A collection of
essays offering a nuanced understanding of the
complex question of identity in today's
Germany.
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This collection of fifteen essays
by scholars from the UK, the US, Germany, and Scandinavia
concentrates on the plurality of ethnic, sexual,
political, geographical, and cultural identities in
modern Germany, and on their often fragmentary nature as
as the country struggles with the challenges of
unification and international developments such as
globalization, multiculturalism, and postmodernism.
The essays are organized with reference to three distinct
sections: Berlin, Political Formations, and Difference.
Topics include the new self-understanding of the Berlin
Republic, Berlin as a public showcase, the Berlin
architecture debate, the Walser-Bubis debate, fictions of
German history and the end of the GDR, the impact of the
German student movement on the FRG, Prime Minister
Biedenkopf and the myth of Saxon identity, women in
post-1989 Germany, trains as symbols and the function of
the foreign in post-1989 fiction, identity construction
among Turks in Germany and Turkish self-representation in
post-1989 fiction, the state of German literature today.
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STUART
TABERNER is Lecturer in German.
FRANK FINLAY is Professor of German and
Head of the Department of German, at the University of
Leeds.
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222
pages
Size: 9 x 6 in
ISBN: 1 57113 244 9
Price: $70.00 USD, c.£50.00 USD
Publication due: October 2002
Series: Studies in German Literature, Linguistics and
Culture
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