The GDR Today promotes interdisciplinary approaches to East Germany by
gathering articles from a new generation of scholars in the fields of
literary and visual studies, history, sociology, translation studies,
political science, museum studies and curating practice. The
contributors to this volume argue that it is necessary to transgress
disciplinary boundaries to escape the gridlocked categories of GDR
scholarship. Exploring East German everyday life, cultural policies,
memory and memorialization, the volume aims to reinvigorate the study of
the GDR. Through the combination and juxtaposition of different
approaches to East Germany, it overcomes intra-disciplinary conceptual
binaries and revitalizes debates about the very concepts we use to
understand life under late twentieth-century state socialism.