'Ich lebe nicht wirklich in dieser Zeit': Negotiations of National and Local Identities in Elfriede Brüning's Post-'Wende' Writings

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Author: Sayner, Joanne

Source: German Monitor, Local/Global Narratives. Edited by Renate Rechtien and Karoline von Oppen , pp. 317-331(15)

Publisher: Rodopi

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Abstract:

This article analyses the shifting local and national allegiances in Elfriede Brüning's autobiographical text of 1999, Jeder lebt für sich allein. Nachwende-Notizen. It explores how the volume thematises competing notions of national identity through recourse to the past, particularly within a context of increasing globalisation of Holocaust remembrance. It argues that contemporary hegemonic narratives of the national are resisted through a prioritisation oflocalised (East German) antifascist and gender identities. Finally, it examines how the text negotiates claims to representativeness and identification through wider gender and generational identities.

Document Type: Research article

Publication date: 2007-08-01