Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-238) and index.
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Introduction: locating the nation -- Searching for Germany in the 1980s -- A third path? -- Literature and politics -- Literature and the Stasi -- The rebirth of tragedy -- The defense of childhood and the guilt of the fathers -- The time and the place of the nation.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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"Placing the concept of the Kulturnation at the center of its analysis, the book explores the ways in which literature both responds to and helps to constitute notions of German national identity. Previous studies of postwar German literature have tended to avoid the problem of nationhood: this is one of the few books in any language to treat contemporary Germany as a cultural and national unity. The book discusses German literature from the early 1980s through the late 1990s, with a primary focus on the way in which authors of the 1990s have sought to cope with and respond to reunification and emerging questions about history, politics, and identity.
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Larger questions are addressed about the role of both the nation and a national literature in the context of economic and political globalization."--Jacket.
PERSONAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Deutsch, ...
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
German literature-- 20th century-- History and criticism.
German reunification question (1949-1990) in literature.
Literature and society-- Germany-- History-- 20th century.
Politics and literature-- Germany-- History-- 20th century.
Allemagne, Question de la réunification de l' (1949-1990) dans la littérature.
Littérature allemande-- 20e siècle-- Histoire et critique.
Littérature et société-- Allemagne-- Histoire-- 20e siècle.
Politique et littérature-- Allemagne-- Histoire-- 20e siècle.
Duits.
Duitse hereniging.
German literature-- 20th century-- History and criticism.
German literature.
German reunification question (1949-1990) in literature.
German reunification question (1949-1990) in literature.
Letterkunde.
Literatur
Literature and society-- Germany-- 20th century.
Literature and society.
Littérature allemande-- 20e siècle-- Histoire et critique.
Littérature et société-- Allemagne-- Histoire-- 20e siècle.
Politics and literature-- Germany-- 20th century.
Politics and literature.
Politique et littérature-- Allemagne-- Histoire-- 20e siècle.
Wiedervereinigung
GEOGRAPHICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Germany, History, Unification, 1990.
Allemagne, Histoire, 1990 (Réunification)
Allemagne, Histoire, 1990 (Unification)
Allemagne, question de la réunification de l' (1949-1990) dans la littérature.