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001 2011019710
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008 110506s2011 nyu 000 0 eng
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020 $a9780230111929 (hardback)
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050 00 $aDD290.29$b.A35 2011
082 00 $a943.088$223
084 $aPOL033000$aSOC026000$aPOL042000$2bisacsh
245 00 $aAfter the Berlin Wall :$bGermany and beyond /$cedited by Katharina Gersteenberger and Jana Evans Braziel.
260 $aNew York :$bPalgrave Macmillan,$c2011.
300 $aviii, 287 p. ;$c22 cm.
520 $a"Twenty years after its fall, the wall that divided Berlin and Germany presents a conceptual paradox: on one hand, Germans have sought to erase it completely; on the other, it haunts the imagination in complex and often surprising ways. Similarly, Cold War divisions resonate in the global image of the "New Germany." Several overlapping themes run through the essays: the exportation of German post-wall debates into other cultural contexts and representations of the Wall within non-German settings; the emergence of visual, literary, and psychological imagery derived from the Berlin Wall well beyond its existence; the importance of space, geographical, political, as well as imagined, in the aftermath of the Wall; and the continued artistic as well as socio-historical engagement with East Germany as a state that no longer exists but whose memory reverberates in sometimes unexpected ways not only today but as a projection into the future. "--$cProvided by publisher.
505 0 $aAfter the Berlin Wall : realigned worlds, invisible lines, and incalculable remnants / Jana Braziel and Katharina Gerstenberger -- Sex and the city : thoughts on literature, gender, and normalization in the New Germany / Sander L. Gilman -- Exploring Master Keaton's Germany : a Japanese perspective on the end of the Cold War / Shannon Granville -- From the Berlin Wall to the West Bank barrier : how material objects and psychological theories can be used to construct individual and cultural traits / Christine Leuenberger -- The diminishing relevance of Ostalgie twenty years after reunification / Paul Kubicek -- Ending Cold War divisions and establishing new partnerships : German unification and the transformation of German-Polish relations / Jonathan Murphy -- The fall of the Berlin Wall : the counterrevolution in Soviet foreign policy and the end of communism / Robert Snyder and Tim White -- "Seventh of November" from Berliner Ensemble / Douglas Cowie -- Specters of work : literature and labor in post-socialist Germany / Hunter Bivens -- The end of an event / Benjamin Robinson -- Building consensus : painting and the enlightenment tradition in post-Wall Germany / Anna Dempsey -- Berlin's history in context : the foreign ministry and the Spreebogen-Complex in the context of the architectural debates / Carol Anne Costabile-Heming -- Berlin Mitte and the anxious disavowal of Beijing modernism : architectural polemics within globalization / Daniel Purdy.
651 0 $aGermany$xHistory$yUnification, 1990.
650 0 $aBerlin Wall, Berlin, Germany, 1961-1989.
651 0 $aGermany$xForeign relations$y1990-
651 0 $aGermany$xCultural policy$y21st century.
650 0 $aNational characteristics, German.
650 0 $aCold War$xPolitical aspects.
650 0 $aCold war$xSocial aspects.
650 0 $aWorld politics$y1945-1989.
650 7 $aPOLITICAL SCIENCE / Globalization.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aPOLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / General.$2bisacsh
700 1 $aGerstenberger, Katharina,$d1961-
700 1 $aBraziel, Jana Evans,$d1967-