Writing The New Berlin »

A study of the "patchwork imaginary" that is postwall Berlin fiction and its significance for the new Germany.

Introduction Newness and Its Discontents: Berlin Literature in the 1990s and Beyond 1

1 Erotic Sites: Sexual Topographies after the Wall 24

2 Bodies and Borders: The Monsters of Berlin 52

3 Multicultural Germans and Jews of Many Cultures: Imagining "Jewish Berlin" 77

4 Goodbye to East Berlin 109

5 Looking for Perspectives: The Construction at Potsdamer Platz 141

Conclusion 170

Bibliography 177

Index 199