Postsocialist Memory in Contemporary German Culture
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Scholarship on Eastern Europe after 1989 often focuses narrowly on the socialist past as authoritarian, dictatorial, or totalitarian. This collection, by contrast, illuminates an additional dimension of post-socialist memory: it traces the survival of hopes and dreams born under socialism and the legacy of the unrealized alternative futures embedded within the socialist past. Looking at contemporary German-language literature, film, theater, and art, the volume analyzes reflections on everyday socialist realities as well as narratives of opposition and dissent. The texts discussed here not only revisit the past, but also challenge the present and help us imagine alternative futures. Rather than framing the unrealized futures envisioned in the pre-1989 era as failures, this collection probes post-socialist memory for its future-oriented potential to rethink issues of community, equity and equality, and late-stage capitalism. Foregrounding the complexities of Eastern European legacies also helps us reimagine the relationship between East and West both in Germany and in Europe as a whole.
Michel Mallet, Université de Moncton, Moncton, NB, Canada; Maria Mayr, Memorial University, St. John's, NL, Canada; Kristin Rebien, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, USA.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 16.07.2024 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Media and Cultural Memory ; 39 |
| Zusatzinfo | 2 b/w and 4 col. ill. |
| Verlagsort | Berlin/Boston |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 155 x 230 mm |
| Gewicht | 500 g |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| Schlagworte | futurity • German and European Studies • Post-socialist memory • post-socialist nostalgia |
| ISBN-10 | 3-11-073773-6 / 3110737736 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-3-11-073773-8 / 9783110737738 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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