Cultural topographies of the new Berlin / Karin Bauer and Jennifer Ruth Hosek.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bauer, Karin, 1958- author.

Hosek, Jennifer Ruth, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arts and society--Germany--Berlin--History--21st century.

Arts and society.

Minorities--Germany--Berlin.

Minorities.

Collective memory--Germany--Berlin.

Collective memory.

Berlin (Germany)--Civilization--21st century.

Berlin (Germany).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (411 pages) : color illustrations, photographs

Place of Publication:

New York, [New York] ; Oxford, [England] : Berghahn Books, 2018.

Summary:

Since Unification and the end of the Cold War, Berlin has witnessed a series of uncommonly intense social, political, and cultural transformations. While positioning itself as a creative center populated by young and cosmopolitan global citizens, the “New Berlin” is at the same time a rich site of historical memory, defined inescapably by its past even as it articulates German and European hopes for the future. Cultural Topographies of the New Berlin presents a fascinating cross-section of life in Germany’s largest city, revealing the complex ways in which globalization, ethnicity, economics, memory, and national identity inflect how its urban spaces are inhabited and depicted.

Contents:

Contesting gentrification: subculture to mainstream

Cultural history of post-wall Berlin: from utopian longing to nostalgia for Babylon / Katrina Sark

Taking a walk on the wild side: Berlin and Christiane F.'s second life

/ susan ingram

Representations and interpretations of "the new Berlin" in contemporary German comics / Lynn Marie Kutch

Spaces, monuments, and the appropriation of history

Reconfiguring the spaces of the "creative class" in contemporary Berlin / Simon Ward

Negotiating Cold War legacies: the discursive ambiguity of Berlin's memory sites / Stefanie Eisenhuth & Scott H. Krause

Branding the new Germany: the Brandenburg Gate and a new kind of German historical amnesia / Sarah Pogoda & Rudiger Traxler

Disappearing history: challenges of imagining Berlin after 1989 / Ayse N. Erek & Eszter Gantner

Reimagining integration

Governing through "ethnic entrepreneurship"

Resisting integration: Neukolln artist responses to integration politics / Johanna Schuster-Craig

The revival of diasporic Hebrew in contemporary Berlin / Hila Amit

Berlin's international literature festival: globalizing the Bildungsburger / Marike Janzen

Berlin memoryscapes of the present

Transnational cityscapes: tracking Turkish-German histories in postwar Berlin / Christiane Steckenbiller

Israeli Jews in the new Berlin : from Shoah memories to Middle Eastern encounters / Hadas Cohen & Dani Kranz

Through the eyes of angels and vampires: Berlin ruins in wings of desire and we are the night / Peter Golz

The uncanny city: Berlin in international film / Andre Schutze.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781785337215

1785337211