In the Shadows of a Fallen Wall
University of Nebraska Press (Verlag)
978-0-8032-7141-8 (ISBN)
Growing up, what Sanford Tweedie knew about East Germany was basically . . . nothing. West Germans were our friends; East Germans, the enemy. In 2000, somewhat better informed, Tweedie took advantage of a Fulbright Scholarship to move his family to the eastern German town of Erfurt for the academic year. Far from home and the familiar, with temporary status and a tenuous grasp of the language, he and his wife were curious to see how they would function shorn of all the rules that governed their daily lives—housing, food acquisition, transportation, and even basic communication. As soon as their taxi delivered them to their grim tan and concrete Soviet-vintage apartment building, they knew their education had begun.
Learning about life in the former East Germany, amid the feverish embrace of Western culture and the tenacious legacy of a totalitarian past, Tweedie comes to understand the deeper cultural assumptions through which Americans view the larger world. Part travelogue, part history, part cultural critique, all thoroughly engrossing, the story of his yearlong experience is one of dislocation and accommodation, making a German town his own and now ours.
Sanford Tweedie is an award-winning teacher and professor in the Department of Writing Arts at Rowan University in Glassboro, New Jersey. He has published widely, including work in the journals College Compositionand Communication and Exquisite Corpse.
Acknowledgments Introduction: The Walls in Our Heads 1. Breaking Down the Wall 2. But for the Weather 3. Leaving the American Sector 4. Concrete Details: Your Guide's Tour of Erfurt 5. alfs, Autos, and Encounters with the Polizei 6. Words Fail Me, Yet Again 7. Destinations and Wanderings 8. Field without Dreams: Baseball in the Former GDR 9. The Class That Doesn't Exist in the Country That Once Did 10. Whatever You Do, Don't Look Down 11. In Former Times Afterword: Echoes of a Fallen Wall
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 1.5.2013 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 21 illustrations |
| Verlagsort | Lincoln |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 140 x 216 mm |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
| Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Deutschland | |
| Reisen ► Reiseführer ► Deutschland | |
| Reisen ► Reiseführer ► Europa | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-8032-7141-7 / 0803271417 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-8032-7141-8 / 9780803271418 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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