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Textual responses to German unification : processing historical and social change in literature and film / edited by Carol Anne Costabile-Heming, Rachel J. Halverson, Kristie A. Foell.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- German literature--20th century--History and criticism.
- German literature.
- Motion pictures--Germany--History.
- Motion pictures.
- Germany--In literature.
- Germany.
- Germany--History--Unification, 1990.
- Germany--In motion pictures.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (288 pages)
- Edition:
- Reprint 2013
- Place of Publication:
- Berlin ; New York : W. de Gruyter, 2001.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Diese Anthologie bietet eine Vielzahl von Perspektiven zum Thema "Deutsche Vereinigung". Behandelt werden literarische, autobiographische und journalistische Auseinandersetzungen sowie Essays über Film und Theater. Die Vereinigung beider deutscher Staaten änderte sowohl die geopolitischen als auch die wirtschaftlichen, sozialen und kulturellen Grenzen Deutschlands und Europas. Der vorliegende Band untersucht in drei Teilen die Reaktionen ost- und westdeutscher Schriftsteller und Regisseure auf diese Umbrüche: in fiktiven, autobiographischen/journalistischen und in filmischen Texten. Die besprochenen Autoren und Regisseure nehmen Stellung nicht nur zu den Änderungen, die sie in ihrer Umgebung erlebten, sondern geben auch Auskunft über ihr verändertes Verhältnis zu ihrer Vergangenheit im geteilten Deutschland.
- The unification of the two German states changed the geo-political, economic, social, and cultural borders of Germany and Europe. This volume in three parts researches how East German and West German authors and directors reacted to these radical changes. The basis of this research are fictional, autobiographical, journalistic, and cinematic texts. The authors and directors presented in this volume not only comment on the changes which they themselves experienced but also voice their changing attitudes to their own past within the divided Germany.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- "Schreiber, was siehst du?" Processing Historical and Social Change / Costabile-Heming, Carol Anne / Halverson, Rachel J. / Foell, Kristie A.
- Authors and Their Worlds
- The Journey Eastward: Helga Schütz' Vom Glanz der Elbe and the Mnemonic Politics of German Unification / Rider, Ν. Ann
- "ob es sich bei diesem Experiment um eine gescheiterte Utopie oder um ein Verbrechen gehandelt hat": Enlightenment, Utopia, the GDR and National Socialism in Monika Maron's Work From Flugasche to Pawels Briefe / Tabener, Stuart
- Remembering the GDR: Memory and Evasion in Autobiographical Writing from the Former GDR / Reece, James R.
- "Gefälle in der Landschaft" - On the critique of real existing capitalism in Volker Braun's texts / Jucker, Rolf
- Comedic Bestseller or Insightful Satire: Taking the Interview and Autobiography to Task in Thomas Brussig's Helden wie wir / Halverson, Rachel J.
- Multiple Voice-Generational Views
- "Man muß jetzt laut schreien, um gehört zu werden": Stefan Heym, Walter Jens, Helga Königsdorf: An intellectual opposition? / Oppen, Karoline Von
- Everyday Stories of Hope and Despair in Eastern Germany: Kerstin Hensel and Ingo Schulze Write about Life after the Wende / Kasle, Alisa
- "Ko . . .Ko . . . Konolialismus," said the giraffe: Humorous and Satirical Responses to German Unification / Twark, Jill
- Theatrical Confrontations with the Wende and Post- Unification Germany: Strauß, Pohl, and Hein / Fetz, Gerald A.
- Cinematic Responses
- Mastering the Past and Present: Problems of Memory in Postwar and Post -Wende German Cinema / Levy, Robert Ο. / McCormick, Richard W.
- Ghosts of Babelsberg: Narrative strategies of the Wendefilm / Locatelli, Massimo
- German-Germanness: On Borders, Hybridity, and Sameness in Margarethe von Trotta's Das Versprechen / Ward, Jenifer Κ.
- History as Melodrama: German Division and Unification in Two Recent Films / Foell, Kristie A.
- Sonnenallee: Taking Comedy Seriously in Unified Germany / Cafferty, Helen
- Notes on Contributors
- Index of Names
- Backmatter
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9783110880403
- 3110880407
- OCLC:
- 1024035696
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