Dresden: Paradoxes of memory in history.

Title: Dresden: Paradoxes of memory in history.
Identifier: AAI9732979
identifier: 9732979
Creator: Ten Dyke, Elizabeth A.
Contributor: Adviser: Gerald Sider
Date: 1997
Language: English
Publisher: City University of New York.
Subject: Anthropology, Cultural | History, European
Abstract: This study is an ethnographic investigation of social and cultural aspects of memory and history in Dresden (eastern) Germany during 1991-2. The collapse of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) in 1989 forced men and women of all ages into an abrupt and painful confrontation with their personal pasts as well as their national, cultural and political histories. Oral history interviews and ethnographic case studies illustrate how many of the themes which emerged in debates about the past in the former GDR reprise unresolved issues in German history. These include the goals of socialism, the nature of daily life under what some consider to have been a dictatorship, and the complicity of ordinary people with the state. In the concluding chapter the author explores paradoxes of memory in history expressed in this empirical study of social change, personal memory, and the politics of historical representation.
Type: dissertation
Source: PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
degree: Ph.D.