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Access Type
WSU Access
Date of Award
January 2023
Degree Type
Dissertation
Degree Name
Ph.D.
Department
Classical and Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
First Advisor
Lisabeth Hock
Abstract
In this study, I add to existing scholarship in East German studies by contributing to our overall understanding of post-unification depictions of the East and the West and the ways in which competing representations of East Germans relate to one another. I will examine the development of the East German cultural imagination to determine if and how western discourse has influenced artists of East German origin and will contribute to discourse on stereotypes and counter-stereotypes as well as on post-colonialism and how it functions multi-directionally. I demonstrate how both the demonization of the GDR and extremes of Ostalgie diminished over time as East Germans took control of public discourse and disseminated more nuanced depictions of the GDR past.
Recommended Citation
Peet, Corrina Marie, "Embracing Otherness: Counter-Colonial Discourses And Practices In Post-Unification East German Culture" (2023). Wayne State University Dissertations. 3843.
https://digitalcommons.wayne.edu/oa_dissertations/3843