edited by Anne Fuchs, Kathleen James-Chakraborty, and Linda Shortt
Rochester, N.Y. :
Camden House,
2011
vi, 256 p. ;
24 cm
Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture
Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-244) and index
Introduction / Anne Fuchs, Kathleen James-Chakraborty, and Linda Shortt -- 1989 and the chronological imagination / Peter Fritzsche -- Unity on trial : the Mauerschützenprozesse and the East-West rifts of unified Germany / Pertti Ahonen -- Apples, identity, and memory in post-1989 Germany / Jennifer A. Jordan -- Topographical turns : recasting Berlin in Christian Petzold's Gespenster / Andrew J. Webber -- Interrupting unity : the Berlin Wall's second life on screen, a transnational perspective / Deniz Göktürk -- Beyond the Wall : reunifying Berlin / Kathleen James-Chakraborty -- The rebirth of historic Dresden / Jürgen Paul -- Labyrinths, mazes, and mosaics : fictions by Christa Wolf, Ingo Schulze, Antje Rávic Strubel, and Jens Sparschuh / Elizabeth Boa -- Reimagining the West : West Germany, Westalgia, and the generation of 1978 / Linda Shortt -- "Dem sichtbaren war nicht ganz zu trauen" : poetic reflections on German reunification in Angela Krauss and Monika Maron / Anja K. Johannsen -- Cultural topography and emotional legacies in Durs Grünbein's Dresden poetry / Anne Fuchs -- History from a bird's eye view : reimagining the past in Marcel Beyer's Kaltenburg / Aleida Assmann