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Fuchs, Anne and James-Chakraborty, K. (2012) Introduction. New German Critique, Vol.39 (No.2 116). pp. 1-9. doi:10.1215/0094033X-1550827 ISSN 0094-033X.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-1550827
Abstract
In their introduction to a New German Critique special issue published in 2003, Andreas Huyssen, Werner Jung, and Peter M. McIsaac highlighted the urgency of “tak[ing] stock of the marked shifts in the literary and cultural terrain of the newly forming ‘Berlin Republic.’” They noted that German literature in particular was characterized by a vibrant diversity that could no longer be understood in terms of the aesthetic and political traditions of the East and the West prior to unification. Evidently, 1989 marked a rupture that dislodged the social, political, and cultural premises that had defined the postwar period. The public perception of 1989 as an instantaneously recognizable ending was subsequently translated into a discourse on normalization. It anxiously posited the return to a “normal” national narrative that had previously been disrupted by National Socialism as well as by Germany’s postwar division. Wilhelmine and Weimar Germany now became alternative templates on which to graft the new Berlin Republic. The special issue already challenged the onedimensionality of this “soft” relationship to the past by exploring diverse literary responses to 1989. The editors of the present issue continue this debate through an interdisciplinary analysis of spatial tropes in contemporary literature, architecture, and photography.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > School of Modern Languages and Cultures > German Studies | ||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | New German Critique | ||||
| Publisher: | Duke University Press | ||||
| ISSN: | 0094-033X | ||||
| Official Date: | 2012 | ||||
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| Volume: | Vol.39 | ||||
| Number: | No.2 116 | ||||
| Page Range: | pp. 1-9 | ||||
| DOI: | 10.1215/0094033X-1550827 | ||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
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