Narratives in the Making - Writing the East German Past in the Democratic Present (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	Berghahn Books
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	December 2016
Authors:	Anselma Gallinat
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 2mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	242
ISBN-13:	978-1-78533-302-6
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > European history > General Books > Humanities > History > World history > From 1900 > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > Social & cultural anthropology > General Books > History > European history > General Books > History > World history > From 1900 > General
LSN:	1-78533-302-X
Barcode:	9781785333026

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