Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature (Jan 2004)
Post-colonial Berlin? Pieke Biermann's Crime Novels as Globalization Critique
Abstract
Set in and around Tempelhof Airport, the crime novel 4,5,6 poses the question whether social, cultural, and economic "globalization" continues and aggravates colonizing practices (as scholars like Miyoshi, Chomsky, and Said have argued), or whether the term describes the social conditions of postcoloniality, beyond superpower domination and the bloc system it created...
