Literature and German Reunification
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- Author: Stephen Brockmann, Carnegie Mellon University, Pennsylvania
- Date Published: November 2006
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- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521027847
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This book is a systematic attempt to examine the literary consequences of German reunification. Placing the concept of the Kulturnation at the centre of its analysis, the book explores the ways in which literature both responds to and helps to constitute notions of German national identity. Previous studies of German literature have tended to avoid the problem of nationhood: this is one of the few books in any language to treat contemporary Germany as a cultural and national unity. The book discusses German literature from the early 1980s through the late 1990s, with a primary focus on the way in which authors of the 1990s have sought to cope with and respond to reunification and emerging questions about history, politics and identity. Larger questions are addressed about the role of both the nation and a national literature in the context of economic and political globalization.
Read more- First full-length study of German literature post-reunification
- One of the first studies to treat contemporary Germany as a single national and cultural unit
- Casts new light on broader issues of nationhood and national literatures
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- Date Published: November 2006
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521027847
- length: 260 pages
- dimensions: 228 x 152 x 15 mm
- weight: 0.39kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: locating the nation
1. Searching for Germany in the 1980s
2. A third path? 3. Literature and politics
4. Literature and the Stasi
5. The rebirth of tragedy?
6. The defense of childhood and the guilt of the fathers
7. The time and the place of the nation
Notes
Works cited
Index.
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