1st Edition
How Memory Divides The Search for Identity in Eastern Germany
By Jeremy Brooke Straughn
Copyright 2021
228 Pages
4 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
228 Pages
4 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
228 Pages
4 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
Part 1: Where Memory Divides
1. Introduction
2. Walls Behind the Wall
Part 2: A Generation Divided
3. Storyworlds Apart
4. Scenes of an Ending
5. "One was still so young then…"
6. Conclusion
Biography
Jeremy Brooke Straughn is Associate Professor of Transnational Studies at Westminster College, USA, where he teaches sociology and transnational studies and directs the Churchill Institute for Global Engagement.
