Cultural Transformations in the New Germany: American and German Perspectives

Abstract

Part 1 German identities: the national identity of the GDR - antifascism, historiography, literature, Peter C. Pfeiffer citizenship as process - German identity in an age of reconstruction, Joyce Marie Mushaben the future requires an origin - East-West German identity, the opportunities and difficulties of cultural politics, Hermann Glaser coming home into exile - the end of Romanian-German culture, Erika Nielsen. Part 2 Politics of literary history and the literary canon: new contexts for GDR literature - an American perspective, Patricia Herminghouse canons crumble just like walls - discovering the works of GDR women writers, Karen Jankowsky do we need to rewrite German literary history since 1945? - a German perspective, Wolfgang Emmerich voices from No Man's Land - recent German poetry, Peter Geist. Part 3 Transformations in cultural politics and cultural institutions: the responsibility of the intellectual - the case of the East Berlin Counter-culture, Friederike Eigler contours of a new academic landscape - research institutes and the university systems in the new German states, Therese Hornigk new models of local cultural projects - the example of Prenzlauer Berg, Matthias Rau challenges for cultural politics in the new Germany - the example of Saxony, Jurgen U. Ohlau.