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

This collection of fifteen essays revisits the question of German identity. Unlike previous books on this topic, however, it does not focus exclusively on national identity in the aftermath of Hitler. Instead, it concentrates on the plurality of ethnic, sexual, political, geographical, and cultural...

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Otros Autores: Taberner, Stuart (-), Finlay, Frank
Formato: Libro
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Rochester, NY : Camden House 2002
Edición:1st ed
Colección:Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture
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  • The new self-understanding of the Berlin Republic, Brunssen; filling the blanks - Berlin as a public showcase, Zitzlsperger; Das Kunsthaus Tacheles - the 1990s Berlin architecture debate in micro-historical context, Stewart; normalising cultural memory, Schoedel; "Glucklose Engel" - fictions of German history, Leeder; successful failure? The impact of the German Democratic Student Movement on the Federal Republic of Germany, Cornils; the PDS - CSU des Ostens? - Heimat and the Left, Thompson; "An Helligkeit Ragt In Europa Vor Allem Mei'Sachsenland Vor" - Prime Minister Biedenkopf and the myth of Saxon identity, Szejnmann; unifying a gendered state - women in post-1989 Germany, Lang; "Zugzwang" or "Stillstand", Ward; on the function of the foreign in the novels "Andere Umstande" and "Seit di Gotter ratlos sind", Skare; migration experiences and the construction of identity among Turks living in Germany, Kolinsky; diasporic identity in Emine Sevgi Ozdamar's "Mutterzunge", Littler; difficult stories - generation, genealogy, gender, Gerstenberger; drowning or waving - German literature today, Parkes.