Beyond 1989: Re-reading German literature since 1945

Published by Berghahn Books 1997

Beyond 1989

Re-reading German literature since 1945

Edited by: K. Bullivant

Volume 3 in the series Modern German Studies

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781785330094

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About this book

With the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989, four decades of separation seemed to have been brought to an end. In the literary arena as in many others, this seemed to be the surprising but ultimately logical end to the situation in which, after the extreme separation of the two Germanies' literatures during most of the period up to 1980, an increasing closeness could be observed during the 1980s, as relations between the two German states normalized. With the opening up of the East in the Autumn of 1989 claims were being made, on the one hand, that German literature had never, in fact, been divided, while others were proclaiming the end of East and West German literatures as they had existed, and the beginning of a new era. This volume examines these claims and other aspects of literary life in the two Germanies since 1945, with the hindsight born of unification in 1990, as well as looking at certain aspects of developments since the fall of the Wall, when, as on East German put it in 1996, rapprochement came to an end.

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K. Bullivant is Professor in the Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages andLiteratures at the University of Florida.

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"This volume makes abundantly clear the fact that the cultural unification of Germany [...] is as arduous and painful as the political/economic merger ... An excellent collection, well-conceived and highly informative." · Choice

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Introduction BEYOND 1989 Keith Bullivant Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
CONFRONTING THE NAZI PAST Jennifer E. Michaels Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
A FAREWELL TO THE LETTERS OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC? F. Schirrmacher’s Postwall Assessment of Postwar German Literature Siegfried Mews Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	21
TEXTS AND CONTEXTS GDR Literature during the 1970s Carol Anne Costabile-Heming Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	35
LITERATURE AND CONVERGENCE The Early 1980s Stephen Brockmann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	49
CRITICAL INTERVENTIONS German Women Writing after 1945 Barbara Kosta and Helga Kraft Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	69
“THOU BLEEDING PIECE OF EARTH” The Affinity of Aesthetics and Ethics and Erich Fried’s Poems Walter Pape Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	89
A REVIVAL OF CONSERVATIVE LITERATURE? The “Spiegel-Symposium 1993” and Beyond Jay J. Rosellini Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	109
RE/FUSING PAST AND PRESENT Cinematic Reunification under the Sign of Nationalism and Racism: Helke Misselwitz’s Herzsprung Nora M. Alter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	129
WHAT SHOULD REMAIN? Exploring the Literary Contributions to Postwar German History Frank Trommler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	153
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	177

Language: English
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 192
Keywords: History: 20th Century to Present; Literary Studies

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Published: September 1, 1997
ISBN: 9781785330094