The freest country in the world : East Germany's final year in culture and memory /

"Stephen Brockmann's new book explores the year 1989/1990 in East Germany, arguing that while the GDR is generally seen as - and was for most of its forty years - an oppressive and unfree country, from autumn 1989 until the autumn of 1990 it was the "freest country in the world,"...

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Tác giả chính: Brockmann, Stephen (Tác giả)
Định dạng: Licensed eBooks
Ngôn ngữ:Tiếng Anh
Được phát hành: Rochester, New York : Camden House, 2023.
Loạt:Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture.
Truy cập trực tuyến:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv33jb5zd
Mục lục:
  • Introduction: The memory of freedom
  • Protocols of history : reunification documentaries from 1989/1990
  • Anarchy in the GDR
  • The national liberation zone
  • Coming of age as the state dies : three novels and their heroes
  • Provincial theater : fiction film struggles to address German reunification in the early 1990s
  • The grand theater of the east and the imaginary Stasi : the emergence of the standard depiction of German reunification in film and on television
  • Ritual, repetition, and memory : commemorating and memorializing 1989/1990
  • Conclusion: The last GDR.