After the Berlin Wall: Germany and Beyond

by K. Gerstenberger (Editor), J. Braziel (Editor)

Overview

Twenty years after its fall, the wall that divided Berlin and Germany presents a conceptual paradox: on one hand, Germans have sought to erase it completely; on the other, it haunts the imagination in complex and often surprising ways

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349294183
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan US
Publication date:	11/09/2011
Edition description:	1st ed. 2011
Pages:	296
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

KATHARINA GERSTENBERGER Professor and Head of the Department of German Studies at the University of Cincinnati, USA.

JANA EVANS BRAZIEL Faculty Chair of The Charles Phelps Taft Research Center at the University of Cincinnati, USA.

Table of Contents

Sex and the City: German Culture in World Culture Twenty Years After; S.L.Gilman From the Berlin Wall to the West Bank Barrier: How Material Culture is Used in Psychological Theory; C.Leuenberger Exploring Master Keaton's Germany: A Japanese Perspective on the End of the Cold War; S.Granville Ending Cold War Divisions and Establishing New Partnerships: German Unification and the Transformation of German-Polish Relations; J.Murphy The Counterrevolution in Soviet Foreign Policy and the End of the Cold War; R.Snyder & T.White 'Seventh of November' from Berliner Ensemble; D.Cowie 'There was no Time for Shame': The Politics of Shame and the State; D.Elam The 'Wall in the Mind' and Nostalgia for Separation in Reunified Germany; P.Kubicek Specters of Work: Literature and Labor in Post-Socialist Germany; H.Bivens A New Era, or a Lost Wager?; B.Robinson After the Fall of the Wall: German Visual Culture in the New Europe; A.Dempsey History in Context: The Spreebogen and Das Haus Am Werderschen Markt in the Context of the Architectural Debates; C.A.Costabile Heming Architectural Polemics from Berlin to Beijing; D.Purdy Berlin Wall Installations in the United States; R.Schade

Editorial Reviews

"This cosmopolitan and interdisciplinary volume explores the resonance of 1989 in films, novels, architecture, and city planning, as well as in domestic and international politics. Braziel and Gerstenberger have collected an impressive set of original, stimulating, and sometimes provocative essays that trace the enduring significance of the fall of the wall, both in Germany and beyond. This is an important contribution to the growing literature on the end of the Cold War." - James J. Sheehan, Stanford University

"The strength of this book is how it looks beyond the borders of Germany to examine the aftermath of 1989 in a transnational context, reading the Berlin Wall itself as 'truly a global phenomenon well beyond its fall.' Scholars of contemporary German will find compelling reading in chapters that make global connections to Japan, Israel, the Soviet Union, and China . . . Recommended." - CHOICE

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