The twentieth-century history of few countries has been so
profoundly marked by breaks, discontinuities, and ruptures as has
Germany's--the radical breaks between the Wilhelmine empire, the
Weimar Republic, and the National Socialist period; the "end of
history" in 1945 and the dual reconstruction from "Year Zero,"
followed by the reunification of post-1989 German. This special
issue of "South Atlantic Quarterly" focuses on the many dimensions
of these discontinuities--social, political, cultural, aesthetic,
psychological, and physical--as well as the continuities that are
equally, if less apparently, implied by them.
The contributions presented here include Fredric Jameson's
"Ramblings in Old Berlin," Gunter Grass's "Lonesome Capitalism,"
and Peter Weiss's "Aesthetics of Resistance." Among the topics
discussed in the volume are the debate over Holocaust memorials in
Germany and the significance of their connections to the German
past, the problematic continuity that identifies the new unified
Germany with the former Federal Republic; the dangers to women
posed by the neoliberal project; the legacy of the avant-garde in
today's media theory; "Ars nova" and "Doktor Faustus;" nostalgia
for the old German Democratic Republic; and reflections on
traumatic memory and history as trauma.
"Contributors. "Ulrich Baer, Michael Geyer, Gunter Grass, Frigga
Haug, Julia Hell, Fredric Jameson, Juliet Koss, Andreas Michel,
Martin Morris, Arkady Plotnitsky, Pierra Vidal-Naquet, Peter Weiss,
James E. Young
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