Kinda Shortt is Associate Professor at the University of Warwick. Her research focuses on concepts of place, belonging, and attachment intwentieth- and twenty-first-century German-language literature and film. Significant publications in this area include: "Borders, Bordering,and Irregular Migration in Novels by Dorothee Elmiger and Olga Grjasnowa," MLR 116, no. 1 (2021): 134-52; and German Narrativesof Belonging: Writing Generation and Place in the Twenty-first Century (Oxford: Legenda, 2015). Kinda Shortt is Associate Professor at the University of Warwick. Her research focuses on concepts of place, belonging, and attachment intwentieth- and twenty-first-century German-language literature and film. Significant publications in this area include: "Borders, Bordering,and Irregular Migration in Novels by Dorothee Elmiger and Olga Grjasnowa," MLR 116, no. 1 (2021): 134-52; and German Narrativesof Belonging: Writing Generation and Place in the Twenty-first Century (Oxford: Legenda, 2015).

[T]he editors and contributors . . . have largely succeeded in their attempt to provide a fairly detailed overview of the current debates about what constitutes post-unification German cultural identity by covering a wide range of subjects from a variety of perspectives.

• Introduction - Anne Fuchs and Kathleen James-Chakraborty and Linda Shortt1989 and the Chronological Imagination - Peter FritzscheUnity on Trial: The Mauerschützenprozesse and the East-West Rifts of Unified Germany - Pertti AhonenApples, Identity, and Memory in Post-1989 Germany - Jennifer A. JordanTopographical Turns: Recasting Berlin in Christian Petzold's Gespenster - Andrew J. WebberInterrupting Unity: The Berlin Wall's Second Life on Screen - a Transnational Perspective - Deniz GokturkBeyond the Wall: Reunifying Berlin - Kathleen James-ChakrabortyThe Rebirth of Historic Dresden - Jürgen PaulLabyrinths, Mazes, and Mosaics: Fiction by Christa Wolf, Ingo Schulze, Antje Rávic Strubel, and Jens Sparschuh - Elizabeth BoaReimagining the West: West Germany, Westalgia, and the Generation of 1978 - Linda Shortt"Dem Sichtbaren war nicht ganz zu trauen": Poetic Reflections on German Unification in Angela Kraussand Monika Maron - Anja JohannsenCultural Topography and Emotional Legacies in Durs Grünbein's Dresden Poetry - Anne FuchsHistory from a Bird's Eye View: Reimagining the Past in Marcel Beyer's Kaltenburg - Aleida AssmannWorks CitedNotes on the ContributorsIndex

Kinda Shortt is Associate Professor at the University of Warwick. Her research focuses on concepts of place, belonging, and attachment intwentieth- and twenty-first-century German-language literature and film. Significant publications in this area include: "Borders, Bordering,and Irregular Migration in Novels by Dorothee Elmiger and Olga Grjasnowa," MLR 116, no. 1 (2021): 134-52; and German Narrativesof Belonging: Writing Generation and Place in the Twenty-first Century (Oxford: Legenda, 2015). Kinda Shortt is Associate Professor at the University of Warwick. Her research focuses on concepts of place, belonging, and attachment intwentieth- and twenty-first-century German-language literature and film. Significant publications in this area include: "Borders, Bordering,and Irregular Migration in Novels by Dorothee Elmiger and Olga Grjasnowa," MLR 116, no. 1 (2021): 134-52; and German Narrativesof Belonging: Writing Generation and Place in the Twenty-first Century (Oxford: Legenda, 2015).

[T]he editors and contributors . . . have largely succeeded in their attempt to provide a fairly detailed overview of the current debates about what constitutes post-unification German cultural identity by covering a wide range of subjects from a variety of perspectives.

• Introduction - Anne Fuchs and Kathleen James-Chakraborty and Linda Shortt1989 and the Chronological Imagination - Peter FritzscheUnity on Trial: The Mauerschützenprozesse and the East-West Rifts of Unified Germany - Pertti AhonenApples, Identity, and Memory in Post-1989 Germany - Jennifer A. JordanTopographical Turns: Recasting Berlin in Christian Petzold's Gespenster - Andrew J. WebberInterrupting Unity: The Berlin Wall's Second Life on Screen - a Transnational Perspective - Deniz GokturkBeyond the Wall: Reunifying Berlin - Kathleen James-ChakrabortyThe Rebirth of Historic Dresden - Jürgen PaulLabyrinths, Mazes, and Mosaics: Fiction by Christa Wolf, Ingo Schulze, Antje Rávic Strubel, and Jens Sparschuh - Elizabeth BoaReimagining the West: West Germany, Westalgia, and the Generation of 1978 - Linda Shortt"Dem Sichtbaren war nicht ganz zu trauen": Poetic Reflections on German Unification in Angela Kraussand Monika Maron - Anja JohannsenCultural Topography and Emotional Legacies in Durs Grünbein's Dresden Poetry - Anne FuchsHistory from a Bird's Eye View: Reimagining the Past in Marcel Beyer's Kaltenburg - Aleida AssmannWorks CitedNotes on the ContributorsIndex

Kinda Shortt is Associate Professor at the University of Warwick. Her research focuses on concepts of place, belonging, and attachment intwentieth- and twenty-first-century German-language literature and film. Significant publications in this area include: "Borders, Bordering,and Irregular Migration in Novels by Dorothee Elmiger and Olga Grjasnowa," MLR 116, no. 1 (2021): 134-52; and German Narrativesof Belonging: Writing Generation and Place in the Twenty-first Century (Oxford: Legenda, 2015). Kinda Shortt is Associate Professor at the University of Warwick. Her research focuses on concepts of place, belonging, and attachment intwentieth- and twenty-first-century German-language literature and film. Significant publications in this area include: "Borders, Bordering,and Irregular Migration in Novels by Dorothee Elmiger and Olga Grjasnowa," MLR 116, no. 1 (2021): 134-52; and German Narrativesof Belonging: Writing Generation and Place in the Twenty-first Century (Oxford: Legenda, 2015).

[T]he editors and contributors . . . have largely succeeded in their attempt to provide a fairly detailed overview of the current debates about what constitutes post-unification German cultural identity by covering a wide range of subjects from a variety of perspectives.

• Introduction - Anne Fuchs and Kathleen James-Chakraborty and Linda Shortt1989 and the Chronological Imagination - Peter FritzscheUnity on Trial: The Mauerschützenprozesse and the East-West Rifts of Unified Germany - Pertti AhonenApples, Identity, and Memory in Post-1989 Germany - Jennifer A. JordanTopographical Turns: Recasting Berlin in Christian Petzold's Gespenster - Andrew J. WebberInterrupting Unity: The Berlin Wall's Second Life on Screen - a Transnational Perspective - Deniz GokturkBeyond the Wall: Reunifying Berlin - Kathleen James-ChakrabortyThe Rebirth of Historic Dresden - Jürgen PaulLabyrinths, Mazes, and Mosaics: Fiction by Christa Wolf, Ingo Schulze, Antje Rávic Strubel, and Jens Sparschuh - Elizabeth BoaReimagining the West: West Germany, Westalgia, and the Generation of 1978 - Linda Shortt"Dem Sichtbaren war nicht ganz zu trauen": Poetic Reflections on German Unification in Angela Kraussand Monika Maron - Anja JohannsenCultural Topography and Emotional Legacies in Durs Grünbein's Dresden Poetry - Anne FuchsHistory from a Bird's Eye View: Reimagining the Past in Marcel Beyer's Kaltenburg - Aleida AssmannWorks CitedNotes on the ContributorsIndex