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Pinkert, Anke Pinkert, Anke Fritzsche, Peter A. Johnson, Laurie R. Niekerk, Carl Yildiz, Yasemin Criser, Regine 2013-08-22T16:35:56Z 2013-08-22T16:35:56Z 2013-08 2013-08-22T16:35:56Z 2013-08 Scholars emphasize concepts of trauma and loss to describe literary responses to the collapse of socialism in 1989. In contrast, focusing on literary representations of family, this project reveals productive coping mechanisms developed in German literature after 1989. In artistic representation, family marks the site where the GDR’s dissolution and new post-1989 beginnings are negotiated. I draw on the concepts of agency, memory, and space to show how the historical transformation in 1989 affected existing family structures and how narrative family representations negotiate the historical meaning of 1989. Situated at the intersection of literature, cultural studies, and history, this project shows how family representations constitute a privileged site of post-socialist renewals. Item withdrawn by Mark Zulauf (zulauf@illinois.edu) on 2013-07-03T19:01:31Z Item was in collections: University of Illinois Theses & Dissertations (ID: 1) No. of bitstreams: 2 Criser_Regine.docx: 473965 bytes, checksum: 999edf39e20109f2fb0b1ae4c1c06d7f (MD5) Criser_Regine.pdf: 1727549 bytes, checksum: fe875c1e31ba86293566c661fc72f4c7 (MD5) Made available in DSpace on 2013-08-22T16:35:56Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 3 Regine_Criser.pdf: 1731216 bytes, checksum: 211abc305bf9cb455ae1552594a9dd4e (MD5) Criser_Regine.docx: 473820 bytes, checksum: 6a1025ef97599a29df82ab92b0bfed3a (MD5) license.txt: 4060 bytes, checksum: bfd6de98eb45a8dafa611fb073c656d8 (MD5) http://hdl.handle.net/2142/45312 en Copyright 2013 Regine Criser Family Space Agency Memory Post-Socialist Germany Post-1989 German Literature Contemporary German Literature Renegotiating history: representations of the family in post-1989 German literature text Germanic Languages & Lit 1927 German 0303 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Dissertation Ph.D. PHD:German -UIUC 10KS0303PHD