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German economic crises from the past two hundred years have provoked diverse responses from journalists, politicians, scholars, and fiction writers. Among their responses, storylines have developed as proposals for reducing unemployment, improving workplace conditions, and increasing profitability when stock markets tumble, accompanied by inflation, deflation, and overwhelming debt. The contributors to Invested Narratives assess German-language economic crisis narratives from the interdisciplinary perspectives of finance, economics, political science, sociology, history, literature, and cultural studies. They interpret the ways German society has tried to comprehend, recover from, and avoid economic crises and in doing so widen our understanding of German economic debates and their influence on German society and the European Union.

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Author:   Jill E. Twark
Publisher:   Berghahn Books
Imprint:   Berghahn Books
ISBN:  

9781800736931

ISBN 10:   1800736932
Pages:   270
Publication Date:   11 November 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Introduction: Narrating Economics as Crisis Jill E. Twark Part I: Shaping Economic Knowledge from Historical Perspectives Chapter 1. German Finanzkapitalismus: A Narrative of Deutsche Bank and its Role in the German Financial System Reinhard H Schmidt Chapter 2. Narrative Confrontations with Socioeconomic Crisis: Ideas for Building Community in the Mid-Nineteenth-Century German Social Novel Johannes Brambora Chapter 3. Economic Knowledge and the Failure to Alleviate the Great Depression in Weimar Germany Roman Koester Chapter 4. The Moral Equation Works Out Differently: The Great Depression, the Crisis of Knowledge, and Value Order in Erich Kastner's Fabian: The Story of a Moralist Simela Delianidou Part II: German Narratives of Work and Unemployment Chapter 5. Unemployment as Crisis: Past and Present German-Language Sociological Narratives on the Loss of Work Annemarie Matthies Chapter 6. Cruel Optimism as Plot Driver in German and Austrian Economic Crisis Novels with Adult and Child Protagonists Thrust into Poverty Jill E. Twark Chapter 7. John von Duffel's Ego (2001) as a Seismographic Recorder of the Neoliberal Crisis of the Self Johanna Toensing Part III: German 'Exceptionalism' in Contemporary European Crisis Situations Chapter 8. Germany's Compromises: The Impact of Crisis Narratives on the European Central Bank and Euro Governance Sara Konoe Chapter 9. Housing Crises and the Crisis of Housing: German Experiences with Neoliberal Reforms Paulette Kurzer and Alice H. Cooper Part IV: The Tricky Question of Cause and Effect Chapter 10. Literature against the 'Profit-Friendly Ideological Defense System':Entertainment and Sociopolitical Enlightenment in Uwe Timm's Headhunter Monika Albrecht Chapter 11. An Imaginary of Blame: The Representation of Crisis, the Crisis of Representation and Jonas Luscher's Barbarian Spring Joel Kaipainen

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Jill E. Twark is Associate Professor of German at East Carolina University. Her research focuses on contemporary German literature and culture. Along with her monograph, Humor, Satire, and Identity: Eastern German Literature in the 1990s (De Gruyter 2007), she has edited books on post-unification German humor and social-justice dilemmas.

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