UID:
almahu_9947413806802882
Format:
1 online resource (x, 209 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
9781571138101 (ebook)
Content:
The wall was still coming down when critics began to call for the great Berlin novel that could explain what was happening to Germany and the Germans. Such a novel never appeared. Instead, writers have created a patchwork imaginary - in the form of about 300 works of fiction set in Berlin - of a city and a nation whose identity collapsed virtually overnight. Contributors to this literary collage include established writers like Peter Schneider and Christa Wolf, young authors like Tanja Dückers and Ingo Schramm, German-Turkish authors Zafer Senocak and Yadé Kara, and the Austrians Kathrin Röggla and Marlene Streeruwitz. The non-arrival of the great Berlin novel marks the reorientation in German culture and literature that is the focus of this study: the experience of unification was too diverse, too postmodern, too influenced by global developments to be captured by one novel. Berlin literature of the postunification decade is marked by ambiguity: change is linked to questions of historical continuity; postmodern simulation finds its counterpart in a quest for authenticity; and the assimilation of Germanness into European and global contexts is both liberation and loss. This book pursues a nuanced understanding of the search for new ways to tell the story of Germany's past and of its importance for the formation of a new German identity. Katharina Gerstenberger is associate professor of German at the University of Cincinnati.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).
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Introduction: newness and its discontents: Berlin literature in the 1990s and beyond -- Erotic sites: sexual topographies after the Wall -- Bodies and borders: the monsters of Berlin -- Multicultural Germans and Jews of many cultures: imagining "Jewish Berlin" -- Goodbye to East Berlin -- Looking for perspectives: the construction at Potsdamer Platz.
Additional Edition:
Print version: ISBN 9781571133816
Language:
English
URL:
http://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/9781571138101/type/BOOK
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