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Article: German poetry after the wall: an introduction.
- Article from:
- The Germanic Review
- Article date:
- January 1, 2002
- Author:
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The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the subsequent reunification of the two German states in 1990 did not only signify radical political changes, equally concerning Europe and the world at large. In the particular German context, these events necessitated an emphatic reassessment of the two Germanies' cultural pasts--of two virtually discrete cultural histories as they had evolved since the final ratification of Germany's division in 1949--in light of a present and future to be forged and lived as a reunited nation. The process of re-evaluation with a view to creating a heightened sense of community in the climate of a widely felt rift between Ossis and Wessis ...
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