LEADER 04570nam 22007692 450 001 9911008973903321 005 20151002020706.0 010 $a1-282-94697-8 010 $a9786612946974 010 $a1-57113-810-2 024 7 $a10.1515/9781571138101 035 $a(CKB)2560000000054728 035 $a(OCoLC)694361453 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10437824 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000431524 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12142559 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000431524 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10476145 035 $a(PQKB)10961616 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000878047 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11532574 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000878047 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10812774 035 $a(PQKB)23968156 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9781571138101 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3003759 035 $a(DE-B1597)675762 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781571138101 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000054728 100 $a20120822d2008|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aWriting the new Berlin $ethe German capital in post-Wall literature /$fKatharina Gerstenberger 210 1$aSuffolk :$cBoydell & Brewer,$d2008. 215 $a1 online resource (x, 209 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 225 1 $aStudies in German literature, linguistics, and culture 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015). 311 08$a1-57113-513-8 311 08$a1-57113-381-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [177]-198) and index. 327 $aIntroduction: newness and its discontents: Berlin literature in the 1990s and beyond -- Erotic sites: sexual topographies after the Wall -- Bodies and borders: the monsters of Berlin -- Multicultural Germans and Jews of many cultures: imagining "Jewish Berlin" -- Goodbye to East Berlin -- Looking for perspectives: the construction at Potsdamer Platz. 330 $aThe wall was still coming down when critics began to call for the great Berlin novel that could explain what was happening to Germany and the Germans. Such a novel never appeared. Instead, writers have created a patchwork imaginary - in the form of about 300 works of fiction set in Berlin - of a city and a nation whose identity collapsed virtually overnight. Contributors to this literary collage include established writers like Peter Schneider and Christa Wolf, young authors like Tanja Du?ckers and Ingo Schramm, German-Turkish authors Zafer Senocak and Yade? Kara, and the Austrians Kathrin Ro?ggla and Marlene Streeruwitz. The non-arrival of the great Berlin novel marks the reorientation in German culture and literature that is the focus of this study: the experience of unification was too diverse, too postmodern, too influenced by global developments to be captured by one novel. Berlin literature of the postunification decade is marked by ambiguity: change is linked to questions of historical continuity; postmodern simulation finds its counterpart in a quest for authenticity; and the assimilation of Germanness into European and global contexts is both liberation and loss. This book pursues a nuanced understanding of the search for new ways to tell the story of Germany's past and of its importance for the formation of a new German identity. Katharina Gerstenberger is associate professor of German at the University of Cincinnati. 410 0$aStudies in German literature, linguistics, and culture. 606 $aGerman literature$zGermany$zBerlin$xHistory and criticism 606 $aLiterature and society$zGermany$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aLiterature and society$zGermany$xHistory$y21st century 606 $aNational characteristics, German, in literature 606 $aGerman literature$y21st century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aSocial change$zGermany$xHistory$y21st century 607 $aBerlin (Germany)$xIn literature 615 0$aGerman literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aLiterature and society$xHistory 615 0$aLiterature and society$xHistory 615 0$aNational characteristics, German, in literature. 615 0$aGerman literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aSocial change$xHistory 676 $a830.9/35843155 700 $aGerstenberger$b Katharina$f1961-$01827043 801 0$bUkCbUP 801 1$bUkCbUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9911008973903321 996 $aWriting the new Berlin$94395103 997 $aUNINA