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      The Search for Identity in Eastern Germany

      How Memory Divides

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      The Search for Identity in Eastern Germany
      ByJeremy Brooke Straughn
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2021
      eBook Published 10 May 2021
      Pub. Location London
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315109558
      Pages 228
      eBook ISBN 9781315109558
      Subjects Area Studies, Museum and Heritage Studies, Politics & International Relations, Social Sciences
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      Straughn, J.B. (2021). How Memory Divides: The Search for Identity in Eastern Germany (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315109558

      ABSTRACT

      This book examines the paradox of collective identity in eastern Germany in the wake of German reunification. Following the fall of the Berlin Wall, citizens of the former German Democratic Republic were confronted with a dilemma: Were they already Germans without qualification, like their compatriots in the West? Or did they remain "East Germans" for the time being, with an identity tied to their distinct past, as if they were foreigners who had migrated without leaving home? How Memory Divides shows that these questions remain unresolved even today, less because of any "incomplete unity" between Germans in West and East, than because of the contradictory ways in which "easterners" themselves have remembered their past. Drawing on a unique study spanning two decades, the author reveals how divergent biographical memories have given rise to life stories with a diverse array of genres and storylines at odds with official accounts of the GDR and its demise. Over time, efforts to effect unity between West and East have reproduced divisions within the East. This book will appeal to scholars and students of sociology and politics with interests in memory, heritage, and identity.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      part 1|58 pages

      Where Memory Divides

      chapter 1|37 pages

      Introduction

      chapter 2|19 pages

      Walls behind the Wall

      part 2|148 pages

      A Generation Divided

      chapter 3|36 pages

      Storyworlds Apart

      chapter 4|44 pages

      Scenes of an Ending

      chapter 5|35 pages

      “One was still so young then …”

      chapter 6|31 pages

      Conclusion

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