Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 “Normalization”: Has Helmut Kohl's Vision Been Realized?
- 2 Coping with Disparity: Continuity and Discontinuity in Economic Policy since Unification
- 3 Understanding Germany: The Limits of “Normalization” and the Prevalence of Strategic Culture
- 4 “Normalization” through Europeanization: The Role of the Holocaust
- 5 “Representing Normality”: Architecture in Berlin
- 6 “Normalizing” the Past: East German Culture and Ostalgie
- 7 National Memory's Schlüsselkinder: Migration, Pedagogy, and German Remembrance Culture
- 8 The Return of “Undead” History: The West German Terrorist as Vampire and the Problem of “Normalizing” the Past in Margarethe von Trotta's Die bleierne Zeit (1981) and Christian Petzold's Die innere Sicherheit (2001)
- 9 “Normalizing” the “Old” Federal Republic? The FRG between 1949 and 1989 in Recent German Fiction
- 10 Reconciliation between the Generations: The Image of the Ordinary German Soldier in Dieter Wellershoff's Der Ernstfall and Ulla Hahn's Unscharfe Bilder
- 11 “(un)sägliche Vergleiche”: What Germans Remembered (and Forgot) in Former Yugoslavia in the 1990s
- 12 “Normal” as “Apolitical”: Uwe Timm's Rot and Thomas Brussig's Leben bis Männer
- 13 “Narrative Normalization” and Günter Grass's Im Krebsgang
- 14 From “Normalization” to Globalization. German Fiction into the New Millennium: Christian Kracht, Ingo Schulze, and Feridun Zaimoğlu
- 15 Abnormal Consensus? The New Internationalism of German Cinema
- Notes on the Contributors
- Index
Acknowledgments
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 February 2013
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 “Normalization”: Has Helmut Kohl's Vision Been Realized?
- 2 Coping with Disparity: Continuity and Discontinuity in Economic Policy since Unification
- 3 Understanding Germany: The Limits of “Normalization” and the Prevalence of Strategic Culture
- 4 “Normalization” through Europeanization: The Role of the Holocaust
- 5 “Representing Normality”: Architecture in Berlin
- 6 “Normalizing” the Past: East German Culture and Ostalgie
- 7 National Memory's Schlüsselkinder: Migration, Pedagogy, and German Remembrance Culture
- 8 The Return of “Undead” History: The West German Terrorist as Vampire and the Problem of “Normalizing” the Past in Margarethe von Trotta's Die bleierne Zeit (1981) and Christian Petzold's Die innere Sicherheit (2001)
- 9 “Normalizing” the “Old” Federal Republic? The FRG between 1949 and 1989 in Recent German Fiction
- 10 Reconciliation between the Generations: The Image of the Ordinary German Soldier in Dieter Wellershoff's Der Ernstfall and Ulla Hahn's Unscharfe Bilder
- 11 “(un)sägliche Vergleiche”: What Germans Remembered (and Forgot) in Former Yugoslavia in the 1990s
- 12 “Normal” as “Apolitical”: Uwe Timm's Rot and Thomas Brussig's Leben bis Männer
- 13 “Narrative Normalization” and Günter Grass's Im Krebsgang
- 14 From “Normalization” to Globalization. German Fiction into the New Millennium: Christian Kracht, Ingo Schulze, and Feridun Zaimoğlu
- 15 Abnormal Consensus? The New Internationalism of German Cinema
- Notes on the Contributors
- Index
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- German Culture, Politics, and Literature into the Twenty-First CenturyBeyond Normalization, pp. vii - viiiPublisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2006