Contentious Memories

Description:

Who is remembering the German Democratic Republic, and how do they go about it? This volume of "contentious memories" brings together essays and critical responses in a look back at three aspects of GDR studies. It presents an opportunity for self-reflection on German Studies' past and ongoing engagement with the GDR and post-unification transformations. It seeks to evaluate old questions and raises new ones concerning the historical knowledge of GDR culture and our interpretations of it. Finally, it examines blindspots and self-deceptions of the past as well as those forming all too quickly in the present.

subjects: Intellectuals,  Historiography,  Socialism and culture,  Cultural policy,  Intellectual life,  Germany, history,  Germany, intellectual life,  Germany, historiography,  Germany, politics and government,  Intellectuals, germany