German division as shared experience : interdisciplinary perspectives on the postwar everyday / edited by Erica Carter, Jan Palmowski and Katrin Schreiter

"Despite the nearly three decades since German reunification, there remains little understanding of the ways in which experiences overlapped across East-West divides. German Division as Shared Experience considers everyday life across the two Germanies, using perspectives from history, literary...

Description complète

Enregistré dans:
Détails bibliographiques
Autres auteurs:Carter, Erica (Éditeur intellectuel)
Palmowski, Jan (Éditeur intellectuel)
Schreiter, Katrin (Éditeur intellectuel)
Format: Livre
Langue:English
Publié:New York ; Oxford : Berghahn, 2019
Sujets:
Accès en ligne:Inhaltsverzeichnis
Description
Résumé:"Despite the nearly three decades since German reunification, there remains little understanding of the ways in which experiences overlapped across East-West divides. German Division as Shared Experience considers everyday life across the two Germanies, using perspectives from history, literary and cultural studies, anthropology and art history to explore how interconnections as well as fractures between East and West Germany after 1945 were experienced, lived and felt. Through its novel approach to historical method, the volume points to new understandings of the place of narrative, form and lived sensibility in shaping Germans' simultaneously shared and separate experiences of belonging during forty years of division from 1945 to 1990"--
Description:Enthält Literaturangaben und ein Register
Description matérielle:ix, 308 Seiten Illustrationen
ISBN:9781789202427