{"product_id":"german-division-as-shared-experience-interdisciplinary-perspectives-on-the-postwar-everyday-9781789202427","title":"German Division as Shared Experience:","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tDespite the nearly three decades since German reunification, there remains little understanding of the ways in which experiences overlapped across East-West divides. \u003cem\u003eGerman Division as Shared Experience\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“All told, this volume successfully brings together its fascinating chapters into a powerful interdisciplinary analysis.\u003c\/em\u003e German Division as Shared Experience \u003cem\u003eis a significant achievement that will serve as a bedrock for future research on the ‘entanglement’ of the Cold War Germanies. The editors and contributors have produced a genuinely pathbreaking book.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e• The Journal of Modern History\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“Thanks to an innovative approach to history that draws on material as heterogeneous as it is sensitive to cultural experiences of daily life, following Bourdieu and Foucault, this helps to bring out and question the experiences of Germans for more than forty years of division from 1945 to 1990. It offers a stimulating and unprecedented insight into a past that is (re)discovered on both sides of the Wall, strangely close and dissimilar at the same time.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e• Francia\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“A refreshing, enlightening read across a good range of topics. This collection shows itself to be as integrated across disciplinary approaches as it shows the German experience to have been during and after the period of division.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e• Mark Allinson\u003c\/strong\u003e, University of Bristol\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“This genuinely engaging book offers an intriguing exploration of the diverse cultural practices that shaped experiences of postwar Germany.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e• Paul Steege\u003c\/strong\u003e, Villanova University\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tList of Figures\u003cbr\u003e \tAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e \tList of Abbreviations\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eIntroduction:\u003c\/strong\u003e German Division as Shared Experience\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eErica Carter, Jan Palmowski and Katrin Schreiter\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 1.\u003c\/strong\u003e Narrating the Everyday: Television, Memory and the Subjunctive in the GDR, 1969–89\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eJan Palmowski\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 2.\u003c\/strong\u003e Tension of Germanness in the Global South: German Immigrants in Namibia\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eHeidi Armbruster\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 3.\u003c\/strong\u003e ‘Ich bin parteilich, subjektiv und emotional’: Eigensinn and the Narrative (Re)construction of Political Agency in Inge Viett’s \u003cem\u003eNie war ich furchtloser\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eKatharina Karcher\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 4.\u003c\/strong\u003e Asymmetrical (Be)longing: Villagers, Spatial Practices and the German ‘Other’\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eMarcel Thomas\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 5.\u003c\/strong\u003e Everyday Displacements in Cold War Berlin: Short Prose from East and West\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eÁine McMurtry\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 6.\u003c\/strong\u003e DEFA’s ‘Home-made’ Experiment: Traces of GDR Reality and International Avant-garde Film in Jürgen Böttcher’s \u003cem\u003eTransformations\u003c\/em\u003e (1981)\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eFranziska Nössig\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 7. \u003c\/strong\u003eStyle Identities and Individualization in 1980s East and West Germany\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eAlissa Bellotti\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 8.\u003c\/strong\u003e Cultivating the Past: The \u003cem\u003eSchrebergarten\u003c\/em\u003e as a Political Space in Postwar German Literature\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eKatrin Schreiter\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 9.\u003c\/strong\u003e Painting in East Germany: An Elite Art for the Everyday (and Everyone)\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eApril Eisman\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 10.\u003c\/strong\u003e The Perceptual Fabric and Everyday Practices of Jazz and Pop in East and West Germany\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eMichael J. Schmidt\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 11.\u003c\/strong\u003e Alles Geschmackssache? Shaping (Gustatory) Tastes in East and West Germany\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eAlice Weinreb\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eConclusion\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eErica Carter, Jan Palmowski, and Katrin Schreiter\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Berghahn Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042552774999,"sku":"9781789202427","price":89.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781789202427.jpg?v=1750954613","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/german-division-as-shared-experience-interdisciplinary-perspectives-on-the-postwar-everyday-9781789202427","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}