UID:
almafu_9960989289802883
Format:
1 online resource (vi, 256 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
1-283-29648-9
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9786613296481
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1-57113-786-6
Series Statement:
Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture
Content:
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 the wider public engaged in "memory contests" over such questions as the legitimacy of alternative biographies, West German hegemony, and the normalization of German history. This dynamic, contested, and still ongoing transformation of German cultural identity is the topic of this volume of new essays by scholars from the United Kingdom, Germany, the United States, and Ireland. It explores German cultural identity by way of a range of disciplines including history, film studies, architectural history, literary criticism, memory studies, and anthropology, avoiding a homogenized interpretation. Charting the complex and often contradictory processes of cultural identity formation, the volume reveals the varied responses that continue to accompany the project of unification.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 10 Feb 2023).
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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.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-57113-486-7
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9781571137869
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