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Introduction: The Importance and Diversity of Cultural Memory in the GDR Context - George Dennis Tate
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
"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 Mutter Vater Roman - Arne de Winde
"Der Schrei des Marsyas": The Mythic Voices of the Subaltern in Reinhard Jirgl's Mutter Vater Roman - Frederik Van Dam
An Early Challenge to the Construction of Cross-Border Romance in Post-1989 Film: Andreas Dresen's So schnelles geht nach Istanbul - Rosemary Stott
Mediating Immediacy: Historicizing the GDR by Bringing It Back to Life in Postmillennial 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 träumten - Gillian Pye
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 Koehler
Parallels and Divergences in Post-1989 Memory Discourse: A Comparative Review of the Slovak Experience - Nadezda Zemanikova
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
Notes on the Contributors
Index
About the author
Renate Rechtien, Dennis Tate