Dresden: Paradoxes of Memory in HistoryThe collapse of the German Democratic Republic prompted the East Germans to confront their personal, cultural and international past. This study of the 'Wende' - the turn of events in 1989 - is based on ethnographic and anthropological research conducted in the early 1990s. Liz Ten Dyke has developed a finely nuanced portrait of the city and its residents as they were caught up in the economic, political and social turmoil that characterized the immediate post-socialist period. |
Contents
This study | 1 |
Ruins | 18 |
Working through the past in Germany | 27 |
History and memory in the unified | 44 |
Conclusion | 54 |
Dresden | 67 |
Frau Esperanto | 98 |
The ethnographic present | 105 |
Remembering daily life in the GDR | 163 |
report | 211 |
The Wende | 217 |
Paradoxes and Contradictions of Memory | 249 |
1999 | 259 |
Primary respondents | 265 |
References cited | 273 |
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