressed in and shaped by literature, film, music, museums, monuments, historical narratives, commemorative events and everyday discourse concerning the GDR. In resisting monolithic readings of the GDR, the volume offers new insights into the complex relationship between past and present in eastern Germany.

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List of Figures	p. vii
Acknowledgements	p. viii
Notes on Contributors	p. ix
Introduction: 'Wissen wie es war'?	p. 1
Theoretical Reflections
The GDR and the Memory Debate	p. 19
Selective Memory: Channelling the Past in Post-GDR Society	p. 34
Narrative Frameworks of Memory
Reframing Antifascism: Greta Kuckhoff as Author, Commentator and Critic	p. 51
Community and Genre: Autobiographical Rememberings of Stasi Oppression	p. 67
Doppelgänger in Post-Wende Literature: Klaus Schlesinger's Trug and Beyond	p. 83
Beyond Nostalgia
'Ostalgie doesn't fit!': Individual Interpretations of and Interaction with Ostalgie	p. 101
Reflective Nostalgia and Diasporic Memory: Composing East Germany after 1989	p. 116
Colour and Time in Museums of East German Everyday Life	p. 132
Past Memories for Present Concerns
Memory Matters and Contexts: Remembering for Past, Present and Future	p. 149
The Politics of Memory in Berlin's Freiheits- und Einheitsdenkmal	p. 164
'We were heroes.' Local Memories of Autumn 1989: Revising the Past	p. 179
Memories in Private and Public
Re-Imaging the Niche: Visual Reconstructions of Private Spaces in the GDR	p. 197
Memories, Secrets and Lies: The Emotional Legacy of the GDR in Christian Schwochow's Novemberkind (2008)	p. 214
Life in the Army: Reported, Represented, Remembered	p. 229
Index	p. 245
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