%0 Journal Article
%T ¡°They looked German, albeit with even tighter pants and uglier shoes, but there was something different about them¡±: The Function of East and West Germany and the Fall of the Berlin Wall in Paul Beatty¡¯s Slumberland
%A Schweinfurth
%A Elisa
%J COPAS : Current Objectives of Postgraduate American Studies
%D 2010
%I University of Regensburg
%X The essay examines Paul Beatty¡¯s novel Slumberland (2008) as representative for a still neglected field of American literary expression: American literary representations of Germany after 1989 which address issues of Germany¡¯s former division into East and West, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and German reunification. It argues that the function of the German setting is not used to affirm a U.S. American identity through the othering of Germany but that it critically addresses controversial issues in the United States through the use of displacement.
%U http://copas.uni-regensburg.de/article/view/123/147