German Culture, Politics, and Literature into the Twenty-First Century: Beyond Normalization

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German Culture, Politics, and Literature into the Twenty-First Century

Beyond Normalization

Edited by: Stuart Taberner and Paul Cooke - see C80107
With contributions by: Andrew Plowman , Anna Saunders , Annette Seidel Arpaci , Chris Homewood , Helmut Schmitz , Jeremy Leaman , Karoline von Oppen , Kathrin Schodel , Kerry Longhurst , Lothar Probst , Paul Cooke - see C80107 , Sebastian Harnisch , Simon Ward , Stephen Brockmann , Stuart Taberner and William C Donahue

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2006

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Volume 102 | Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture

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The first major study of the contemporary German debate over "normalization" and its impact across the range of cultural, political, economic, intellectual, and historical discourses.

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Taberner Stuart :

STUART TABERNER is Professor of German at the University of Leeds, UK. He is Research Associate in the Department of Afrikaans and Dutch, German and French at the University of the Free State, South Africa.Cooke - see C80107 Paul :

Paul Cooke is Senior Lecturer in German at the University of Leeds.Plowman Andrew :

Andrew Plowman is Senior Lecturer in
German at the University of Liverpool.Saunders Anna :

ANNA SAUNDERS is Professor of Modern Languages and Cultures and Head of the Department of Languages, Cultures & Film at the University of Liverpool.Cooke - see C80107 Paul :

Paul Cooke is Senior Lecturer in German at the University of Leeds.Brockmann Stephen :

STEPHEN BROCKMANN is Professor of German with courtesy appointments in English and History at Carnegie Mellon University.Taberner Stuart :

STUART TABERNER is Professor of German at the University of Leeds, UK. He is Research Associate in the Department of Afrikaans and Dutch, German and French at the University of the Free State, South Africa.Donahue William C :

WILLIAM COLLINS DONAHUE is Cavanaugh Professor of the Humanities at the University of Notre Dame.

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History Regional and National History Germany General German History

Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction Stuart Taberner and Paul Cooke Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1: “Normalization”: Has Helmut Kohl’s Vision Been Realized? Stephen Brockmann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	17
2: Coping with Disparity: Continuity and Discontinuity in Economic Policy since Unification Jeremy Leaman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	31
3: Understanding Germany: The Limits of “Normalization” and the Prevalence of Strategic Culture Sebastian Harnisch and Kerry Longhurst Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	49
4: “Normalization” through Europeanization: The Role of the Holocaust Lothar Probst Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	61
5: “Representing Normality”: Architecture in Berlin Simon Ward Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	75
6: “Normalizing” the Past: East German Culture and Ostalgie Anna Saunders Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	89
7: National Memory’s Schlüsselkinder: Migration, Pedagogy, and German Remembrance Culture Annette Seidel Arpaci Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	105
8: 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 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	121
9: “Normalizing” the “Old” Federal Republic? The FRG between 1949 and 1989 in Recent German Fiction Andrew Plowman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	137
10: 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 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	151
11: “(un)sägliche Vergleiche”: What Germans Remembered (and Forgot) in Former Yugoslavia in the 1990s Karoline von Oppen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	167
12: “Normal” as “Apolitical”: Uwe Timm’s Rot and Thomas Brussig’s Leben bis Männer William Collins Donahue Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	181
13: “Narrative Normalization” and Günter Grass’s Im Krebsgang Kathrin Schödel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	195
14: From “Normalization” to Globalization. German Fiction into the New Millennium: Christian Kracht, Ingo Schulze, and Feridun Zaimog˘lu Stuart Taberner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	209
15: Abnormal Consensus? The New Internationalism of German Cinema Paul Cooke Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	223
Notes on the Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	237
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	241

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September 8, 2006

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9781571136787

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254

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Germany; Contemporary; Normalization; Cultural; Political; Economic; Intellectual; Historical; Discourses; Nazi past; Legacy

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German Culture, Politics, and Literature into the Twenty-First Century

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