The Media of Testimony explores testimony relating to the Stasi in different cultural forms: autobiographical writing, memorial museums and documentary film. Combining theoretical models from diverse disciplines, it presents a new approach to the study of testimony, memory and mediation.
Inhoudsopgave
Acknowledgements Introduction 1. The Media of Testimony 2. Literary Autobiography and the Stories that Can’t be Told 3. Fragmented Auto/Biographies: Testifying with Many Voices 4. The Importance of ‘Being There’: Memorial Museums and Living the Past in the Present 5. Whose Memory Is It Anyway? Memorial Museums and Modes of Authority 6. Documentary Film: Being Moved by Memory Conclusion Notes Bibliography
Over de auteur
Sara Jones is Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham, UK. Her work focuses on the political, social and cultural processes of remembering state socialism in Germany and Central and Eastern Europe. She is the author of Complicity, Censorship and Criticism: Negotiating Space in the GDR Literary Sphere (2011).
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