Writing the new Berlin : the German capital in post-Wall literature / / Katharina Gerstenberger

• Autore: Gerstenberger Katharina <1961->
• Pubblicazione: Suffolk : , : Boydell & Brewer, , 2008
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (x, 209 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 830.9/35843155
• Soggetto topico: German literature - Germany - Berlin - History and criticism; Literature and society - Germany - History - 20th century; Literature and society - Germany - History - 21st century; National characteristics, German, in literature; German literature - 21st century - History and criticism; Social change - Germany - History - 21st century
• Soggetto geografico: Berlin (Germany) In literature
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [177]-198) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: The 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 Dückers and Ingo Schramm, German-Turkish authors Zafer Senocak and Yadé Kara, and the Austrians Kathrin Röggla 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Writing the new Berlin
• ISBN: 1-282-94697-8; 9786612946974; 1-57113-810-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9911008973903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture.