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Life Stories from the German Democratic Republic
Series: - German Monitor, Volume: 81
- German Monitor, Volume: 81
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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.
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).
Written for both academic and general readers alike, this book is useful for German history, literature and cultural studies; communist studies; oral history, life writing and memory studies. It may also be of interest to some political scientists.