Debating German Cultural Identity since 1989 (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Fuchs, Anne; Shortt, Linda; James-Chakraborty, Kathleen

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Produktbeschreibung

Interdisciplinary views of the debates over and transformation of German cultural identity since unification.

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 exploresGerman 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.

Contributors: Pertti Ahonen, Aleida Assmann, Elizabeth Boa,Peter Fritzsche, Anne Fuchs, Deniz Göktürk, Kathleen James-Chakraborty, Anja K. Johannsen, Jennifer A. Jordan, Jürgen Paul, Linda Shortt, Andrew J. Webber. Anne Fuchs is Professor of German Literature at the University of St.Andrews, Scotland. Kathleen James-Chakraborty is Professor of Art History at University College Dublin, Ireland. Linda Shortt is Lecturer in German at Bangor University, Wales.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wits University Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781571137869
• Artikelnr.: 63918388

Autorenporträt

Anne Fuchs, Kathleen James-Chakraborty, Linda Shortt

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Anne Fuchs and Kathleen James
Chakraborty and Linda Shortt 1989 and the Chronological Imagination
Peter Fritzsche Unity on Trial: The Mauerschützenprozesse 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 Gokturk Beyond the Wall: Reunifying Berlin
Kathleen James
Chakraborty The Rebirth of Historic Dresden
Jürgen Paul Labyrinths, Mazes, and Mosaics: Fiction by Christa Wolf, Ingo Schulze, Antje Rávic 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 Unification in Angela Kraussand Monika Maron
Anja Johannsen Cultural Topography and Emotional Legacies in Durs Grünbein's Dresden Poetry
Anne Fuchs History from a Bird's Eye View: Reimagining the Past in Marcel Beyer's Kaltenburg
Aleida Assmann Works Cited Notes on the Contributors Index