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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.

List of contents

Acknowledgements / Introduction - Just another Country in Europe? / Part I: Another New Beginning / 1. End of Story: Nachträglichkeit and the German Past / 2. The German Ideology: Identity, Fantasy, Affect / Conclusion: Reconciliation, Reconstruction, Re-unification / Part II: The Past that Outlived Itself / 3. Really-Existing Nostalgia: Transitions, Fetishes and Objects / 4. Disintegration and Ambivalence: Berlin and Leipzig / Conclusion: Desired and Denied / Part III: The Lives of Ossis on Film / 5. The Lives of Others -¿Imitations of Life / 6. Good Bye Lenin! -¿Too Soon, Too Late / 7. Material -¿Something is Left Over / Conclusion / Part IV: Remembering, Commemorating / 8. In the Gallery: Aesthetics and Memory Contests / 9. In the Street: Commemoration and Interpassivity / Conclusion: In the End... / Conclusion - Another New Ending / Bibliography/ Index

About the author

Ben Gook is Associate Investigator at the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions, University of Melbourne

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Ben Gook, Gook Ben
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.05.2015
• EAN: 9781783482429
• ISBN: 978-1-78348-242-9
• Series: Place, Memory, Affect; Place, Memory, Affect
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Sociology, HISTORY / Europe / Germany, European History, Germany, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / General, Nationalism, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, 21st Century, 21st century, c 2000 to c 2100, Revolutionary groups & movements, c 1990 to c 2000, c 1990 to c 1999, Revolutionary groups and movements, HISTORY / Revolutions, Uprisings & Rebellions