Socialist Subjectivities
Socialist Subjectivities works within the logics of queer time to reanimate East German subjectivities in the 1970s and 1980s beyond the narrative of the German Democratic Republic’s long march towards demise. While East Germany certainly ended in dissolution, not all East Germans experienced late s...
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| description | Socialist Subjectivities works within the logics of queer time to reanimate East German subjectivities in the 1970s and 1980s beyond the narrative of the German Democratic Republic’s long march towards demise. While East Germany certainly ended in dissolution, not all East Germans experienced late socialism in a singular manner. Rather, even after a generation of building socialism, East Germans under Honecker continued to pursue a range of socialist presents and a multiplicity of socialist futures up to and beyond 1989. This edited volume utilizes queer temporalities to interrogate how individuals lived non-normative possibilities in a highly normative world.
Whether one was an apparatchik, artist, or alcoholic, the everyday interactions, experiences, and rituals of late socialism proved crucial to establishing the conditions around which subjecthood was constructed. Despite stereotypes of apathy and inertia, East Germans lent a considerable dynamism to their society, and by generating a cacophony of opinions and a heterogeneity of ideas, they constantly transformed state socialism. By foregrounding socialist subjects and the iterative nature of socialism during these decades, this volume paints a richer portrait of East Germany—one that illuminates how East Germans imagined their futures in a society whose collapse they could not foresee. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1591592025-05-14T04:02:12Z Socialist Subjectivities White, Katharine Harrison, Scott Hayton, Jeff East Germany, German Democratic Republic, Socialism, Subjectivities, Queer Theory, Queer Time, Erich Honecker, Collapse, 1989, Memory Studies, Cold War, Germany, Nazism, Post-Socialism, Eastern Europe, Central Europe, Communism Socialist Subjectivities works within the logics of queer time to reanimate East German subjectivities in the 1970s and 1980s beyond the narrative of the German Democratic Republic’s long march towards demise. While East Germany certainly ended in dissolution, not all East Germans experienced late socialism in a singular manner. Rather, even after a generation of building socialism, East Germans under Honecker continued to pursue a range of socialist presents and a multiplicity of socialist futures up to and beyond 1989. This edited volume utilizes queer temporalities to interrogate how individuals lived non-normative possibilities in a highly normative world. Whether one was an apparatchik, artist, or alcoholic, the everyday interactions, experiences, and rituals of late socialism proved crucial to establishing the conditions around which subjecthood was constructed. Despite stereotypes of apathy and inertia, East Germans lent a considerable dynamism to their society, and by generating a cacophony of opinions and a heterogeneity of ideas, they constantly transformed state socialism. By foregrounding socialist subjects and the iterative nature of socialism during these decades, this volume paints a richer portrait of East Germany—one that illuminates how East Germans imagined their futures in a society whose collapse they could not foresee. 2025-05-09T08:52:17Z 2025-05-09T08:52:17Z 2025-05-08T08:53:54Z 2025 book https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/101364 9780472077366 9780472057368 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/159159 eng Social History, Popular Culture, And Politics In Germany open access image/jpeg image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/101364/1/9780472904969.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/101364/1/9780472904969.pdf University of Michigan Press 10.3998/mpub.14406207 10.3998/mpub.14406207 b7359529-e5f7-4510-a59f-d7dafa1d4d17 9780472077366 9780472057368 363 open access |
| spellingShingle | East Germany, German Democratic Republic, Socialism, Subjectivities, Queer Theory, Queer Time, Erich Honecker, Collapse, 1989, Memory Studies, Cold War, Germany, Nazism, Post-Socialism, Eastern Europe, Central Europe, Communism Socialist Subjectivities |
| title | Socialist Subjectivities |
| title_full | Socialist Subjectivities |
| title_fullStr | Socialist Subjectivities |
| title_full_unstemmed | Socialist Subjectivities |
| title_short | Socialist Subjectivities |
| title_sort | socialist subjectivities |
| topic | East Germany, German Democratic Republic, Socialism, Subjectivities, Queer Theory, Queer Time, Erich Honecker, Collapse, 1989, Memory Studies, Cold War, Germany, Nazism, Post-Socialism, Eastern Europe, Central Europe, Communism |
| topic_facet | East Germany, German Democratic Republic, Socialism, Subjectivities, Queer Theory, Queer Time, Erich Honecker, Collapse, 1989, Memory Studies, Cold War, Germany, Nazism, Post-Socialism, Eastern Europe, Central Europe, Communism |
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