"This volume makes abundantly clear the fact that the cultural unification of Germany . . . is as arduous and painful as the political/economic merger . . . An excellent collection, well-conceived and highly informative." - Choice With the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989, four decades of separation seemed to have been brought to an end. In the literary arena as in many others, this seemed to be the surprising but ultimately logical end to the situation in which, after the extreme separation of the two Germanies' literatures during most of the period up to 1980, an increasing...