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Record Nr.

UNINA9910464872003321

Titolo

Ossi Wessi [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Donald Backman and Aida Sakalauskaite

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newcastle upon Tyne, : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2008

ISBN

1-282-41431-3

9786612414312

1-4438-1519-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (290 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

BackmanDonald

SakalauskaiteAida

Disciplina

943.087

Soggetti

Berlin Wall, Berlin, Germany, 1961-1989

Berlin Wall, Berlin, Germany, 1961-1989, in literature

Berlin Wall, Berlin, Germany, 1961-1989 - In mass media

Berlin Wall, Berlin, Germany, 1961-1989 - In popular culture

Politics and culture - Germany - History - 20th century

Electronic books.

Germany History Unification, 1990 Social aspects Congresses

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

TABLE OF CONTENTS; LIST OF IMAGES AND TABLES; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; CHAPTER EIGHT; CHAPTER NINE; CHAPTER TEN; CHAPTER ELEVEN; CHAPTER TWELVE; CHAPTER THIRTEEN; CHAPTER FOURTEEN; CONTRIBUTORS

Sommario/riassunto

Ossi Wessi includes the proceedings of the fourteenth annual Interdisciplinary German Studies Conference at the University of California, Berkeley (2006), which explored issues surrounding the Berlin Wall, both pre- and post-reunification, in language, literature, and visual media. The collected articles discuss the situation of the Berlin Wall, describing its portrayal as both a dividing and uniting boundary, and often discussing the continued existence of the Wall in



the minds of Germany's ...