Cultural transformations in the new Germany : American and German perspectives
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Cultural transformations in the new Germany : American and German perspectives
（Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture / edited by James Hardin）
Camden House, c1993
Available at 3 libraries
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
Cultural Transformations provides an unusual look at cultural issues in Germany since the opening of the Berlin Wall in November 1989. Literary critics, political scientists, regional historians, and people working in cultural politics consider a broad range of cultural topics, addressing the difficulties and opportunities involved in the recent processes of transformation in both parts of Germany.
The book offers new assessments of GDR literature and concrete accounts of new cultural projects in Berlin and the state of Saxony. The book will be of interest not only to Germanists and political scientists but also to those interested in phenomena associated with the rapidly changing face of Europe in general.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 German identities: the national identity of the GDR - antifascism, historiography, literature, Peter C. Pfeiffer
- citizenship as process - German identity in an age of reconstruction, Joyce Marie Mushaben
- the future requires an origin - East-West German identity, the opportunities and difficulties of cultural politics, Hermann Glaser
- coming home into exile - the end of Romanian-German culture, Erika Nielsen. Part 2 Politics of literary history and the literary canon: new contexts for GDR literature - an American perspective, Patricia Herminghouse
- canons crumble just like walls - discovering the works of GDR women writers, Karen Jankowsky
- do we need to rewrite German literary history since 1945? - a German perspective, Wolfgang Emmerich
- voices from No Man's Land - recent German poetry, Peter Geist. Part 3 Transformations in cultural politics and cultural institutions: the responsibility of the intellectual - the case of the East Berlin "Counter-culture", Friederike Eigler
- contours of a new academic landscape - research institutes and the university systems in the new German states, Therese Hornigk
- new models of local cultural projects - the example of Prenzlauer Berg, Matthias Rau
- challenges for cultural politics in the new Germany - the example of Saxony, Jurgen U. Ohlau.
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