German Culture, Politics, and Literature into th - Beyond Normalization

Erscheinungsjahr 2006
ISBN: 978-1-57113-338-0
Verlag: Camden House

Buch, Englisch, Band Volume 102, 254 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 245 mm, Gewicht: 545 g

Reihe: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture

This volume features sixteen thought-provoking essays by renowned international experts on German society, culture, and politics that, together, provide a comprehensive study of Germany's postunification process of "normalization." Essays ranging across a variety of disciplines including politics, foreign policy, economics, literature, architecture, and film examine how since 1990 the often contested concept of normalization has become crucial to Germany's self-understanding. Despite the apparent emergence of a "new" Germany, the essays demonstrate that normalization is still in question, and that perennial concerns -- notably the Nazi past and the legacy of the GDR -- remain central to political and cultural discourses and affect the country's efforts to deal with the new challenges of globalization and the instability and polarization it brings. This is the first major study in English or German of the impact of the normalization debate across the range of cultural, political, economic, intellectual, and historical discourses.

Contributors: Stephen Brockmann, Jeremy Leaman, Sebastian Harnisch and Kerry Longhurst, Lothar Probst, Simon Ward, Anna Saunders, Annette Seidel Arpaci, Chris Homewood, Andrew Plowman, Helmut Schmitz, Karoline Von Oppen, William Collins, Donahue, Katharine Schödel, Stuart Taberner, Paul Cooke

Stuart Taberner is Professor of Contemporary German Literature, Culture, and Society and Paul Cooke is Senior Lecturer in German Studies, both at the University of Leeds.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Taberner, Stuart

Cooke, Paul

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Politische Ethnologie, Recht, Organisation, Identität
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Deutsche Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politikberatung
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kultursoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Deutsche Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction - Stuart Taberner and Paul Cooke
"Normalization": Has Helmut Kohl's Vision Been Realized? - Stephen Brockmann
Coping with Disparity: Continuity and Discontinuity in Economic Policy since Unification - Jeremy Leaman
Understanding Germany: The Limits of "Normalization" and the Prevalence of Strategic Culture - Sebastian Harnisch and Kerry Longhurst
"Normalization" through Europeanization: The Role of the Holocaust - Lothar Probst
"Representing Normality": Architecture in Berlin - Simon Ward
"Normalizing" the Past: East German Culture and Ostalgie - Anna Saunders
National Memory's Schlüsselkinder: Migration, Pedagogy, and German Remembrance Culture - Annette Seidel Arpaci
The Return of "Undead" History: The West German Terrorist as Vampire and the Problem of "Normalizing" the Past in Margarethe von Trotta's Die bleierne Zeit [1981] and Christian Petzold's Die innere Sicherheit bleierne Zeit [1981] and Christi - Chris Homewood
"Normalizing" the "Old" Federal Republic? The FRG between 1949 and 1989 in Recent German Fiction - Andrew Plowman
Reconciliation between the Generations: The Image of the Ordinary German Soldier in Dieter Wellershoff's Der Ernstfall - Helmut Schmitz
"[un]sägliche Vergleiche": What Germans Remembered [and Forgot] in Former Yugoslavia in the 1990s - Karoline von Oppen
"Normal" as "Apolitical": Uwe Timm's Rot and Thomas Brussig's Leben bis Männer - William Collins Donahue
"Narrative Normalization" and Günter Grass's Im Krebsgang - Kathrin Schodel
From "Normalization" to Globalization. German Fiction into the New Millennium: Christian Kracht, Ingo Schulze, and Feridun Zaimoglu - Stuart Taberner
Abnormal Consensus? The New Internationalism of German Cinema - Paul Cooke

Über Autor(innen)

Cooke, Paul
Paul Cooke is Senior Lecturer in German at the University of Leeds.

Taberner, Stuart
University of Leeds