Drowning or Waving: German Literature Today

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Berlin
6. The New Self-Understanding of the Berlin Republic: Readings of Contemporary German History 19
7. Filling the Blanks: Berlin as a Public Showcase 37
8. Das Kunsthaus Tacheles: The Berlin Architecture Debate of the 1990s in Micro-Historical Context 51
9. Normalising Cultural Memory? The “Walser-Bubis Debate” and Martin Walser’s Novel Ein springender Brunnen 67
10. Political Formations
11. “Glücklose Engel”: Fictions of German History and the End of the German Democratic Republic 87
12. Successful Failure? The Impact of the German Student Movement on the Federal Republic of Germany 105
13. The PDS: “CSU des Ostens”? — Heimat and the Left 123
14. “An Helligkeit ragt in Europa vor allem mei’ Sachsenland vor”: Prime Minister Biedenkopf and the Myth of Saxon Identity 141
15. Unifying a Gendered State: Women in Post-1989 Germany 157
16. Difference
17. “Zugzwang” or “Stillstand”? — Trains in the Post-1989 Fiction of Brigitte Struyzk, Reinhard Jirgl, and Wolfgang Hilbig 173
18. On the Function of the Foreign in the Novels Andere Umstände (1998) by Grit Poppe and Seit die Götter ratlos sind (1994) by Kerstin Jentzsch 191
19. Migration Experiences and the Construction of Identity among Turks Living in Germany 205
20. Diasporic Identity in Emine Sevgi Özdamar’s Mutterzunge 219
21. Difficult Stories: Generation, Genealogy, Gender in Zafer Șenocak’s Gefährliche Verwandtschaft and Monika Maron’s Pawels Briefe 235
22. Drowning or Waving: German Literature Today 251
23. Notes on the Contributors 267
24. Index 271