Since Unification and the end of the Cold War, Berlin has witnessed a series of uncommonly intense social, political, and cultural transformations. While positioning itself as a creative center populated by young and cosmopolitan global citizens, the "New Berlin" is at the same time a rich site of historical memory, defined inescapably by its past even as it articulates German and European hopes for the future. Cultural Topographies of the New Berlin presents a fascinating cross-section of life in Germany's largest city, revealing the complex ways in which globalization, ethnicity, economics,…mehr
Since Unification and the end of the Cold War, Berlin has witnessed a series of uncommonly intense social, political, and cultural transformations. While positioning itself as a creative center populated by young and cosmopolitan global citizens, the "New Berlin" is at the same time a rich site of historical memory, defined inescapably by its past even as it articulates German and European hopes for the future. Cultural Topographies of the New Berlin presents a fascinating cross-section of life in Germany's largest city, revealing the complex ways in which globalization, ethnicity, economics, memory, and national identity inflect how its urban spaces are inhabited and depicted.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Karin Bauer is Professor of German Studies at McGill University and former editor of Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies. Her publications include Adorno's Nietzschean Narratives: Critiques of Ideology, Readings of Wagner and Everybody Talks about the Weather: We Don't, along with numerous articles on critical theory and contemporary German literature and culture.
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Illustrations Introduction Karin Bauer and Jennifer Ruth Hosek PART I: CONTESTING GENTRIFICATION: SUBCULTURE TO MAINSTREAM Chapter 1. Cultural History of Post-Wall Berlin: From Utopian Longing to Nostalgia for Babylon Katrina Sark Chapter 2. Taking a Walk on the Wild Side: Berlin and Christiane F.'s Second Life Susan Ingram Chapter 3. Representations and Interpretations of "The New Berlin" in Contemporary German Comics Lynn Marie Kutch PART II: SPACES, MONUMENTS, AND THE APPROPRIATION OF HISTORY Chapter 4. Reconfiguring the Spaces of the "Creative Class" in Contemporary Berlin Simon Ward Chapter 5. Negotiating Cold War Legacies: The Discursive Ambiguity of Berlin's Memory Sites Stefanie Eisenhuth and Scott H. Krause Chapter 6. Branding the New Germany-The Brandenburg Gate and a New Kind of German Historical Amnesia Sarah Pogoda and Rüdiger Traxler Chapter 7. Disappearing History: Challenges of Imagining Berlin after 1989 Ayse N. Erek and Eszter Gantner PART III: RE-IMAGINING INTEGRATION Chapter 8. Governing through "Ethnic Entrepreneurship" Baris Ülker Chapter 9. Resisting Integration: Neukölln Artist Responses to Integration Politics Johanna Schuster-Craig Chapter 10. The Revival of Diasporic Hebrew in Contemporary Berlin Hila Amit Chapter 11. Berlin's International Literature Festival: Globalizing the Bildungsbürger Marike Janzen PART IV: BERLIN MEMORYSCAPES OF THE PRESENT Chapter 12. Transnational Cityscapes: Tracking Turkish-German Hi/Stories in Postwar Berlin Christiane Steckenbiller Chapter 13. Israeli Jews in the New Berlin: From Shoah Memories to Middle Eastern Encounters Hadas Cohen and Dani Kranz Chapter 14. Through the Eyes of Angels and Vampires: Berlin Ruins in Wings of Desire and We Are the Night Peter Gölz Chapter 15. The Uncanny City: Berlin in International Film Andre Schütze Index
Illustrations Introduction Karin Bauer and Jennifer Ruth Hosek PART I: CONTESTING GENTRIFICATION: SUBCULTURE TO MAINSTREAM Chapter 1. Cultural History of Post-Wall Berlin: From Utopian Longing to Nostalgia for Babylon Katrina Sark Chapter 2. Taking a Walk on the Wild Side: Berlin and Christiane F.'s Second Life Susan Ingram Chapter 3. Representations and Interpretations of "The New Berlin" in Contemporary German Comics Lynn Marie Kutch PART II: SPACES, MONUMENTS, AND THE APPROPRIATION OF HISTORY Chapter 4. Reconfiguring the Spaces of the "Creative Class" in Contemporary Berlin Simon Ward Chapter 5. Negotiating Cold War Legacies: The Discursive Ambiguity of Berlin's Memory Sites Stefanie Eisenhuth and Scott H. Krause Chapter 6. Branding the New Germany-The Brandenburg Gate and a New Kind of German Historical Amnesia Sarah Pogoda and Rüdiger Traxler Chapter 7. Disappearing History: Challenges of Imagining Berlin after 1989 Ayse N. Erek and Eszter Gantner PART III: RE-IMAGINING INTEGRATION Chapter 8. Governing through "Ethnic Entrepreneurship" Baris Ülker Chapter 9. Resisting Integration: Neukölln Artist Responses to Integration Politics Johanna Schuster-Craig Chapter 10. The Revival of Diasporic Hebrew in Contemporary Berlin Hila Amit Chapter 11. Berlin's International Literature Festival: Globalizing the Bildungsbürger Marike Janzen PART IV: BERLIN MEMORYSCAPES OF THE PRESENT Chapter 12. Transnational Cityscapes: Tracking Turkish-German Hi/Stories in Postwar Berlin Christiane Steckenbiller Chapter 13. Israeli Jews in the New Berlin: From Shoah Memories to Middle Eastern Encounters Hadas Cohen and Dani Kranz Chapter 14. Through the Eyes of Angels and Vampires: Berlin Ruins in Wings of Desire and We Are the Night Peter Gölz Chapter 15. The Uncanny City: Berlin in International Film Andre Schütze Index
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