Virtual Walls? : Political Unification and Cultural Difference in Contemporary Germany
Frontcover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: United Politics-Divided Culture? -- Part I. What Remains: History and the Constitution -- 1: Lost in Transition: Reflections on the Spectral History of the GDR -- 2: Reconstituting the Federal Republic? Constitutional Law and Politics before...
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| Format: | E-Book |
| Sprache: | English |
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Melton : Boydell & Brewer,
2017
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| Mit dem übergeordneten Werk verknüpfte Titel: | Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
v.Volume 184 |
| Schlagworte: | Germany-Civilization-21st century Germany-History-Unification, 1990 Germany-History-Unification, 1990-Social aspects Electronic books Deutschland Wiedervereinigung Kulturelle Identität |
| Umfang: | 1 online resource (214 pages) |
| Zusammenfassung: | Frontcover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: United Politics-Divided Culture? -- Part I. What Remains: History and the Constitution -- 1: Lost in Transition: Reflections on the Spectral History of the GDR -- 2: Reconstituting the Federal Republic? Constitutional Law and Politics before and since 1989 -- Part II. What and How Do We Remember? Literature, Film, and Exhibitions -- 3: East German Literature and Reunification: Continuities and Discontinuities -- 4: The Afterlife of the GDR in Post-Wall German Cinema -- 5: Exhibiting 1989/2009: Memory, Affect, and the Politics of History -- Part III. A Changing Reception: Painting, Orchestras, and Theaters -- 6: Reexamining the Staatskünstler Myth: Bernhard Heisig and the Post-Wall Reception of East German Painting -- 7: East German Orchestras and Theaters: The Transformation since the Wende -- Part IV. A Virtual Wall? Education and Society -- 8: What Do German High School Students Think about the GDR? Memory Culture between Glorification and Evaluation -- 9: The Ongoing Significance of East Germany and the Wende Narrative in Public Discourse -- Epilogue: The Wende and the End of "the German Problem" -- Notes on the Contributors -- Index. A reassessment of the journey Germans in East and West have taken during the past two and a half decades: even today, an open-ended, unfinished journey. |
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| Beschreibung: | Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources |
| Beschreibung: | 1 online resource (214 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781787441682 1787441687 9781571139801 157113980X |