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German Division as Shared Experience Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Postwar Everyday

Carter Erica Palmowski Jan Schreiter, Katrin
Innbundet / 2019 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9781789202427
Publisert
2019-06-06
Utgiver
Vendor
Berghahn Books
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
AldersnivĂĽ
P, 06
SprĂĽk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
318

Redaktør
Carter Erica
Palmowski Jan
Schreiter, Katrin

Biographical note

Erica Carter is Professor of German and Film at King’s College London. Her books include Béla Balázs:  Early Film Theory (2010), Dietrich’s Ghosts: The Sublime and the Beautiful in Third Reich Film (2004) and How German is She? Postwar West German Reconstruction and the Consuming Woman (1997).

German Division as Shared Experience Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Postwar Everyday

Carter Erica Palmowski Jan Schreiter, Katrin
Innbundet / 2019 / Engelsk
Carter Erica Palmowski Jan Schreiter, Katrin
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<em>“All told, this volume successfully brings together its fascinating chapters into a powerful interdisciplinary analysis.</em> German Division as Shared Experience <em>is a significant achievement that will serve as a bedrock for future research on the ‘entanglement’ of the Cold War Germanies. The editors and contributors have produced a genuinely pathbreaking book.”</em> <strong>• The Journal of Modern History</strong></p>
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<em>“Thanks to an innovative approach to history that draws on material as heterogeneous as it is sensitive to cultural experiences of daily life, following Bourdieu and Foucault, this helps to bring out and question the experiences of Germans for more than forty years of division from 1945 to 1990. It offers a stimulating and unprecedented insight into a past that is (re)discovered on both sides of the Wall, strangely close and dissimilar at the same time.”</em> <strong>• Francia</strong></p>
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<em>“A refreshing, enlightening read across a good range of topics. This collection shows itself to be as integrated across disciplinary approaches as it shows the German experience to have been during and after the period of division.”</em> <strong>• Mark Allinson</strong>, University of Bristol</p>
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<em>“This genuinely engaging book offers an intriguing exploration of the diverse cultural practices that shaped experiences of postwar Germany.”</em> <strong>• Paul Steege</strong>, Villanova University</p>

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.
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Shows the extent to which the story of East and West Germany was one of mutual entanglement after 1945. By subsuming political considerations into the historical domain of the social and cultural, each of the innovative studies presented here analyzes moments of connection at the level of lived experience across the East-West divide.
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List of Figures Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction: German Division as Shared Experience Erica Carter, Jan Palmowski and Katrin Schreiter Chapter 1. Narrating the Everyday: Television, Memory and the Subjunctive in the GDR, 1969–89 Jan Palmowski Chapter 2. Tension of Germanness in the Global South: German Immigrants in Namibia Heidi Armbruster Chapter 3. ‘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 Chapter 4. Asymmetrical (Be)longing: Villagers, Spatial Practices and the German ‘Other’ Marcel Thomas Chapter 5. Everyday Displacements in Cold War Berlin: Short Prose from East and West Áine McMurtry Chapter 6. DEFA’s ‘Home-made’ Experiment: Traces of GDR Reality and International Avant-garde Film in Jürgen Böttcher’s Transformations (1981) Franziska Nössig Chapter 7. Style Identities and Individualization in 1980s East and West Germany Alissa Bellotti Chapter 8. Cultivating the Past: The Schrebergarten as a Political Space in Postwar German Literature Katrin Schreiter Chapter 9. Painting in East Germany: An Elite Art for the Everyday (and Everyone) April Eisman Chapter 10. The Perceptual Fabric and Everyday Practices of Jazz and Pop in East and West Germany Michael J. Schmidt Chapter 11. Alles Geschmackssache? Shaping (Gustatory) Tastes in East and West Germany Alice Weinreb Conclusion Erica Carter, Jan Palmowski, and Katrin Schreiter
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<p>
<em>“All told, this volume successfully brings together its fascinating chapters into a powerful interdisciplinary analysis.</em> German Division as Shared Experience <em>is a significant achievement that will serve as a bedrock for future research on the ‘entanglement’ of the Cold War Germanies. The editors and contributors have produced a genuinely pathbreaking book.”</em> <strong>• The Journal of Modern History</strong></p>
<p>
<em>“Thanks to an innovative approach to history that draws on material as heterogeneous as it is sensitive to cultural experiences of daily life, following Bourdieu and Foucault, this helps to bring out and question the experiences of Germans for more than forty years of division from 1945 to 1990. It offers a stimulating and unprecedented insight into a past that is (re)discovered on both sides of the Wall, strangely close and dissimilar at the same time.”</em> <strong>• Francia</strong></p>
<p>
<em>“A refreshing, enlightening read across a good range of topics. This collection shows itself to be as integrated across disciplinary approaches as it shows the German experience to have been during and after the period of division.”</em> <strong>• Mark Allinson</strong>, University of Bristol</p>
<p>
<em>“This genuinely engaging book offers an intriguing exploration of the diverse cultural practices that shaped experiences of postwar Germany.”</em> <strong>• Paul Steege</strong>, Villanova University</p>

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.
Les mer
Shows the extent to which the story of East and West Germany was one of mutual entanglement after 1945. By subsuming political considerations into the historical domain of the social and cultural, each of the innovative studies presented here analyzes moments of connection at the level of lived experience across the East-West divide.
Les mer
List of Figures Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction: German Division as Shared Experience Erica Carter, Jan Palmowski and Katrin Schreiter Chapter 1. Narrating the Everyday: Television, Memory and the Subjunctive in the GDR, 1969–89 Jan Palmowski Chapter 2. Tension of Germanness in the Global South: German Immigrants in Namibia Heidi Armbruster Chapter 3. ‘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 Chapter 4. Asymmetrical (Be)longing: Villagers, Spatial Practices and the German ‘Other’ Marcel Thomas Chapter 5. Everyday Displacements in Cold War Berlin: Short Prose from East and West Áine McMurtry Chapter 6. DEFA’s ‘Home-made’ Experiment: Traces of GDR Reality and International Avant-garde Film in Jürgen Böttcher’s Transformations (1981) Franziska Nössig Chapter 7. Style Identities and Individualization in 1980s East and West Germany Alissa Bellotti Chapter 8. Cultivating the Past: The Schrebergarten as a Political Space in Postwar German Literature Katrin Schreiter Chapter 9. Painting in East Germany: An Elite Art for the Everyday (and Everyone) April Eisman Chapter 10. The Perceptual Fabric and Everyday Practices of Jazz and Pop in East and West Germany Michael J. Schmidt Chapter 11. Alles Geschmackssache? Shaping (Gustatory) Tastes in East and West Germany Alice Weinreb Conclusion Erica Carter, Jan Palmowski, and Katrin Schreiter
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781789202427
Publisert
2019-06-06
Utgiver
Vendor
Berghahn Books
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
AldersnivĂĽ
P, 06
SprĂĽk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
318

Redaktør
Carter Erica
Palmowski Jan
Schreiter, Katrin

Biographical note

Erica Carter is Professor of German and Film at King’s College London. Her books include Béla Balázs:  Early Film Theory (2010), Dietrich’s Ghosts: The Sublime and the Beautiful in Third Reich Film (2004) and How German is She? Postwar West German Reconstruction and the Consuming Woman (1997).

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