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1 Online-Ressource (xii, 245 pages)
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ISBN:
9780511519468
Series Statement:
Cambridge studies in German
Content:
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
Content:
Introduction: locating the nation -- Searching for Germany in the 1980s -- A third path? -- Literature and politics -- Literature and the Stasi -- The rebirth of tragedy -- The defense of childhood and the guilt of the fathers -- The time and the place of the nation
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521660549
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521027847
Additional Edition:
Print version ISBN 9780521660549
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511519468
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