After the Berlin Wall
Germany and Beyond

Twenty years after its fall, the wall that divided Berlin and Germany presents a conceptual paradox: on one hand, Germans have sought to erase it completely; on the other, it haunts the imagination in complex and often surprising ways

Twenty years after its fall, the wall that divided Berlin and Germany presents a conceptual paradox: on one hand, Germans have sought to erase it completely; on the other, it haunts the imagination in complex and often surprising ways. Similarly, Cold War divisions resonate in the global image of the "new Germany." Several overlapping themes run through the essays: the exportation of German post-wall debates into other cultural contexts and representations of the Wall within non-German settings; the emergence of visual, literary, and psychological imagery derived from the Berlin Wall well beyond its existence; the importance of space, geographical, political, as well as imagined, in the aftermath of the Wall; and the continued artistic as well as socio-historical engagement with East Germany as a state that no longer exists but whose memory reverberates in sometimes unexpected ways not only today but as a projection into the future.

Sex and the City: German Culture in World Culture Twenty Years After
S.L.Gilman
From the Berlin Wall to the West Bank Barrier: How Material Culture is Used in Psychological Theory
C.Leuenberger
Exploring Master Keaton's Germany: A Japanese Perspective on the End of the Cold War
S.Granville
Ending Cold War Divisions and Establishing New Partnerships: German Unification and the Transformation of German-Polish Relations
J.Murphy
The Counterrevolution in Soviet Foreign Policy and the End of the Cold War
R.Snyder&
T.White
'Seventh of November' from Berliner Ensemble
D.Cowie
'There was no Time for Shame': The Politics of Shame and the State
D.Elam
The 'Wall in the Mind' and Nostalgia for Separation in Reunified Germany
P.Kubicek
Specters of Work: Literature and Labor in Post-Socialist Germany
H.Bivens
A New Era, or a Lost Wager?
B.Robinson
After the Fall of the Wall: German Visual Culture in the New Europe
A.Dempsey
History in Context: The Spreebogen and Das Haus Am Werderschen Markt in the Context of the Architectural Debates
C.A.Costabile Heming
Architectural Polemics from Berlin to Beijing
D.Purdy
Berlin Wall Installations in the United States
R.Schade