German Division as Shared Experience

Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Postwar Everyday
Herausgeber: Carter, Erica; Schreiter, Katrin; Palmowski, Jan

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Produktbeschreibung

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 cultural studies, anthropology and art history to explore how interconnections as well as fractures between East and West Germany after 1945 were experienced, lived and felt. Through its novel approach to historical method, the volume points to new understandings of the place of narrative, form and lived sensibility in shaping Germans' simultaneously shared and separate experiences of belonging during forty years of division from 1945 to 1990.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 618g
• ISBN-13: 9781789202427
• ISBN-10: 1789202426
• Artikelnr.: 54617752

Autorenporträt

Jan Palmowski is Pro Vice-Chancellor for Postgraduate and Transnational Education at the University of Warwick. His most recent book is Inventing a Socialist Nation: Heimat and the Politics of Everyday Life in the GDR, 1945-90 (2009).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: German Division as Shared Experience
Erica Carter, Jan Palmowski and Katrin Schreiter
Chapter 1. Narrating the Everyday: Television, Memory and the Subjunctive
in the GDR, 1969-89
Jan Palmowski
Chapter 2. Tension of Germanness in the Global South: German Immigrants in
Namibia
Heidi Armbruster
Chapter 3. 'Ich bin parteilich, subjektiv und emotional': Eigensinn and the
Narrative (Re)construction of Political Agency in Inge Viett's Nie war ich
furchtloser
Katharina Karcher
Chapter 4. Asymmetrical (Be)longing: Villagers, Spatial Practices and the
German 'Other'
Marcel Thomas
Chapter 5. Everyday Displacements in Cold War Berlin: Short Prose from East
and West
Áine McMurtry
Chapter 6. DEFA's 'Home-made' Experiment: Traces of GDR Reality and
International Avant-garde Film in Jürgen Böttcher's Transformations (1981)
Franziska Nössig
Chapter 7. Style Identities and Individualization in 1980s East and West
Germany
Alissa Bellotti
Chapter 8. Cultivating the Past: The Schrebergarten as a Political Space in
Postwar German Literature
Katrin Schreiter
Chapter 9. Painting in East Germany: An Elite Art for the Everyday (and
Everyone)
April Eisman
Chapter 10. The Perceptual Fabric and Everyday Practices of Jazz and Pop in
East and West Germany
Michael J. Schmidt
Chapter 11. Alles Geschmackssache? Shaping (Gustatory) Tastes in East and
West Germany
Alice Weinreb
Conclusion
Erica Carter, Jan Palmowski, and Katrin Schreiter