Debating German Cultural Identity Since 1989

List of contents

Introduction - Anne Fuchs and Kathleen James-Chakraborty and Linda Shortt
1989 and the Chronological Imagination - Peter Fritzsche
Unity on Trial: The Mauerschützenprozesse 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 Gokturk
Beyond the Wall: Reunifying Berlin - Kathleen James-Chakraborty
The Rebirth of Historic Dresden - Jürgen Paul
Labyrinths, Mazes, and Mosaics: Fiction by Christa Wolf, Ingo Schulze, Antje Rávic 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 Unification in Angela Kraussand Monika Maron - Anja Johannsen
Cultural Topography and Emotional Legacies in Durs Grünbein's Dresden Poetry - Anne Fuchs
History from a Bird's Eye View: Reimagining the Past in Marcel Beyer's Kaltenburg - Aleida Assmann
Works Cited
Notes on the Contributors
Index

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Anne Fuchs, Kathleen James-Chakraborty, Linda Shortt

Product details

• Authors: Anne Fuchs
• Assisted by: Anne Fuchs (Editor), Kathleen James-Chakraborty (Editor), Linda Shortt (Editor)
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.12.2011
• EAN: 9781571134868
• ISBN: 978-1-57113-486-8
• No. of pages: 264
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 19 mm
• Weight: 562 g
• Series: Studies in German Literature L
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Deutsch, Deutschland, Europäische Geschichte, HISTORY / Europe / Germany, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / German, Literature - Classics / Criticism, LITERARY CRITICISM / Comparative Literature