Writing the New Berlin / Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture Bd.21 (PDF)
The German Capital in Post-Wall Literature
(Sprache: Englisch)
A study of the "patchwork imaginary" that is postwall Berlin fiction and its significance for the new Germany.
The wall was still coming down when critics began to call for the great Berlin novel that could explain what was happening to Germany...
The wall was still coming down when critics began to call for the great Berlin novel that could explain what was happening to Germany...
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A study of the "patchwork imaginary" that is postwall Berlin fiction and its significance for the new Germany.
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.
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.
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Katharina Gerstenberger
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- Autor: Katharina Gerstenberger
- 2008, 220 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
- ISBN-10: 1571138102
- ISBN-13: 9781571138101
- Erscheinungsdatum: 01.07.2008
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