Cultural Topographies of the New Berlin (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Bauer, Karin; Hosek, Jennifer Ruth

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 420
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781785337215
• Artikelnr.: 50376378

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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