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The wall was still coming down when critics began to call for the great Berlin novel that could explain what was happening to Germany and the Germans. Such a novel never appeared. Instead, writers have created a patchwork imaginary - in the form of about 300 works of fiction set in Berlin - of a city and a nation whose identity collapsed virtually overnight. Contributors to this literary collage include established writers like Peter Schneider and Christa Wolf, young authors like Tanja Dückers and Ingo Schramm, German-Turkish authors Zafer Senocak and Yadé Kara, and the Austrians Kathrin Röggla and Marlene Streeruwitz. The non-arrival of the great Berlin novel marks the reorientation in German culture and literature that is the focus of this study: the experience of unification was too diverse, too postmodern, too influenced by global developments to be captured by one novel. Berlin literature of the postunification decade is marked by ambiguity: change is linked to questions of historical continuity; postmodern simulation finds its counterpart in a quest for authenticity; and the assimilation of Germanness into European and global contexts is both liberation and loss. This book pursues a nuanced understanding of the search for new ways to tell the story of Germany's past and of its importance for the formation of a new German identity. Katharina Gerstenberger is associate professor of German at the University of Cincinnati.

German literature --- Literature and society --- National characteristics, German. --- Social change --- History and criticism. --- History --- National characteristics, German, in literature. --- Berlin (Germany) --- In literature. --- Change, Social --- Cultural change --- Cultural transformation --- Societal change --- Socio-cultural change --- Social history --- Social evolution --- Literature --- Literature and sociology --- Society and literature --- Sociology and literature --- Sociolinguistics --- Social aspects --- Baralīna (Germany) --- Berlijn (Germany) --- Berlim (Germany) --- Berlin (Germany : State) --- Berlin State (Germany) --- Berlino (Germany) --- Berlinum (Germany) --- Berolinum (Germany) --- Land Berlin (Germany) --- Stadt Berlin (Germany) --- Verolino (Germany) --- Berlin (Germany : East) --- Berlin (Germany : West) --- Berlin. --- Cultural discourses. --- Germany. --- Globalization. --- Identity. --- Literature. --- Polarization. --- Post-Wall.

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Architecture and women --- Space (Architecture) --- Geschiedenis van opvoeding en onderwijs --- handboeken en inleidingen --- Berlin (Germany) --- Social conditions --- -Berlin (Germany) --- -396 --- 643 --- 711.4 <430.1> --- 72.035 <43> --- 72.036 <43> --- 72.01 --- Architecture and space --- Space and architectural mass --- Space in architecture --- Architecture --- City planning --- Women and architecture --- Women --- Feminisme. Vrouwenbeweging. Vrouw en maatschappij --- The home. The dwelling --- Gemeentelijke planologie. Stadsplanning. Stedenbouw--Westduitsland. Bondsrepubliek Duitsland --- Oude bouwstijlen in de 19e eeuw. Post-renaissance in de architectuur--Duitsland voor 1945 en na 1989 --- Moderne bouwkunst. Architectuur van de 20e eeuw--Duitsland voor 1945 en na 1989 --- Architectuurtheorie. Bouwprincipes. Esthetica van de bouwkunst. Filosofie van de bouwkunst --- Composition, proportion, etc. --- handboeken en inleidingen. --- 72.01 Architectuurtheorie. Bouwprincipes. Esthetica van de bouwkunst. Filosofie van de bouwkunst --- 72.036 <43> Moderne bouwkunst. Architectuur van de 20e eeuw--Duitsland voor 1945 en na 1989 --- 72.035 <43> Oude bouwstijlen in de 19e eeuw. Post-renaissance in de architectuur--Duitsland voor 1945 en na 1989 --- 711.4 <430.1> Gemeentelijke planologie. Stadsplanning. Stedenbouw--Westduitsland. Bondsrepubliek Duitsland --- 643 The home. The dwelling --- 396 Feminisme. Vrouwenbeweging. Vrouw en maatschappij --- Handboeken en inleidingen. --- 396 --- Stadt Berlin (Germany) --- Berlin (Germany : State) --- Berlim (Germany) --- Baralīna (Germany) --- Berolinum (Germany) --- Berlinum (Germany) --- Verolino (Germany) --- Land Berlin (Germany) --- Berlin State (Germany) --- Berlino (Germany) --- Berlijn (Germany) --- Berlin (Germany : West) --- Berlin (Germany : East) --- 72.01 Theory and philosophy of architecture. Principles of design, proportion, optical effect --- Theory and philosophy of architecture. Principles of design, proportion, optical effect --- Negative space (Architecture) --- 396 Feminism. Women's movement. Woman and society --- Feminism. Women's movement. Woman and society