Dear Colleagues,
The October issue of German Life and Letters is now available. This Special
Number on 'Cityscapes of the GDR', which contains over 40 illustrations, is
edited by Renate Rechtien.
For abstracts and further details visit:
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/glal.2010.63.issue-4/issuetoc
John Sandford
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CONTENTS
Introduction: Cityscapes of the German Democratic Republic - An
Interdisciplinary Approach (Renate Rechtien)
Obsolescence and the Cityscape of the Former GDR (Simon Ward)
Selective Memory: Contesting Architecture and Urbanism at Potsdam's
Stadtschloss and Alter Markt (Adam Sharr)
Transformationsraum Fotografie: Berlin-Hellersdorf am Übergang von DDR zu
BRD (Svea Bräunert)
The Ghosts of Lenin, Thälmann and Marx in the Post-Socialist Cityscape
(Anna Saunders)
Antagonistic Dwellings: Surveillance in Stasi Germany - An Art Project (Pam
Skelton)
The Topography of the Self in Christa Wolf's Der geteilte Himmel (Renate
Rechtien)
Space, Time and Power: The Chronotopes of Uwe Tellkamp's Der Turm (David
Clarke)
Kerstin Hensel's Insecure Borders: Shame and the Surface of Subject and
City in Tanz am Kanal (Annie Ring)
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