Cultural Studies of Modern Germany: History, Representation, and Nationhood
by Russell A. Berman
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The opening of the Berlin Wall uncovered a host of political, cultural, and historical concerns. The German past, which seemed frozen beneath the divisions of the Cold War, has re-emerged, eliciting both enthusiasm and apprehension. Russell A. Berman argues that, for the Germans, national unity will mean either encompassing democracy or exclusionary politics - a dilemma that is far from new in German history. Berman probes the ambiguities of German nationhood. Taking the theoretical show more perspective of cultural studies, he looks at literature, painting, and film from the 19th and 20th centuries, to consider how nationhood is constituted and how it can be represented, what separates it from other populations, and how the legacy of history frames the definition of identities and institutions in the present. show lessTags
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Russell A. Berman, the Walter A. Haas Professor in the Humanities at Stanford University, is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institutions.
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- History, Nonfiction, Anthropology, Literature Studies and Criticism, Politics and Government
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- 943.087 — History & geography History of Europe Central Europe: Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Czech, Poland, Hungary Historical periods of Germany Germany 1866- East And West 1945-1990
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- DD67 .B47 — History of Europe, Asia, Africa and Oceania Germany History of Germany Antiquities. Social life and customs. Ethnography
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