Narrating the everyday : television, memory and the subjunctive in the GDR, 1969-1989
- Submitting institution
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The University of Warwick
- Unit of assessment
- 26 - Modern Languages and Linguistics
- Output identifier
- 12673
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- C - Chapter in book
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- Book title
- German division as shared experience : interdisciplinary perspectives on the postwar everyday
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books
- ISBN
- 9781789202427
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- June
- Year of publication
- 2019
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Additional information
- Palmowski’s chapter is a contribution to the collective volume Experiencing Postwar Germany: Everyday Life and Cultural Practice in the Two Germanies, 1960 – 2000, which he co-edited with Carter and Schreiter. What was it that connected Germans through decades of separation through the Iron Curtain? Why did they want to unify after forty years of separation? Far more scholarly emphasis has been put on understanding the two German states in their distinctiveness than on appreciating their commonalities and shared cultures. Palmowski and his co-editors sought to make across the volume as a whole a mutlifaceted argument that a key distinctiveness shared by Germans lay in their everyday experience. Beneath the political, social and economic division of Germany, and including German communities beyond the FRG and GDR, Germans shared experiences, narratives and aesthetics in how they made sense of the world and constructed meanings for their everyday life. Their volume explores this argument through television, film, experimental art, painting, food, music, and literature. It looks at everyday experience through taste, feeling, smell, sound and seeing, across a range of settings – the allotment garden, the village, the metropolis (Berlin). In choosing authors and subject-matter for chapters, the editors examined different, but complementary, modes of everyday experience. Their co-written introduction and conclusion are based on interdisciplinary discussions, extending over five years, about how different disciplines could help reframe everyday experience, including with other colleagues in workshops, international conferences and interdisciplinary seminar series. What is new in their introduction and conclusion is the assertion that concepts such as narrative, asymmetrical temporalities, ‘political’ aesthetics and spatial practices can enrich our historical approach. Through these lenses they bring new questions and fresh perspectives to bear on our understanding of how Germans acted, felt, saw, tasted and understood across and beyond the iron curtain.
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- Non-English
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