Debating German cultural identity since 1989 /
The events of 1989 and German unification were seismic historical moments. Although 1989 appeared to signify a healing of the war-torn history of the twentieth century, unification posed the question of German cultural identity afresh. Politicians, historians, writers, filmmakers, architects, and th...
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Rochester, N.Y. :
Camden House,
2011.
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| Series: | Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Anne Fuchs, Kathleen James-Chakraborty, and Linda Shortt
- 1989 and the chronological imagination / Peter Fritzsche
- Unity on trial : the Mauerschutzenprozesse and the East-West rifts of unified Germany / Pertti Ahonen
- Apples, identity, and memory in post-1989 Germany / Jennifer A. Jordan
- Topographical turns : recasting Berlin in Christian Petzold's Gespenster / Andrew J. Webber
- Interrupting unity : the Berlin Wall's second life on screen, a transnational perspective / Deniz Gokurk
- Beyond the Wall : reunifying Berlin / Kathleen James-Chakraborty
- The rebirth of historic Dresden / Jurgen Paul
- Labyrinths, mazes, and mosaics : fictions by Christa Wolf, Ingo Schulze, Antje Ravic Strubel, and Jens Sparschuh / Elizabeth Boa
- Reimagining the West : West Germany, Westalgia, and the generation of 1978 / Linda Shortt
- "Dem sichtbaren war nicht ganz zu trauen" : poetic reflections on German reunification in Angela Krauss and Monika Maron / Anja K. Johannsen
- Cultural topography and emotional legacies in Durs Grunbein's Dresden poetry / Anne Fuchs
- History from a bird's eye view : reimagining the past in Marcel Beyer's Kaltenburg / Aleida Assmann.