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Writing the New Berlin

By Katharina Gerstenberger

Writing the New Berlin

By Katharina Gerstenberger

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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 Professor of German at the University of Cincinnati.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
222
Release Date:
2011-07-01
Publication Date:
2011-07-01
Publisher:
Camden House
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1571135138
ISBN13:
9781571135131
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
368 g
Height:
152 cm
Width:
229 cm
Thickness:
13 cm
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