What remains? : the dialectical identities of Eastern Germans /

What remains? : the dialectical identities of Eastern Germans / Joyce Marie Mushaben.

This book tells the story of the German Democratic Republic from the inside out, using the lens of generational change to deconstruct an intriguing array of social identities that had little to do with the official GDR version authoritarian rulers regularly sought to impose on their citizens. The au...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Springer)
Main Author: Mushaben, Joyce Marie, 1952- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2023]
Subjects:
Social change > Germany (East)
Social change > Germany.
Manners and customs.
Social change.
Social conditions.
Germany (East) > Social life and customs.
Germany (East) > Social conditions.
Germany > Social conditions > 1990-
Germany.
Germany (East)
Table of Contents:
  • Part I. DIMENSIONS OF THE DIALECTICAL IDENTITY
  • Chapter One Exit, Voice and Loyalty: The Theoretical Parameters: Introduction
  • 2. Selection by Consequences: What it meant to be GDR-German
  • II. THE DECONSTRUCTION OF GDR-IDENITY
  • Chapter Three Now out of Never: Exit, Voice and the Revolutionary Bandwagon
  • Chapter Four Real-existing Socialism: Daily Life, Consumer Culture and Vitamin B
  • III. RECONSTRUCTING EAST-GERMAN IDENTITY: SuBcultures
  • Chapter Five Heimatgefhl and the Reconfiguration of Civil Society
  • Chapter Six Conscience of the Nation: Writers, Artisans and the Fate of Intellectuals
  • Chapter Seven From Losers to Winners, and Back: The Stasi, Pastors and Dissidents
  • Chapter Eight East German Women: From State Paternalism to Private Patriarchy
  • Chapter Nine The Anti-Political Identities of "Unified" Youth
  • Chapter Ten No Country for Old Men: The Rise of the AfD
  • Chapter 11 The Dialectical Identities of Germans United
  • Epilogue: The Post-Merkel Era
  • Appendix A: Interview Questionnaire.

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