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Memory Traces - 1989 and the Question of German Cultural Identity (Paperback, illustrated edition)
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Memory Traces - 1989 and the Question of German Cultural Identity (Paperback, illustrated edition)
Series: Cultural History and Literary Imagination, 5
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This essay collection examines the dynamics of memory organization
and the way it varies among different media and modes of discourse
in post-unification Germany. German unification has put the
post-war period into a historical perspective. Such a rupture
raises questions concerning the appropriate commemoration,
preservation and reinterpretation of the past. The processes of
reorientation after unification influenced the self-perception of
literary authors as well as the social role, position and status of
German literature. They also affected the way writers viewed the
competition in which they found themselves pitted against visual
and electronic media as rival windows on the past. In the context
of several debates on German literature during the 1990s the
discussion revolved not only around the adequate aesthetic
representation of the historical and cultural heritage but even
more so around the role of literature itself in that process. The
contributions look at different discourses that were and still are
concerned with reinterpreting and creating new collective symbols
and narrative patterns in relation to Germany's past. The volume
focuses on the effects of the characteristic discourses of the
press, literature and its different genres, film, the internet and
memorials on the depiction and performance of memories.
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