TY - BOOK AU - Bauer,Karin AU - Hosek,Jennifer Ruth TI - Cultural topographies of the new Berlin /Karin Bauer and Jennifer R. Hosek SN - 9781785337215 AV - DD866 .C858 2017 PY - 2018/// CY - New York PB - Berghahn Books KW - Arts and society KW - Germany KW - Berlin KW - History KW - 21st century KW - Minorities KW - Collective memory KW - Electronic Books N1 - 2; Contesting gentrification: subculture to mainstream --; Cultural history of post-wall Berlin: from utopian longing to nostalgia for Babylon; Katrina Sark --; Taking a walk on the wild side: Berlin and Christiane F.'s second life --; / susan ingram --; Representations and interpretations of "the new Berlin" in contemporary German comics; Lynn Marie Kutch --; Spaces, monuments, and the appropriation of history --; Reconfiguring the spaces of the "creative class" in contemporary Berlin; Simon Ward --; Negotiating Cold War legacies: the discursive ambiguity of Berlin's memory sites; Stefanie Eisenhuth & Scott H. Krause --; Branding the new Germany: the Brandenburg Gate and a new kind of German historical amnesia; Sarah Pogoda & Rudiger Traxler --; Disappearing history: challenges of imagining Berlin after 1989; Ayse N. Erek & Eszter Gantner --; Reimagining integration --; Governing through "ethnic entrepreneurship" --; Resisting integration: Neukolln artist responses to integration politics; Johanna Schuster-Craig --; The revival of diasporic Hebrew in contemporary Berlin; Hila Amit --; Berlin's international literature festival: globalizing the Bildungsburger; Marike Janzen --; Berlin memoryscapes of the present --; Transnational cityscapes: tracking Turkish-German histories in postwar Berlin; Christiane Steckenbiller --; Israeli Jews in the new Berlin : from Shoah memories to Middle Eastern encounters; Hadas Cohen and Dani Kranz --; Through the eyes of angels and vampires: Berlin ruins in wings of desire and we are the night; Peter Golz --; The uncanny city: Berlin in international film; Andre Schutze; 2; b N2 - Since Unification and the end of the Cold War, Berlin has witnessed a series of uncommonly intense social, political, and cultural transformations. While positioning itself as a creative center populated by young and cosmopolitan global citizens, the "New Berlin" is at the same time a rich site of historical memory, defined inescapably by its past even as it articulates German and European hopes for the future. Cultural Topographies of the New Berlin presents a fascinating cross-section of life in Germany's largest city, revealing the complex ways in which globalization, ethnicity, economics, memory, and national identity inflect how its urban spaces are inhabited and depicted UR - httpss://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1520308&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 ER -