{"product_id":"writing-the-new-berlin-the-german-capital-in-post-wall-literature-paperback","title":"Writing the New Berlin: The German Capital in Post-Wall Literature - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKatharina Gerstenberger\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA study of the \"patchwork imaginary\" that is postwall Berlin fiction and its significance for the new Germany. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe wall was still coming down when critics began to call for the great Berlin novel that could explain what was happening to Germany and the Germans. Such a novel never appeared. Instead, writers have created a patchwork imaginary -- in the form of about 300 works of fiction set in Berlin -- of a city and a nation whose identity collapsed virtually overnight. Contributors to this literary collage include established writers like Peter Schneider and Christa Wolf, young authors like Tanja Dückers and Ingo Schramm, German-Turkish authors Zafer Senocak and Yadé Kara, and the Austrians Kathrin Röggla and Marlene Streeruwitz. The non-arrival of the great Berlin novel marks the reorientation in German culture and literature that is the focus of this study: the experience of unification was too diverse, too postmodern, too influenced by global developments to be captured by one novel. Berlin literature of the postunification decade is marked by ambiguity: change is linked to questions of historical continuity; postmodern simulation finds its counterpart in a quest for authenticity; and the assimilation of Germanness into European and global contexts is both liberation and loss. This book pursues a nuanced understanding of the search for new ways to tell the story of Germany's past and of its importance for the formation of a new German identity. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Katharina Gerstenberger is Professor of German at the University of Cincinnati.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 220\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.51 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 01, 2011\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42113927905415,"sku":"9781571135131","price":51.28,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/642c2f8a1f6eccc1a499cc5522dd6d8c.webp?v=1732493597","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/writing-the-new-berlin-the-german-capital-in-post-wall-literature-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}