This collection demonstrates the persistence of the initial anxieties about a united Germany and its rapid absorption of the German Democratic Republic, and also suggests a potential optimism that, despite much contemporary domestic disenchantment, the new Germany continues to thrive as a European democracy endeavouring to confront its past.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Forward; R. A. Berman Introduction; R. A. Starkman INTELLECTUALS AND GERMAN HISTORY Intellectuals, the 'Third Way', and German Unification; B. R. Wheeler The Rebirth of Tragedy, History, and German Identity; S. Brockmann Fear and Loathing after 9/11: German Intellectuals and the American-Debate; K. Scherpe 'Are the Towers Still Standing?': The Fall and Rise of the Literary Intellectual; A. Lewis MATERIAL CULTURE EAST AND WEST GDR Music: 'Revolution' to 'Reunification'; P. Simpson Spies, Shell Games, and Bananas: Everyday Symbols and Metaphors in the Process of Cultural Integration of East and West Germany; G. Korff East German Visual Culture: Beyond Ostalgie; M. Blum GERMANY AND ITS MINORITIES Aussiedler and Auslander: Transforming German National Identity; N. Raethzel Immigration and Citizenship in 'Berlin Republic' 1990-2002; H. Kurthen (Re)constructing Community in Berlin: Turks, Jews, and German Responsibility; J. Laurence Perpetual Impossibility? : Normalization of German-Jewish Relations in the Berlin Republic; R. A. Starkman
