"This volume developed out of an interdisciplinary conference entitled "Remembering the GDR and Germany's Unification Process" held at the University of Bath in September 2009"--Acknowledgments.
Pt. I. Media constructions of 1989 and the elusiveness of the historical GDR. Visual re-productions of the Wende : the role played by television images in constituting and historicizing political events / Hilde Hoffmann
Remembering GDR culture in postunification Germany and beyond / Stephen Brockmann
pt. II. Challenges to the dominant discourse of the Wende. "Das waren wir nicht!" : the image of East Germans and the GDR as a narrative problem after 1989 in Klaus Schlesinger's Die Sache mit Randow / Daniel Argelès
"Der Schrei des Marsyas" : the mythic voices of the subaltern in Reinhard Jirgl's Mutter Vater Roman / Arne De Winde and Frederik Van Dam
An early challenge to the construction of cross-border romance in post-1989 film : Andreas Dresen's So schnell es geht nach Istanbul / Rosemary Stott
pt. III. Textual memory. Mediating immediacy : historicizing the GDR by bringing it back to life in postmillennial works of fiction / Andrea Geier
"Eine Armee wie jede andere auch"? : writers and filmmakers remember the Nationale Volksarmee / Andrew Plowman
Matter out of place : trash and transition in Clemens Meyer's Als wir träumten / Gillian Pye
pt. IV. Literary generations : competing perspectives. Autobiographical writing in three generations of a GDR family : Christa Wolf
Annette Simon
Jana Simon / Wolfgang Emmerich
Accursed progenitors? : extending the generation-gap debate to GDR parents / Astrid Köhler
Parallels and divergences in post-1989 memory discourse : a comparative review of the Slovak experience / Nadežda Zemaníková
pt. V. Afterlives. Dances of death : a last literature from the GDR / Karen Leeder
"Die Gegenwart war es nicht" : Irina Liebmann and the post-Wende uncanny / Catherine Smale
One iota of difference : remembering GDR literature as socialist literature / Benjamin Robinson.
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Twenty years on : competing memories of the GDR in postunification German culture. ISBN 9781571135032. Published by Camden House in 2011. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
