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Record Nr.

UNINA9910813901503321

Autore

Gook Ben

Titolo

Divided subjects, invisible borders : re-unified Germany after 1989 / / Ben Gook

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, [England] ; ; New York, New York : , : Rowman & Littlefield International, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-78348-243-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (328 p.)

Collana

Place, Memory, Affect

Disciplina

943.088

Soggetti

Collective memory - Germany

Germany History Unification, 1990 Influence

Germany History Unification, 1990 Social aspects

Germany Social conditions 1990-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I: Another New Beginning; Chapter One: End of Story; Chapter Two: The German Ideology; Conclusion for Part I; Part II: The Past That Outlived Itself; Chapter Three: Really Existing Nostalgia; Chapter Four: Disintegration and Ambivalence; Conclusion for Part II; Part III: The Lives of Ossis on Film; Chapter Five: The Lives of Others; Chapter Six: Good Bye Lenin!; Chapter Seven: Material; Conclusion for Part III; Part IV: Remembering, Commemorating; Chapter Eight: In the Gallery; Chapter Nine: In the Street; Conclusion for Part IV; Conclusion

Works CitedIndex

Sommario/riassunto

Divided Subjects, Invisible Borders details, through empirical and theoretical exposition, how the national unity of Germany after the Fall of the Berlin Wall conceals persistent division in the lives of eastern and western Germans.