What Remains: Everyday Encounters with the Socialist Past in Germany

by Jonathan Bach

Book Overview

What happens when an entire modern state's material culture becomes abruptly obsolete? How do ordinary people encounter what remains? In this ethnography, Jonathan Bach examines the afterlife of East Germany following the fall of the Berlin Wall, as things and places from that vanished socialist past continue to circulate and shape the politics of memory. What Remains traces the unsettling effects of these unmoored artifacts on the German present,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231182708
• ISBN13: 9780231182706
• Release Date: August 2017
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.8" x 8.6"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher