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Debating German Cultural Identity since 1989 (Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture)
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Hardcover. Series: Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture. 266 pages, black & white illustrations. Editor(s): Fuchs, Anne; James-Chakraborty, Kathleen; Shortt, Linda. Interdisciplinary views of the debates over and transformation of German cultural identity since unification. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJPR; 3JMC; JFC. Dimension: 241 x 162 x 26. Weight: 578.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Camden House
Number of pages
266
Condition
New
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
Columbia, MD, United States
ISBN
9781571134868
SKU
V9781571134868
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About Paperback
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 ... Read more
Reviews for Debating German Cultural Identity since 1989 (Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture)
[T]he editors and contributors . . . have largely succeeded in their attempt to provide a fairly detailed overview of the current debates about what constitutes post-unification German cultural identity by covering a wide range of subjects from a variety of perspectives.
MONATSHEFTE
Brings together work by a wide range of established international scholars, who offer strong, original ... Read more
MONATSHEFTE
Brings together work by a wide range of established international scholars, who offer strong, original ... Read more