Taberner / Finlay Recasting German Identity

Culture, Politics, and Literature in the Berlin Republic
1. Auflage 2002
ISBN: 978-1-57113-608-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, Band 1, 284 Seiten

Reihe: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture

A collection of essays offering a nuanced understanding of the complex question of identity in today's Germany.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Taberner, Stuart

Finlay, Frank

Weitere Mitwirkende

Szejnmann, Chris

Kolinsky, Eva

Brunssen, Frank

Stewart, Janet

Leeder, Karen

Schodel, Kathrin

Parkes, Keith Stuart

Littler, Margaret

Thompson, Peter

Skare, Roswitha

Lang, Sabine

Ward, Simon

Zitzlsperger, Ulrike

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Semiotik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Deutsche Literatur
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction -
The New Self-Understanding of The Berlin Republic: Readings of Contemporary German History - Frank Brunssen
Filling The Blanks: Berlin as a Public Showcase - Ulrike Zitzlsperger
Das Kunsthaus Tacheles: The 1990s' Berlin Architecture Debate in Micro-Historical Context - Janet Stewart
Normalising Cultural Memory? The "Walser-Bubis Debate" and Martin Walser's Novel Ein springender Brunnen - Kathrin Schodel
"Glücklose Engel": Fictions of German History and the End of the German Democratic Republic - Karen Leeder
Successful Failure? The Impact of the German Student Movement on the Federal Republic of Germany -
The PDS: "CSU des Ostens"?--Heimat and the Left - Peter Thompson
"An Helligkeit Ragt In Europa Vor Allem Mei' Sachsenland Vor." Prime Minister Biedenkopf and the Myth of Saxon Identity - Chris Szejnmann
Unifying a Gendered State: Women in Post-1989 Germany - Sabine Lang
"Zugzwang" or "Stillstand"?--Trains in the Post-1989 Fiction of Brigitte Struyzk, Reinhard Jirgl and Wolfgang Hilbig - Simon Ward
On the Function of the Foreign in the Novels Andere Umstände (1998) by Grit Poppe and Seit die Götter ratlos sind (1994) by Kerstin Jentzschratlos sind (1994) by Kerstin Jentzsch - Roswitha Skare
Migration Experiences and the Construction of Identity among Turks Living in Germany - Eva Kolinsky
Diasporic Identity in Emine Sevgi Özdamar's Mutterzunge - Margaret Littler
Difficult Stories: Generation, Genealogy, Gender in Zafer Senocak's Gefährliche Verwandtschaft and Monika Maron's Pawels BriefePawels Briefe -
Drowning or Waving: German Literature Today - Stuart Parkes

Über Autor(innen)

Taberner Stuart:
STUART TABERNER is Professor of German at the University of Leeds, UK.