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Transformations of the new Germany / edited by Ruth A. Starkman.
Van Pelt Library DD290.26 .T73 2006
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Studies in European culture and history
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Germany--Intellectual life.
- Germany.
- Intellectual life.
- Political culture--Germany--History--20th century.
- Political culture.
- History.
- Germany--Social conditions--1990-.
- Social conditions.
- Jews--Germany--History--1945-1990.
- Jews.
- National socialism--Psychological aspects.
- National socialism.
- Germany--Ethnic relations.
- Ethnic relations.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 254 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
- Summary:
- This book examines the cultural transformations of the Federal Republic of Germany in its second decade since unification.
- Contents:
- Foreword: Interdisciplinarity or Cultural Studies / Russell A. Berman xi
- Part I Intellectuals and German History
- Chapter 1 Intellectuals, the "Third Way," and German Unification / Brett R. Wheeler 15
- Chapter 2 The Rebirth of Tragedy: Syberberg, Strauss, and German Identity / Stephen Brockmann 35
- Chapter 3 Fear and Loathing after 9/11: German Intellectuals and the America-Debate / Klaus R. Scherpe 55
- Chapter 4 "Are the Towers Still Standing?" September 11 and the Resurrection of the Literary Intellectual / Alison Lewis 69
- Part II Material Culture East and West
- Chapter 5 Born in the "Bakschischrepublik": Anthems of the Late GDR / Patricia Anne Simpson 89
- Chapter 6 Spies, Shell Games, and Bananas: Everyday Symbols and Metaphors in the Process of Cultural Integration of East and West Germany / Gottfried Korff 113
- Chapter 7 Club Cola and Co.: Ostalgie, Material Culture and Identity / Martin Blum 131
- Part III Germany and Its Minorities
- Chapter 8 Aussiedler and Auslander: Transforming German National Identity / Nora Rathzel 157
- Chapter 9 Germany's Coming Out: Citizenship and Immigration Reform since Unification / Hermann Kurthen 181
- Chapter 10 (Re)constructing Community in Berlin: Turks, Jews, and German Responsibility / Jonathan Laurence 199
- Chapter 11 Perpetual Impossibility? Normalization of German-Jewish Relations in the Berlin Republic / Ruth A. Starkman 233.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1403967954
- OCLC:
- 56729696
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