Ghetto Voices in Contemporary German Culture: Textscapes, Filmscapes, Soundscapes

by Maria Stehle

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1571135448
• ISBN13: 9781571135445
• Release Date: November 2012
• Publisher: Camden House (NY)
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 9.2" x 6.2"