In the Shadows of a Fallen Wall
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In the Shadows of a Fallen Wall

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In the Shadows of a Fallen Wall

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Growing up, what Sanford Tweedie knew about East Germany was basically... nothing. West Germans were our friends; East Germans, the enemy. In 2000, somewhat better informed, Tweedie took advantage of a Fulbright Scholarship to move his family to the eastern German town of Erfurt for the academic year. Far from home and the familiar, with temporary status and a tenuous grasp of the language, he and his wife were curious to see how they would function shorn of all the rules that governed their daily lives—housing, food acquisition, transportation, and even basic communication. As soon as their taxi delivered them to their grim tan and concrete Soviet-vintage apartment building, they knew their education had begun.

Learning about life in the former East Germany, amid the feverish embrace of Western culture and the tenacious legacy of a totalitarian past, Tweedie comes to understand the deeper cultural assumptions through which Americans view the larger world. Part travelogue, part history, part cultural critique, all thoroughly engrossing, the story of his yearlong experience is one of dislocation and accommodation, making a German town his own and now ours.

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Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Year
2020
ISBN
9781496211033
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Social Science Biographies
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Introduction: The Walls in Our Heads
  7. 1. Breaking Down the Wall
  8. 2. But for the Weather
  9. 3. Leaving the American Sector
  10. 4. Concrete Details: Your Guide’s Tour of Erfurt
  11. 5. ALFS, Autos, and Encounters with the Polizei
  12. 6. Words Fail Me, Yet Again
  13. 7. Destinations and Wanderings
  14. 8. Field without Dreams: Baseball in the Former GDR
  15. 9. The Class That Doesn’t Exist in the Country That Once Did
  16. 10. Whatever You Do, Don’t Look Down
  17. 11. In Former Times
  18. Afterword: Echoes of a Fallen Wall