Narratives in the Making

Writing the East German Past in the Democratic Present

von Anselma Gallinat

244 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.

• Themen: Geschichte und Archäologie Geschichte Europäische Geschichte
• ISBN: 9781800730083
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 01.06.2021
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Berghahn Books