Foreword: Interdisciplinarity or cultural studies / Russell A. Berman
Introduction / Ruth A. Starkman
PART I. INTELLECTUALS AND GERMAN HISTORY
Intellectuals, the "Third Way," and German unification / Brett R. Wheeler
The rebirth of tragedy: Syberberg, Strauss, and German identity / Stephen Brockmann
Fear and loathing after 9/11: German intellectuals and the America-debate / Klaus R. Scherpe
"Are the towers still standing?" September 11 and the resurrection of the literary intellectual / Alison Lewis
PART II. MATERIAL CULTURE EAST AND WEST
Born in the "Bakschischrepuglick": anthems of the late GDR / Patricia Anne Simpson
Spies, shell games, and bananas: everyday symbols and metaphors in the process of cultural integration of East and West Germany / Gottfried Korff
Club Cola and Co.: Ostalgie, material culture and identity / Martin Blum
PART III. GERMANY AND ITS MINORITIES
Aussiedler and Ausländer: transforming German national identity / Nora Räthzel
Germany's coming out: citizenship and immigration reform since unification / Hermann Kurthen
(Re)constructing community in Berlin: Turks, Jews, and German responsibility / Jonathan Lawrence
Perpetual impossibility? Normalization of German-Jewish relations in the Berlin Republic / Ruth A. Starkman