Marc Silberman

Walls, Borders, Boundaries: Spatial and Cultural Practices in Europe - Spektrum: Publications of the German Studies Association Marc Silberman

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.; How is it that walls, borders, boundaries - and their material and symbolic architectures of division and exclusion - engender their very opposite? This edited volume explores the crossings, permeations, and constructions of cultural and political borders between peoples and territories, examining how walls, borders, and boundaries signify both interdependence and contact within sites of conflict and separation.

Contributor Bio:  Silberman, Marc Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) is acknowledged as one of the great dramatists whose plays, work with the Berliner Ensemble and critical writings have had a considerable influence on the theatre. His landmark plays include "The Threepenny Opera", "Fear and Misery of the Third Reich", "The Life of Galileo, " "Mother Courage and Her Children "and "The Caucasian Chalk Circle."""""Contributor Bio:  Ward, Janet Janet Ward is Associate Professor of German Studies at the University of Colorado, Boulder. She is the coeditor of "Agonistics: Arenas of Creative Contest "(1997), co-editor of the forthcoming "German Studies in the Post-Holocaust Age: The Politics of Memory, Identity, and Ethnicity "(2001) and is currently writing a book on post-Wall architecture in Berlin