Fuchs / James-Chakraborty / Shortt Debating German Cultural Identity since 1989

1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-57113-786-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, Band 107, 264 Seiten

Reihe: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture

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

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fuchs, Anne

James-Chakraborty, Kathleen

Shortt, Linda

Weitere Mitwirkende

Assmann, Aleida

Webber, Andrew J.

Johannsen, Anja

Fuchs, Anne

Gokturk, Deniz

Boa, Elizabeth

Jordan, Jennifer A.

Paul, Jürgen

James-Chakraborty, Kathleen

Shortt, Linda

Ahonen, Pertti

Fritzsche, Peter

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Deutsche Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Deutsche Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Shortt Linda:
Kinda Shortt is Associate Professor at the University of Warwick. Her research focuses on concepts of place, belonging, and attachment in
twentieth- and twenty-first-century German-language literature and film. Significant publications in this area include: "Borders, Bordering,
and Irregular Migration in Novels by Dorothee Elmiger and Olga Grjasnowa," MLR 116, no. 1 (2021): 134-52; and German Narratives
of Belonging: Writing Generation and Place in the Twenty-first Century (Oxford: Legenda, 2015).Shortt Linda:
Kinda Shortt is Associate Professor at the University of Warwick. Her research focuses on concepts of place, belonging, and attachment in
twentieth- and twenty-first-century German-language literature and film. Significant publications in this area include: "Borders, Bordering,
and Irregular Migration in Novels by Dorothee Elmiger and Olga Grjasnowa," MLR 116, no. 1 (2021): 134-52; and German Narratives
of Belonging: Writing Generation and Place in the Twenty-first Century (Oxford: Legenda, 2015).