Recasting German identity : culture, politics, and literature in the Berlin Republic /

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Imprint:Rochester, NY : Camden House, 2002.
Description:vi, 276 p. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Series:Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture
Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture (Unnumbered)
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4801296
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Other authors / contributors:Taberner, Stuart.
Finlay, Frank.
ISBN:1571132449 (alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Stuart Taberner
  • Berlin
  • The New Self-Understanding of the Berlin Republic: Readings of Contemporary German History / Frank Brunssen
  • Filling the Blanks: Berlin as a Public Showcase / Ulrike Zitzlsperger
  • Das Kunsthaus Tacheles: The Berlin Architecture Debate of the 1990s in Micro-Historical Context / Janet Stewart
  • Normalising Cultural Memory? The "Walser-Bubis Debate" and Martin Walser's Novel Ein springender Brunnen / Kathrin Schodel
  • Political Formations
  • "Glucklose Engel": Fictions of German History and the End of the German Democratic Republic / Karen Leeder
  • Successful Failure? The Impact of the German Student Movement on the Federal Republic of Germany / Ingo Cornils
  • The PDS: "CSU des Ostens"? - Heimat and the Left / Peter Thompson
  • "An Helligkeit ragt in Europa vor allem mei' Sachsenland vor": Prime Minister Biedenkopf and the Myth of Saxon Identity / Chris Szejnmann
  • Unifying a Gendered State: Women in Post-1989 Germany / Sabine Lang
  • Difference
  • "Zugzwang" or "Stillstand"? - Trains in the Post-1989 Fiction of Brigitte Struyzk, Reinhard Jirgl, and Wolfgang Hilbig / Simon Ward
  • On the Function of the Foreign in the Novels Andere Umstande (1998) by Grit Poppe and Seit die Gotter ratlos sind (1994) by Kerstin Jentzsch / Roswitha Skare
  • Migration Experiences and the Construction of Identity among Turks Living in Germany / Eva Kolinsky
  • Diasporic Identity in Emine Sevgi Ozdamar's Mutterzunge / Margaret Littler
  • Difficult Stories: Generation, Genealogy, Gender in Zafer Senocak's Gefahrliche Verwandtschaft and Monika Maron's Pawels Briefe / Katharina Gerstenberger
  • Drowning or Waving: German Literature Today / Stuart Parkes.