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German culture, politics, and literature into the twenty-first century, beyond normalization, edited by Stuart Taberner and Paul Cooke

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German culture, politics, and literature into the twenty-first century, beyond normalization, edited by Stuart Taberner and Paul Cooke

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eng

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Includes bibliographical references and index

Main title

German culture, politics, and literature into the twenty-first century

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65201381

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edited by Stuart Taberner and Paul Cooke

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Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture

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beyond normalization

Summary

"This volume features sixteen thought-provoking essays by renowned international experts on German society, culture, and politics that, together, provide a comprehensive study of Germany's postunification process of "normalization." Essays ranging across a variety of disciplines including politics, foreign policy, economics, literature, architecture, and film examine how since 1990 the often contested concept of normalization has become crucial to Germany's self-understanding. Despite the apparent emergence of a "new" Germany, the essays demonstrate that normalization is still in question, and that perennial concerns -- notably the Nazi past and the legacy of the GDR -- remain central to political and cultural discourses and affect the country's efforts to deal with the new challenges of globalization and the instability and polarization it brings. This is the first major study in English or German of the impact of the normalization debate across the range of cultural, political, economic, intellectual, and historical discourses."--Publisher's website

Table Of Contents

"Normalization" : has Helmut Kohl's vision been realized? / Stephen Brockmann -- Coping with disparity : continuity and discontinuity in economic policy since unification / Jeremy Leaman -- Understanding Germany : the limits of "normalization" and the prevalence of strategic culture / Sebastian Harnisch, Kerry Longhurst -- "Normalization" through Europeanization : the role of the Holocaust / Lother Probst -- "Representing normality" : architecture in Berlin / Simon Ward -- "Normalizing" the past : East German culture and Ostalgie / Anna Saunders -- National memory's Schlüsselkinder : migration, pedagogy, and German remembrance culture / Annette Seidel Arpaci -- The return of "undead" history : the West German terrorist as vampire and the problem of "normalizing" the past in Margarethe von Trotta's Die bleierne Zeit (1981) and Christian Petzold's Die innere Sicherheit (2001) / Chris Homewood -- "Normalizing" the "Old" Federal Republic? The FRG between 1949 and 1989 in recent German fiction / Andrew Plowman -- Reconciliation between the generations : the image of the ordinary German soldier in Dieter Wellershoff's Der Ernstfall and Ulla Hahn's Unscharfe Bilder / Helmut Schmitz -- "(un)sägliche Vergleiche" : what Germans remembered (and forgot) in former Yugoslavia in the 1990s / Karoline von Oppen -- "Normal" as "apolitical" : Uwe Timm's Rot and Thomas Brussig's Leben bis Männer / William Collins Donahue -- "Narrative normalization" and Günter Grass's Im Krebsgang / Kathrin Schödel -- From "normalization" to globalization : German fiction into the new millennium : Christian Kracht, Ingo Schulze, and Feridun Zaimoğlu / Stuart Taberner -- Abnormal consensus? The new internationalism of German cinema / Paul Cooke

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