Literature and German Reunification

Klappentext This book is a systematic attempt to examine the literary consequences of German reunification. Placing the concept of the Kulturnation at the centre of its analysis, the book explores the ways in which literature both responds to and helps to constitute notions of German national identity. Previous studies of German literature have tended to avoid the problem of nationhood: this is one of the few books in any language to treat contemporary Germany as a cultural and national unity. The book discusses German literature from the early 1980s through the late 1990s, with a primary focus on the way in which authors of the 1990s have sought to cope with and respond to reunification and emerging questions about history, politics and identity. Larger questions are addressed about the role of both the nation and a national literature in the context of economic and political globalization. Zusammenfassung This is a full-length study of the literary consequences of German reunification! and one of the few to treat contemporary Germany as a cultural and national unity. It discusses ways in which authors accommodate their national history and identity! and wider concepts of nationhood and national literatures. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments; Introduction: locating the nation; 1. Searching for Germany in the 1980s; 2. A third path? 3. Literature and politics; 4. Literature and the Stasi; 5. The rebirth of tragedy?; 6. The defense of childhood and the guilt of the fathers; 7. The time and the place of the nation; Notes; Works cited; Index.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Stephen Brockmann, Stephen (Carnegie Mellon University Brockmann, Brockmann Stephen, Brockmann Stephen
• Mitarbeit: H. B. Nisbet (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 07.10.1999
• EAN: 9780521660549
• ISBN: 978-0-521-66054-9
• Seiten: 260
• Serien: Cambridge Studies in German; Cambridge Studies in German
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Deutsche Sprachwissenschaft / Deutschsprachige Literaturwissenschaft; Germany, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / German, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, german, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000