Beyond political correctness : remapping German sensibilities in the 21st century / / edited by Christina Anton and Frank Pilipp.

The articles assembled in this book discuss important questions about German society and the very notion of what being German means in the age of globalization and the vanishing of nation-states in a continuously strengthening European Union; the question about what is German culture in a postmodern...

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Superior document:German monitor ; 72
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Year of Publication:2010
Language:English
Series:German monitor ; 72.
Physical Description:1 online resource (273 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary material / Editors Beyond Political Correctness
  • Repositioning German Identity / Christine Anton
  • Catastrophic History, Trauma and Mourning in W.G. Sebald and Jörg Friedrich / Helmut Schmitz
  • Historiography and Memory Politics: The Cultural-Historical Discourse in the Works of Bernhard Schlink / Christine Anton
  • A Different Voice: ‘Vergangenheitsbewältigung’ in Ruth Klüger’s weiter leben and unterwegs verloren / Norgard Klages
  • A Human Being or a Good Jew? Individualism in Vladimir Vertlib’s Novel Letzter Wunsch / Dagmar C. G. Lorenz
  • Normalization and the Ethics of Holocaust Representation in Vilsmaier’s Leo und Claire and Comedian Harmonists / Muriel Cormican
  • Searching for Justice: Jews, Germans and the Nazi Past in Recent German Cinema / Sabine von Mering
  • Challenging Notions of Post-Wall German Identity: Minority and Migrant Voices / Jennifer E. Michaels
  • Unification and Difference in German Post-Wall Cinema / Susan C. Anderson
  • Post-Wall German Road Movies: Renegotiations of National Identity? / David N. Coury and Frank Pilipp
  • LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS / Editors Beyond Political Correctness
  • Index / Editors Beyond Political Correctness.