German Culture, Politics, and Literature Into the Twenty-First Century

Beyond Normalization
Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-1-57113-512-4
Verlag: Boydell & Brewer

Buch, Englisch, Band 102, 254 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 154 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 403 g

Reihe: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture

The first major study of the contemporary German debate over "normalization" and its impact across the range of cultural, political, economic, intellectual, and historical discourses.

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'sself-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, Kathrin Schödel, Stuart Taberner, Paul Cooke

Stuart Taberner isProfessor 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 - See C80107, Paul

Weitere Mitwirkende

Plowman, Andrew

Saunders, Anna

Arpaci, Annette Seidel

Homewood, Chris

Schmitz, Helmut

Leaman, Jeremy

von Oppen, Karoline

Schodel, Kathrin

Longhurst, Kerry

Probst, Lothar

Cooke - see C80107, Paul

Harnisch, Sebastian

Ward, Simon

Brockmann, Stephen

Taberner, Stuart

Donahue, William C

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder

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
Understanding Germany: The Limits of "Normalization" and the Prevalence of Strategic Culture - 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 (2001) - 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 and Ulla Hahn's Unscharfe Bilder - 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 Zaimogølu - Stuart Taberner
Abnormal Consensus? The New Internationalism of German Cinema - Paul Cooke
Notes on the Contributors
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Taberner, Stuart
STUART TABERNER is Professor of German at the University of Leeds, UK. He is Research Associate in the Department of Afrikaans and Dutch, German and French at the University of the Free State, South Africa.

Brockmann, Stephen
STEPHEN BROCKMANN is Professor of German with courtesy appointments in English and History at Carnegie Mellon University.

Cooke - See C80107, Paul
Paul Cooke is Senior Lecturer in German at the University of Leeds.

Plowman, Andrew
Andrew Plowman is Senior Lecturer in
German at the University of Liverpool.

Cooke - see C80107, Paul
Paul Cooke is Senior Lecturer in German at the University of Leeds.

Taberner, Stuart
STUART TABERNER is Professor of German at the University of Leeds, UK. He is Research Associate in the Department of Afrikaans and Dutch, German and French at the University of the Free State, South Africa.

Donahue, William C
WILLIAM COLLINS DONAHUE is Cavanaugh Professor of the Humanities at the University of Notre Dame.

Saunders, Anna
ANNA SAUNDERS is Professor of Modern Languages and Cultures and Head of the Department of Languages, Cultures & Film at the University of Liverpool.