Twenty years on : competing memories of the GDR in postunification German culture /

"This volume has developed out of an interdisciplinary conference held at the University of Bath in September 2009 ... entitled Remembering the GDR and Germany's Unification Process"--Text.Includes bibliographical references and index.Pt. 1. Media constructions of 1989 and the elusiveness of the historical GDR -- Visual re-productions of the Wende: the role played by television images in constituting and historicizing political events / Hilde Hoffmann -- Remembering GDR culture in postunification Germany and beyond / Stephen Brockmann -- Pt. 2. Challenges to the dominant discourse of the Wende -- "Das waren wir nicht!": the image of East Germans and the GDR as a narrative problem after 1989 in Klaus Schlesinger's Die Sache mit Randow / Daniel Argeles -- "Der Schrei des Marsyas": the mythic voices of the subaltern in Reinhard Jirgl's MutterVaterRoman / Arne De Winde and Frederik Van Dam -- An early challenge to the construction of cross-border romance in post-1989 film: Andreas Dresen's So schnell es geht nach Istanbul / Rosemary Stott -- Pt. 3. Textual memory -- Mediating immediacy: historicizing the GDR by bringing it back to life in post-millennial works of fiction / Andrea Geier -- "Eine Armee wie jede andere auch"?: writers and filmmakers remember the Nationale Volksarmee / Andrew Plowman -- Matter out of place: trash and transition in Clemens Meyer's Als wir traumten / Gillian Pye -- Pt. 4. Literary generations - Competing perspectives -- Autobiographical writing in three generations of a GDR family: Christa Wolf - Annette Simon - Jana Simon / Wolfgang Emmerich -- Accursed progenitors? extending the generation gap debate to GDR parents / Astrid Kohler -- Parallels and divergences in post-1989 memory discourse: a comparative review of the Slovak experience / Nadezda Zemanikova -- Pt. 5. Afterlives -- Dances of death: a last literature from the GDR / Karen Leeder -- "Die gegenwart war es nicht": Irina Liebmann and the post-Wende uncanny / Catherine Smale -- One iota of difference: remembering GDR literature as socialist literature / Benjamin Robinson