Daphne Berdahl

On the Social Life of Postsocialism

Memory, Consumption, Germany
Herausgeber: Bunzl, Matti

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

It serves as a superb introduction to the development of the field of postsocialist cultural studies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Dezember 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 238mm x 156mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 308g
• ISBN-13: 9780253221704
• ISBN-10: 0253221706
• Artikelnr.: 28513626

Autorenporträt

Daphne Berdahl, edited by Matti Bunzl, foreword by Michael Herzfeld

Inhaltsangabe

Preface by Michael Herzfeld
Acknowledgments
Introduction by Matti Bunzl
Part 1. Washington, D.C.
1. Voices at the Wall: Discourses of Self, History, and National Identity
at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial
Part 2. Kella
2. Consumer Rites: The Politics of Consumption in Re-Unified Germany
3. "(N)Ostalgie" for the Present: Memory, Longing, and East German Things
4. "Go, Trabi, Go!": Reflections on a Car and Its Symbolization over Time
5. Mixed Devotions: Religion, Friendship, and Fieldwork in Postsocialist
East Germany
Part 3. Leipzig
6. The Spirit of Capitalism and the Boundaries of Citizenship in Post-Wall
Germany
7. Local Hero, National Crook: "Doc" Schneider and the Spectacle of Finance
Capital
8. Expressions of Experience and Experiences of Expression: Museum
Re-Presentations of GDR History
9. Goodbye Lenin, Aufwiedersehen GDR: On the Social Life of Socialism
Notes
References
Index