Cultural Topographies of the New Berlin

Karin Bauer is Professor of German Studies at McGill University and former editor of Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies. Her publications include Adorno's Nietzschean Narratives: Critiques of Ideology, Readings of Wagner and Everybody Talks about the Weather: We Don't, along with numerous articles on critical theory and contemporary German literature and culture.Jennifer Ruth Hosek is Associate Professor of German at Queen's University, affiliated with the departments of Film, Gender, and Cultural Studies. Her scholarly projects include the monograph Sun, Sex, and Socialism: Cuba in the German Imaginary and the documentary Rodando en La Habana: Bicycle Stories.

• IllustrationsIntroductionKarin Bauer and Jennifer Ruth HosekPART I: CONTESTING GENTRIFICATION: SUBCULTURE TO MAINSTREAMChapter 1. Cultural History of Post-Wall Berlin: From Utopian Longing to Nostalgia for BabylonKatrina SarkChapter 2. Taking a Walk on the Wild Side: Berlin and Christiane F.'s Second LifeSusan IngramChapter 3. Representations and Interpretations of "The New Berlin" in Contemporary German ComicsLynn Marie KutchPART II: SPACES, MONUMENTS, AND THE APPROPRIATION OF HISTORYChapter 4. Reconfiguring the Spaces of the "Creative Class" in Contemporary BerlinSimon WardChapter 5. Negotiating Cold War Legacies: The Discursive Ambiguity of Berlin's Memory SitesStefanie Eisenhuth and Scott H. KrauseChapter 6. Branding the New Germany-The Brandenburg Gate and a New Kind of German Historical AmnesiaSarah Pogoda and Rudiger TraxlerChapter 7. Disappearing History: Challenges of Imagining Berlin after 1989Ayse N. Erek and Eszter GantnerPART III: RE-IMAGINING INTEGRATIONChapter 8. Governing through "Ethnic Entrepreneurship"Baris UElkerChapter 9. Resisting Integration: Neukoeln Artist Responses to Integration PoliticsJohanna Schuster-CraigChapter 10. The Revival of Diasporic Hebrew in Contemporary BerlinHila AmitChapter 11. Berlin's International Literature Festival: Globalizing the BildungsburgerMarike JanzenPART IV: BERLIN MEMORYSCAPES OF THE PRESENTChapter 12. Transnational Cityscapes: Tracking Turkish-German Hi/Stories in Postwar BerlinChristiane SteckenbillerChapter 13. Israeli Jews in the New Berlin: From Shoah Memories to Middle Eastern EncountersHadas Cohen and Dani KranzChapter 14. Through the Eyes of Angels and Vampires: Berlin Ruins in Wings of Desire and We Are the NightPeter GoelzChapter 15. The Uncanny City: Berlin in International FilmAndre SchutzeIndex

"...an indispensable resource for any scholar who works on Berlin, and any person who is interested in the changing dynamics of urban space. The collection is thoughtfully conceived, and extremely well edited, as many of the wide-ranging contributions are cross-referenced and intertextual. The footnotes offer a wealth of useful material and the chapter bibliographies combine to form a complete picture of English-language literature on Berlin, while highlighting relevant disciplinary sources." German Studies Review