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German division as shared experience : interdisciplinary perspectives on the postwar everyday / edited by Erica Carter, Jan Palmowski, and Katrin Schreiter.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Intercultural communication.
- History.
- Manners and customs.
- Germany (East)--Social life and customs.
- Germany (East).
- Germany (West)--Social life and customs.
- Germany (West).
- Germany (East)--Intellectual life.
- Intellectual life.
- Germany (West)--Intellectual life.
- Intercultural communication--Germany (East)--History.
- Intercultural communication--Germany (West)--History.
- Germany (East)--Relations--Germany (West).
- Relations.
- Germany (West)--Relations--Germany (East).
- Germany--History--1945-1990.
- Germany.
- International relations.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 308 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Berghahn Books, 2019.
- Summary:
- "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"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction: German division as shared experience / Erica Carter, Jan Palmowski and Katrin Schreiter
- Narrating the everyday : television, memory and the subjunctive in the GDR, 1969-89 / Jan Palmowski
- Tension of Germanness in the Global South : German immigration in Namibia / Heidi Armbruster
- "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
- Asymmetrical (be)longing : villagers, spatial practices and the German "other" / Marcel Thomas
- Everyday displacements in Cold War Berlin : short prose from East and West / Aine McMurtry
- DEFA's "home-made" experiment : traces of GDR reality and international avant-garde film in Jurgen Bottcher's Transformations (1981) / Franziska Nossig
- Style identities and individualization in 1980s East and West Germany / Alissa Bellotti
- Cultivating the past : the Schrebergarten as a political space in postwar German literature / Katrin Schreiter
- Painting in East Germany : an elite art for the everyday (and everyone) / April A. Eisman
- The perceptual fabric and everyday practices of jazz and pop in East and West Germany / Michael J. Schmidt
- Alles Geschmackssache? Shaping (gustatory) tastes in East and West Germany / Alice Weinreb
- Conclusion / Erica Carter, Jan Palmowski, Katrin Schreiter.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: German division as shared experience
- ISBN:
- 9781789202427
- 1789202426
- OCLC:
- 1089852799
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