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Ghetto Voices in Contemporary German Culture - Textscapes, Filmscapes, Soundscapes (Hardcover)
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Ghetto Voices in Contemporary German Culture - Textscapes, Filmscapes, Soundscapes (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
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Illuminates tensions and transformations in today's Germany by
examining literary, filmic, and musical treatments of the ghetto
metaphor. Accounts of how Germany has changed since unification
often portray the Berlin Republic as a new Germany that has left
the Nazi past and Cold War division behind and entered the new
millennium as a peaceful, worldly, and cautiously proud nation.
Closer inspection, however, reveals tensions between such views and
the realities of a country that continues to struggle with racism,
provincialism, and fear of the perceived Other. Mainstream media
foster such fears by describing violence in ghetto schools, failed
integration, and the loss of society's core values. The city
emerges as a key site not only of ethnic and political tension but
of social change. Maria Stehle illuminates these tensions and
transformations by following the metaphor of the ghetto in literary
works from the 1990s by Feridun Zaimoglu, in German ghettocentric
films from the late 1990s and the early twenty-first century, and
in hip-hop and rap music of the same periods. In their
representations of ghettos, authors, filmmakers, musicians, and
performers redefine and challenge provincialism and nationalism and
employ transcultural frameworks for their diverging political
agendas. By contextualizing these discussions within social and
political developments, this study illuminates the complexities
that define Germany today for scholars and students across the
disciplines of German, European,cultural, urban, and media studies.
Maria Stehle is Assistant Professor of German at the University of
Tennessee, Knoxville.
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