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Textual responses to German unification : processing historical and social change in literature and film / edited by Carol Anne Costabile-Heming, Rachel J. Halverson, Kristie A. Foell.
LIBRA PT405 .T435 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- German literature--20th century--History and criticism.
- German literature.
- Germany--In literature.
- Germany.
- Germany--History--Unification, 1990.
- History.
- Motion pictures--Germany--History.
- Motion pictures.
- Germany--In motion pictures.
- Physical Description:
- vi, 278 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Berlin ; New York : W. de Gruyter, 2001.
- Contents:
- "Schreiber, was siehst du?" Processing Historical and Social Change / Carol Anne Costabile-Heming, Rachel J. Halverson, Kristie A. Foell 3
- Authors and Their Worlds
- The Journey Eastward: Helga Schutz' Vom Glanz der Elbe and the Mnemonic Politics of German Unification / N. Ann Rider 17
- "ob es sich bei diesem Experiment um eine gescheiterte Utopie oder um ein Verbrechen gehandelt hat": Enlightenment, Utopia, the GDR and National Socialism in Moniika Maron's Work From Flugasche to Pawels Briefe / Stuart Tabener 35
- Remembering the GDR: Memory and Evasion in Autobiographical Writing from the Former GDR / James Reece 59
- "Gefalle in der Landschaft"
- On the Critique of Real Existing Capitalism in Volker Braun's Texts / Rolf Jucker 77
- Comedic Bestseller or Insightful Satire: Taking the Interview and Autobiography to Task in Thomas Brussig's Helden wie wir / Rachel J. Halverson 95
- Multiple Voices
- Generational Views
- "Man muss jetzt laut schreien, um gehort zu werden": Stefan Heym, Walter Jens, Helga Konigsdorf: An intellectual opposition? / Karoline Von Oppen 109
- Everyday Stories of Hope and Despair in Eastern Germany: Kerstin Hensel and Ingo Schulze Write about Life after the Wende / Alisa Kasle 131
- "Ko...Ko...Konolialismus," said the giraffe: Humorous and Satirical Responses to German Unification / Jill Twark 151
- Theatrical Confrontations with the Wende and Post-Unification Germany: Strauss, Pohl, and Hein / Gerald A. Fetz 171
- Cinematic Responses
- Mastering the Past and Present: Problems of Memory in Postwar and Post-Wende German Cinema / Robert D. Levy, Richard W. McCormick 193
- Ghosts of Babelsberg: Narrative strategies of the Wendefilm / Massimo Locatelli 211
- German-Germanness: On Borders, Hybridity, and Sameness in Margarethe von Trotta's Das Versprechen / Jenifer Ward 225
- History as Melodrama: German Division and Unification in Two Recent Films / Kristie A. Foell 233
- Sonnenallee: Taking Comedy Seriously in Unified Germany / Helen Cafferty 253.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 3110170221
- OCLC:
- 46969871
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