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Divided Nation/s : Germany's Partition in American Novels.
Most American novels set in Germany and published after 1949 take place in West Germany and present it as a 'pars pro toto' for all of Germany, apparently ignoring Germany's partition. However, just when the Wall that divided the two parts of Germany fell, Germany's partition and...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Heidelberg :
Universitätsverlag Winter,
2014.
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| Colección: | American Studies - A Monograph Series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgements; Introduction: The Long Omission and the Sudden Appearance of the Wall; Part I: Germany's Partition in U.S. American Novels before 1989; Germany's Partition and German-American Relations during the Cold War. A Brief Historical Overview; Germanys Partition in American Genre Fiction, 1949-1989; "The victorious troops of the world's greatest power": Cold War Politics in James McGovern's Romance Novel Fräulein; "East Germany isn't a very nice place": Pro-American Discourses in James McGovern's The Berlin Couriers and James Cross' The Dark Road.
- Part II: Divided Germany, the Berlin Wall, and German Reunification in U.S. American Novels after 1989The Fall of the Berlin Wall and the Relations Between the US. and Germany after 1989. A Brief Cultural Overview; Cold War Propaganda after the End of the Cold War; "With God ..., one is able to leap over walls": German-American Relations and Christian Bias in Robert Elmer's The Wall Series
- Sexual and Gender Ambiguities; "This once-divided city reminds me of myself": Gender Ambiguity in Jeffrey Eugenides' Middlesex
- "Apparently this era, which is perhaps really an era of betweenness, is ending": Coming-of-Age and Bisexuality in J.S. Marcus' The Captain's FireThe Treatment of Cultural and Ethnic Others; "Ignorance resultant from a lack of exposure": Racial Tensions, Exclusionary Practices, and Freedom in Paul Beatty's Slumberland
- History, Storytelling, and National Narratives; "One nation, still two peoples": National Narratives and Splits in Ward Just's The Weather in Berlin
- "It was chaos that brought down the Wall": Chaos Theory and Historical Storytelling in T. Degens' ""Freya on the Wall""The Exile's Question of Home and National (Not)Belongings after 9/11; "Homes are always provisional": Exile Experiences in Chloe Aridjis' Book of Clouds; "It isn't possible to be Jewish and German at the same time": Bi-national Discourses and Place in Anna Winger's This Must Be the Place; Conclusion: Closing the Gap; List of U.S. American Texts about Germany's Partition; Works Cited.