Divided Subjects, Invisible Borders details, through empirical and theoretical exposition, how the national unity of Germany after the Fall of the Berlin Wall conceals persistent division in the lives of eastern and western Germans. Series: Place, Memory, Affect. Num Pages: 326 pages, 8 black & white halftones, 1 tables. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJPR; 3JM; HBJD; JHB; JPFN; JPWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 160 x 34. Weight in Grams: 642. . 2015. Illustrated. hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Title: Divided Subjects, Invisible Borders: Re-Unified Germany After 1989 (Place, Memory, Affect)
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield International
Publication Date: 2015
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1783482419
ISBN 13: 9781783482412
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: New

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What do Germany’s memorials, films, artworks, memory debates and national commemorations tell us about the lives of Germans today? How did the Wall in the Head come to replace the Wall that fell in 1989?
The old identities of East and West, which all but dissolved in joyous embraces as the Berlin Wall fell, emerged once more after formal re-unification a year later in 1990. 2015 marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of that German re-unification. Yet Germany remains divided; a mutual distrust lingers, and national history remains contentious.
The material, social, cultural and psychic effects of re-unification on the lives of eastern and western Germans since 1989 all demand again asking fundamental questions about history, social change and ideology. Divided Subjects, Invisible Borders puts affective life at the centre of these questions, both in the role affect played in mobilizing East Germans to overthrow their regime and as a sign of disappointment after formal reunification. Using contemporary Germany as a lens the book explores broader debates about borders, memory and subjectivity.

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Ben Gook is Associate Investigator at the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions, University of Melbourne

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