German Culture, Politics, and Literature into the Twenty-First Century (EPDF) von Stuart Taberner

The first major study of the contemporary German debate over "normalization" and its impact across the range of cultural, political, economic, intellectual, and historical discourses.

Introduction - Stuart Taberner and Paul Cooke
"Normalization": Has Helmut Kohl's Vision Been Realized? - Stephen Brockmann
Coping with Disparity: Continuity and Discontinuity in Economic Policy since Unification - Jeremy Leaman
Understanding Germany: The Limits of "Normalization" and the Prevalence of Strategic Culture - Sebastian Harnisch
Understanding Germany: The Limits of "Normalization" and the Prevalence of Strategic Culture - Kerry Longhurst
"Normalization" through Europeanization: The Role of the Holocaust - Lothar Probst
"Representing Normality": Architecture in Berlin - Simon Ward
"Normalizing" the Past: East German Culture andOstalgie - Anna Saunders
National Memory'sSchlüsselkinder: Migration, Pedagogy, and German Remembrance Culture - Annette Seidel Arpaci
The Return of "Undead" History: The West German Terrorist as Vampire and the Problem of "Normalizing" the Past in Margarethe von Trotta'sDie bleierne Zeit [1981] and Christian Petzold'sDie innere Sicherheit bleierne Zeit [1981] and Christi - Chris Homewood
"Normalizing" the "Old" Federal Republic? The FRG between 1949 and 1989 in Recent German Fiction - Andrew Plowman
Reconciliation between the Generations: The Image of the Ordinary German Soldier in Dieter Wellershoff's Der Ernstfall - Helmut Schmitz
"[un]sägliche Vergleiche": What Germans Remembered [and Forgot] in Former Yugoslavia in the 1990s - Karoline von Oppen
"Normal" as "Apolitical": Uwe Timm'sRot and Thomas Brussig'sLeben bis Männer - William Collins Donahue
"Narrative Normalization" and Günter Grass'sIm Krebsgang - Kathrin Schodel
From "Normalization" to Globalization. German Fiction into the New Millennium: Christian Kracht, Ingo Schulze, and Feridun Zaimoglu - Stuart Taberner
Abnormal Consensus? The New Internationalism of German Cinema - Paul Cooke