Debating German cultural identity since 1989
By: edited by Anne Fuchs, Kathleen James-Chakraborty, and Linda Shortt
Series: Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture
Publisher: Camden House
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Rochester, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781571134868
Subjects: Collective memory; Cultural policy; Group identity; Literature and society; German literature; History and criticism; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Anne Fuchs, Kathleen James-Chakraborty, and Linda Shortt; title: 1989 and the chronological imagination / Peter Fritzsche; title: Unity on trial : the Mauerschutzenprozesse and the East-West rifts of unified Germany / Pertti Ahonen; title: Apples, identity, and memory in post-1989 Germany / Jennifer A. Jordan; title: Topographical turns : recasting Berlin in Christian Petzold's Gespenster / Andrew J. Webber; title: Interrupting unity : the Berlin Wall's second life on screen, a transnational perspective / Deniz Gokurk; title: Beyond the Wall : reunifying Berlin / Kathleen James-Chakraborty; title: The rebirth of historic Dresden / Jurgen Paul; title: Labyrinths, mazes, and mosaics : fictions by Christa Wolf, Ingo Schulze, Antje Ravic Strubel, and Jens Sparschuh / Elizabeth Boa; title: Reimagining the West : West Germany, Westalgia, and the generation of 1978 / Linda Shortt; title: "Dem sichtbaren war nicht ganz zu trauen" : poetic reflections on German reunification in Angela Krauss and Monika Maron / Anja K. Johannsen; title: Cultural topography and emotional legacies in Durs Grunbein's Dresden poetry / Anne Fuchs; title: History from a bird's eye view : reimagining the past in Marcel Beyer's Kaltenburg / Aleida Assmann.