Transformations of the new Germany / / edited by Ruth A. Starkman

• Pubblicazione: New York, : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xvii, 254 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 943.088
• Soggetto topico: Political culture - Germany - History - 20th century; Jews - Germany - History - 1990-; National socialism - Psychological aspects
• Soggetto geografico: Germany Intellectual life; Germany Social conditions 1990-; Germany Ethnic relations
• Altri autori: StarkmanRuth A
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover -- Contents -- About the Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword: Interdisciplinarity or Cultural Studies -- Introduction -- Part I: Intellectuals and German History -- Chapter One: Intellectuals, the "Third Way," and German Unification -- Chapter Two: The Rebirth of Tragedy: Syberberg, Strauß, and German Identity -- Chapter Three: Fear and Loathing after 9/11: German Intellectuals and the America-Debate -- Chapter Four: "Are the Towers Still Standing?" September 11 and the Resurrection of the Literary Intellectual -- Part II: Material Culture East and West -- Chapter Five: Born in the "Bakschischrepublik": Anthems of the Late GDR -- Chapter Six: Spies, Shell Games, and Bananas: Everyday Symbols and Metaphors in the Process of Cultural Integration of East and West Germany -- Chapter Seven: Club Cola and Co.: Ostalgie, Material Culture and Identity -- Part III: Germany and Its Minorities -- Chapter Eight: Aussiedler and Ausländer: Transforming German National Identity -- Chapter Nine: Germany's Coming Out: Citizenship and Immigration Reform since Unification -- Chapter Ten: (Re)constructing Community in Berlin: Turks, Jews, and German Responsibility -- Chapter Eleven: Perpetual Impossibility? Normalization of German-Jewish Relations in the Berlin Republic -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.
• Sommario/riassunto: This collection demonstrates the persistence of the initial anxieties about a united Germany and its rapid absorption of the German Democratic Republic, and also suggests a potential optimism that, despite much contemporary domestic disenchantment, the new Germany continues to thrive as a European democracy endeavouring to confront its past.
• Titolo autorizzato: Transformations of the new Germany
• ISBN: 1-281-36603-X; 9786611366032; 1-4039-8466-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910826409703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Studies in European culture and history.