Life Stories from the German Democratic Republic

Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-90-04-54489-5
Verlag: World Bank Publications

Buch, Englisch, Band 81, 396 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 743 g

Reihe: German Monitor

More than thirty years after German reunification, Life Stories from the German Democratic Republic addresses how life in the GDR is remembered, thereby enriching and complexifying the narratives of East German life found in public history, museums, tourist venues, film, media and popular fiction. The frequent stress on material lack, social restrictions and the repressive state is expanded and reconfigured by interviewees who variously both challenge and confirm widespread assumptions about what it meant to live in the GDR. Aimed at a wide readership, this book gives English-speaking readers access to varied and detailed accounts of everyday life, individual engagement with state institutions and different views of GDR politics, society and culture.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weedon, Chris

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Deutsche Literatur
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten

Über Autor(innen)

Chris Weedon (PhD, Birmingham, 1984) is professor emerita at Cardiff University, where she taught cultural theory/politics. Her books include Feminist Practice and Poststructuralist Theory (1987), Cultural Politics (1992), Feminism, Theory and the Politics of Difference (1999), Identity & Culture (2004), and Gender, Feminism and Fiction in Germany 1840-1914 (2006).