Overview

Since Unification and the end of the Cold War, Berlin has witnessed a series of uncommonly intense social, political, and cultural transformations. While positioning itself as a creative center populated by young and cosmopolitan global citizens, the New Berlin is at the same time a rich site of historical memory, defined inescapably by its past even as it articulates German and European hopes for the future. Cultural Topographies of the New Berlin presents a fascinating cross-section of life in Germany's largest city, revealing the complex ways in which globalization, ethnicity, economics, memory, and national identity inflect how its urban spaces are inhabited and depicted.

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Author:   Karin Bauer ,  Jennifer Ruth Hosek
Publisher:   Berghahn Books
Imprint:   Berghahn Books
ISBN:  

9781789205220

ISBN 10:   1789205220
Pages:   420
Publication Date:   12 July 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Illustrations Introduction Karin Bauer and Jennifer Ruth Hosek PART I: CONTESTING GENTRIFICATION: SUBCULTURE TO MAINSTREAM Chapter 1. Cultural History of Post-Wall Berlin: From Utopian Longing to Nostalgia for Babylon Katrina Sark Chapter 2. Taking a Walk on the Wild Side: Berlin and Christiane F.'s Second Life Susan Ingram Chapter 3. Representations and Interpretations of The New Berlin in Contemporary German Comics Lynn Marie Kutch PART II: SPACES, MONUMENTS, AND THE APPROPRIATION OF HISTORY Chapter 4. Reconfiguring the Spaces of the Creative Class in Contemporary Berlin Simon Ward Chapter 5. Negotiating Cold War Legacies: The Discursive Ambiguity of Berlin's Memory Sites Stefanie Eisenhuth and Scott H. Krause Chapter 6. Branding the New Germany-The Brandenburg Gate and a New Kind of German Historical Amnesia Sarah Pogoda and Rudiger Traxler Chapter 7. Disappearing History: Challenges of Imagining Berlin after 1989 Ayse N. Erek and Eszter Gantner PART III: RE-IMAGINING INTEGRATION Chapter 8. Governing through Ethnic Entrepreneurship Baris UElker Chapter 9. Resisting Integration: Neukoelln Artist Responses to Integration Politics Johanna Schuster-Craig Chapter 10. The Revival of Diasporic Hebrew in Contemporary Berlin Hila Amit Chapter 11. Berlin's International Literature Festival: Globalizing the Bildungsburger Marike Janzen PART IV: BERLIN MEMORYSCAPES OF THE PRESENT Chapter 12. Transnational Cityscapes: Tracking Turkish-German Hi/Stories in Postwar Berlin Christiane Steckenbiller Chapter 13. Israeli Jews in the New Berlin: From Shoah Memories to Middle Eastern Encounters Hadas Cohen and Dani Kranz Chapter 14. Through the Eyes of Angels and Vampires: Berlin Ruins in Wings of Desire and We Are the Night Peter Goelz Chapter 15. The Uncanny City: Berlin in International Film Andre Schutze Index

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...an indispensable resource for any scholar who works on Berlin, and any person who is interested in the changing dynamics of urban space. The collection is thoughtfully conceived, and extremely well edited, as many of the wide-ranging contributions are cross-referenced and intertextual. The footnotes offer a wealth of useful material and the chapter bibliographies combine to form a complete picture of English-language literature on Berlin, while highlighting relevant disciplinary sources. German Studies Review

In sum, Cultural Topographies of the New Berlin is an important, fresh, and invigorating addition to Berlin scholarship, and its broad interdisciplinary scope makes it a highly recommended read for researchers and students with an interest in the many facets of Germany's capital. Most importantly, it more than lives up to its premise and provides challenging and illuminating answers for those seeking to find out about Berlin today. * Feminist German Studies ...an indispensable resource for any scholar who works on Berlin, and any person who is interested in the changing dynamics of urban space. The collection is thoughtfully conceived, and extremely well edited, as many of the wide-ranging contributions are cross-referenced and intertextual. The footnotes offer a wealth of useful material and the chapter bibliographies combine to form a complete picture of English-language literature on Berlin, while highlighting relevant disciplinary sources. * German Studies Review This timely and stimulating book provides fresh insights into many issues of today's Berlin. Its contributions have been carefully selected and aligned with one another, and their combination makes for an entirely unique approach to the topic. * Peter McIsaac, University of Michigan

Author Information

Karin Bauer is Professor of German Studies at McGill University and former editor of Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies. Her publications include Adorno's Nietzschean Narratives: Critiques of Ideology, Readings of Wagner and Everybody Talks about the Weather: We Don't, along with numerous articles on critical theory and contemporary German literature and culture.

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