{"product_id":"9783110170221","title":"Textual Responses to German Unification : Processing Historical and Social Change in Literature and Film","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe unification of the two German states changed the geo-political, economic, social, and cultural borders of Germany and Europe. This volume in three parts researches how East German and West German authors and directors reacted to these radical changes.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe basis of this research are fictional, autobiographical, journalistic, and cinematic texts. The authors and directors presented in this volume not only comment on the changes which they themselves experienced but also voice their changing attitudes to their own past within the divided Germany.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCarol Anne Costabile-Heming\/Rachel J. Halverson\/Kristie A. Foell, \"Schreiber, was siehst du?\" Processing Historical and Social Change\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\nAuthors and Their Worlds\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eN. Ann Rider, The Journey Eastward: Helga Schütz' \u003ci\u003eVom Glanz der Elbe\u003c\/i\u003e and the Mnemonic Politics of German Unification\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eStuart Tabener, \"ob es sich bei diesem Experiment um eine gescheiterte Utopie oder ein Verbrechen gehandelt hat\": Enlightenment, Utopia , the GDR and National Socialism in Monika Marons Work from \u003ci\u003eFlugasche\u003c\/i\u003e to \u003ci\u003ePawels Briefe \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJames Reece, Remembering the GDR: Memory and Evasion in Autobiographical Writing from the Former GDR\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRolf Jucker, \"\u003ci\u003eGefälle\u003c\/i\u003e in der Landschaft\u003ci\u003e\"\u003c\/i\u003e - On the Critique of Real Existing Capitalism in Volker Braun's Texts\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRachel J. Halverson, Comedic Bestseller or Insightful Satire: Taking the Interview and Autobiography to Task in Thomas Brussig's \u003ci\u003eHelden wie wir\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\nMultiple Voices - Generational Views\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eKaroline von Oppen, \"Man muß jetzt laut schreien, um gehört zu werden\": Stefan Heym, Walter Jens, Helga Königsdorf: An Intellectual Opposition?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAlisa Kasle, Everyday Stories of Hope and Despair in Eastern Germany: Kerstin Hensel and Ingo Schulze Write About Life After the \u003ci\u003eWende\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJill Twark, \"Ko...Ko...Konolialismus\", Said the Giraffe: Humorous and Satirical Responses to German Unification\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGerald A. Fetz, Theatrical Confrontations with the \u003ci\u003eWende\u003c\/i\u003e and Post-Unification Germany: Strauß, Pohl, and Hein\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\nCineamatic Responses\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRobert D. Levy\/Rick McCormick, Mastering the Past and Present: Problems of Memory in Postwar and Post-Wende German Cinema\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMassimo Locatelli, Ghosts of Babelsberg: Narrative Strategies of the \u003ci\u003eWendefilm\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJenifer Ward, German-Germanness: On Borders, Hybridity, and Sameness in Margarethe von Trotta's \u003ci\u003eDas Versprechen\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eKristie A. Foell, History as Melodrama: German Division and Unification in Two Recent Films\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHelen Cafferty, \u003ci\u003eSonnenallee\u003c\/i\u003e: Taking Comedy Seriously in Unified Germany \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"This volume provides profound insights into challenges Germany faced after unification [...]\"\n\u003cem\u003eKerstin Gaddy in: Seminar 2\/2008\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"De Gruyter","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48762951925995,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":384.55,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.sg\/products\/9783110170221","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Singapore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}