Contentious Memories
Looking Back at the GDR
Who is remembering the German Democratic Republic, and how do they go about it? This volume of contentious memories brings together essays and critical responses in a look back at three aspects of GDR studies. It presents an opportunity for self-reflection on German Studies' past and ongoing engagement with the GDR and post-unification transformations. It seeks to evaluate old questions and raises new ones concerning the historical knowledge of GDR culture and our interpretations of it. Finally, it examines blindspots and self-deceptions of the past as well as those forming all too quickly in the present. Characterized by a self-awareness and…
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: Silberman, Marc (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-8204-5254-8
- EAN: 9780820452548
- Produktnummer: 19045097
- Verlag: Peter Lang Publishing Inc
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2000
- Seitenangabe: 264 S.
- Masse: H16.5 cm x B22.8 cm x D1.4 cm 360 g
- Auflage: 2 Revised edition
- Gewicht: 360
- Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)
Über den Autor
The Editors: Jost Hermand is the William F. Vilas Research Professor of German at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research interests focus on German literature and culture from 1750 to the present, German-Jewish history, and the methodology of cultural studies. He has taught German literature, art history, and history at many German and American universities. His most recent publication is Judentum und deutsche Kultur. Beispiele einer schmerzhaften Symbiose (1996). Marc Silberman is a professor of German at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where he teaches twentieth-century German literature, culture, and cinema studies. He has published books, essays, and articles on GDR literature, theater, and cinema, on Heiner Müller, Günter Grass, and Bertolt Brecht, and on the history of German cinema. He edited the Brecht Yearbook from 1989-1995 and is currently involved in projects surrounding the commemoration of Brecht's 100th birthday in 1998.
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