Narratives in the Making
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Narratives in the Making

Writing the East German Past in the Democratic Present

  1. 264 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Narratives in the Making

Writing the East German Past in the Democratic Present

About this book

Despite the three decades that have passed since the fall of the Berlin Wall, the historical narrative of East Germany is hardly fixed in public memory, as German society continues to grapple with the legacies of the Cold War. This fascinating ethnography looks at two very different types of local institutions in one eastern German state that take divergent approaches to those legacies: while publicly funded organizations reliably cast the GDR as a dictatorship, a main regional newspaper offers a more ambivalent perspective colored by the experiences and concerns of its readers. As author Anselma Gallinat shows, such memory work—initially undertaken after fundamental regime change—inevitably shapes citizenship and democracy in the present.

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Information

Year
2016
Print ISBN
9781800730083
eBook ISBN
9781785333033
Edition
1
Topic
History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Table of Contents
  3. List of Illustrations
  4. Acknowledgments
  5. Introduction
  6. 1. Remembering East Germany in the United Nation
  7. 2. Institutions That Write Memory
  8. 3. Debating the Past at the Daily Paper
  9. 4. Ordering Memory for Government
  10. 5. What Makes an Aufarbeiter and a Journalist?
  11. 6. Democracy in Trouble
  12. 7. Memory for Citizenship
  13. Conclusion
  14. Glossary
  15. Bibliography
  16. Index