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Title Cultural topographies of the new Berlin / Karin Bauer and Jennifer Ruth Hosek
Published New York : Berghahn Books, 2018
©2018
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Description 1 online resource (vi, 411 pages.)
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on print version record
Subject Arts and society -- Germany -- Berlin -- History -- 21st century.
Minorities -- Germany -- Berlin.
Collective memory -- Germany -- Berlin.
SUBJECT Berlin (Germany) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79034972 -- Civilization -- 21st century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002006142
Form Electronic book
Author Bauer, Karin, 1958- editor of compilation
Hosek, Jennifer Ruth, editor of compilation
ISBN 9781785337215 (electronic bk.)
1785337211 (electronic bk.)