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

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. This volume features sixteen thought-provoking essays by renowned international experts on German society, culture, and politics that, together, provide a comprehensive study of Germany's postunification process of normalization. Essays ranging across a variety of disciplines including politics, foreign policy, economics, literature, architecture, and film examine how since 1990 the often contested concept of normalization has become crucial to Germany'sself-understanding. Despite the apparent emergence of a new Germany, the essays demonstrate that normalization is still in question, and that perennial concerns -- notably the Nazi past and the legacy of the GDR -- remain central to political and cultural discourses and affect the country's efforts to deal with the new challenges of globalization and the instability and polarization it brings. This is the first major study in English or German of the impact of the normalization debate across the range of cultural, political, economic, intellectual, and historical discourses. Contributors: Stephen Brockmann, Jeremy Leaman, Sebastian Harnisch and Kerry Longhurst, Lothar Probst, Simon Ward, Anna Saunders, Annette Seidel Arpaci, Chris Homewood, Andrew Plowman, Helmut Schmitz, Karoline Von Oppen, William Collins Donahue, Kathrin Schoedel, Stuart Taberner, Paul Cooke Stuart Taberner isProfessor of Contemporary German Literature, Culture, and Society and Paul Cooke is Senior Lecturer in German Studies, both at the University of Leeds.

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Whether the Berlin Republic has achieved some form of 'normality' comparable to other European nation states or whether Germany's singularity, the 'abnormality' of its Holocaust past will persist ... is the focus of the volume's 15 chapters. ... The breadth of viewpoints can be regarded as a model of successful cultural studies.... A first-rate volume. * GERMAN STUDIES REVIEW *
With its cross-disciplinary approach, the book provides a good overview of the discursive shifts that have accompanied German identity debates since the 1990s. * MODERN LANGUAGE REVIEW *
Students will appreciate the clarity of the writing and the information on quite recent developments in Germany.... * MONATSHEFTE *

About Stuart Taberner

STUART TABERNER is Professor of German at the University of Leeds, UK. Paul Cooke is Senior Lecturer in German at the University of Leeds. Andrew Plowman is Senior Lecturer in German at the University of Liverpool. Paul Cooke is Senior Lecturer in German at the University of Leeds. STEPHEN BROCKMANN is Professor of German with courtesy appointments in English and History at Carnegie Mellon University. STUART TABERNER is Professor of German at the University of Leeds, UK. WILLIAM COLLINS DONAHUE is Cavanaugh Professor of the Humanities at the University of Notre Dame.

Introduction - Stuart Taberner and Paul Cooke Normalization: Has Helmut Kohl's Vision Been Realized? - Stephen Brockmann Coping with Disparity: Continuity and Discontinuity in Economic Policy since Unification - Jeremy Leaman Understanding Germany: The Limits of Normalization and the Prevalence of Strategic Culture - Sebastian Harnisch Understanding Germany: The Limits of Normalization and the Prevalence of Strategic Culture - Kerry Longhurst Normalization through Europeanization: The Role of the Holocaust - Lothar Probst Representing Normality: Architecture in Berlin - Simon Ward Normalizing the Past: East German Culture and Ostalgie - Anna Saunders National Memory's Schlusselkinder: Migration, Pedagogy, and German Remembrance Culture - Annette Seidel Arpaci 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 Normalizing the Old Federal Republic? The FRG between 1949 and 1989 in Recent German Fiction - Andrew Plowman 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 (un)sagliche Vergleiche: What Germans Remembered (and Forgot) in Former Yugoslavia in the 1990s - Karoline von Oppen Normal as Apolitical: Uwe Timm's Rot and Thomas Brussig's Leben bis Manner - William Collins Donahue Narrative Normalization and Gunter Grass's Im Krebsgang - Kathrin Schodel From Normalization to Globalization. German Fiction into the New Millennium: Christian Kracht, Ingo Schulze, and Feridun Zaimogolu - Stuart Taberner Abnormal Consensus? The New Internationalism of German Cinema - Paul Cooke Notes on the Contributors Index

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157113512X

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

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Stuart Taberner

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Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture

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Boydell & Brewer Ltd

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2011-07-01

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254

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

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