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Cultural topographies of the new Berlin / Karin Bauer and Jennifer Ruth Hosek.

Other author/creatorBauer, Karin, 1958- editor.
Other author/creatorHosek, Jennifer Ruth, editor.
Format Book and Print
Publication Info New York : Berghahn Books, 2018.
Copyright Notice ©2018
Descriptionvi, 411 pages ; 24 cm
Subject(s)
Contents Contesting gentrification: subculture to mainstream -- Cultural history of post-wall Berlin: from utopian longing to nostalgia for Babylon / Katrina Sark -- Taking a walk on the wild side: Berlin and Christiane F.'s second life -- / susan ingram -- Representations and interpretations of "the new Berlin" in contemporary German comics / Lynn Marie Kutch -- Spaces, monuments, and the appropriation of history -- Reconfiguring the spaces of the "creative class" in contemporary Berlin / Simon Ward -- Negotiating Cold War legacies: the discursive ambiguity of Berlin's memory sites / Stefanie Eisenhuth & Scott H. Krause -- Branding the new Germany: the Brandenburg Gate and a new kind of German historical amnesia / Sarah Pogoda & Rudiger Traxler -- Disappearing history: challenges of imagining Berlin after 1989 / Ayse N. Erek & Eszter Gantner -- Reimagining integration -- Governing through "ethnic entrepreneurship" -- Resisting integration: Neukolln artist responses to integration politics / Johanna Schuster-Craig -- The revival of diasporic Hebrew in contemporary Berlin / Hila Amit -- Berlin's international literature festival: globalizing the Bildungsburger / Marike Janzen -- Berlin memoryscapes of the present -- Transnational cityscapes: tracking Turkish-German histories in postwar Berlin / Christiane Steckenbiller -- Israeli Jews in the new Berlin : from Shoah memories to Middle Eastern encounters / Hadas Cohen & Dani Kranz -- Through the eyes of angels and vampires: Berlin ruins in wings of desire and we are the night / Peter Golz -- The uncanny city: Berlin in international film / Andre Schutze.
Summary 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Issued in other formOnline version: Cultural topographies of the new Berlin New York : Berghahn Books, [2018] 9781785337215
Genre/formHistory.
LCCN 2017047873
ISBN9781785337208 hardcover alkaline paper
ISBN1785337203 hardcover alkaline paper

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