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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Fuchs, Anne, James-Chakraborty, Kathleen, 1960-, Shortt, Linda
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Rochester, N.Y. : Camden House, 2011.
Colección:Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.