Author

Publication

2018 - Berghahn Books, Incorporated

Language

English

Word Count

92,000 words, Guess

Page Count

368 pages

Identifiers

Classifications

  • LCCDD282 .S385 2018

Description

Since unification, eastern Germany has witnessed a rapidly changing memorial landscape, as the fate of former socialist monuments has been hotly debated and new commemorative projects have met with fierce controversy. Memorializing the GDR provides the first in-depth study of this contested arena of public memory, investigating the individuals and groups devoted to the creation or destruction of memorials as well as their broader aesthetic, political, and historical contexts. Emphasizing the interrelationship of built environment, memory and identity, it brings to light the conflicting memories of recent German history, as well as the nuances of national and regional constructions of identity.

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Other Editions

  • Memorializing the GDR: Monuments and Memory After 1989Berghahn Books, Incorporated2018-01-01

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