Cultural Topographies of the New Berlin / / ed. by Karin Bauer, Jennifer Ruth Hosek.

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 h...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2017
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Place / Publishing House:New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2017]
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Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (420 p.)
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Other title:Frontmatter --
Contents --
List of Illustrations --
Introduction --
Part I: Contesting Gentrification: Subculture to Mainstream --
1. Cultural History of Post-Wall Berlin --
2. Taking a Walk on the Wild Side --
3. Representations and Interpretations of “The New Berlin” in Contemporary German Comics --
Part II: Spaces, Monuments, and the Appropriation of History --
4. Reconfiguring the Spaces of the “Creative Class” in Contemporary Berlin --
5. Negotiating Cold War Legacies --
6. Branding the New Germany --
7. Disappearing History --
Part III: Reimagining Integration --
8. Governing through “Ethnic Entrepreneurship” --
9. Resisting Integration --
10. The Revival of Diasporic Hebrew in Contemporary Berlin --
11. Berlin’s International Literature Festival --
Part IV: Berlin Memoryscapes of the Present --
12. Transnational Cityscapes --
13. Israeli Jews in the New Berlin --
14. Through the Eyes of Angels and Vampires --
15. The Uncanny City --
Index
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.
Format:Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
ISBN:9781785337215
9783110998214
DOI:10.1515/9781785337215?locatt=mode:legacy
Access:restricted access
Hierarchical level:Monograph
Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Karin Bauer, Jennifer Ruth Hosek.