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The book explores how recent German novels and films depict plants and landscapes, highlighting their role in revealing contemporary issues such as racism, nationalism, and social and ecological injustices. Through these portrayals, it examines the intricate relationship between nature and society, providing insight into how literature and cinema reflect and critique pressing societal challenges.

"Accounts of how Germany has changed since unification often portray the Berlin Republic as a new Germany that has left the Nazi past and Cold War division behind and entered the new millennium as a peaceful, worldly, and cautiously proud nation. Closer inspection, however, reveals tensions between such views and the realities of a country that continues to struggle with racism, provincialism and fear of the perceived Other. Mainstream media foster such fears by describing violence in ghetto schools, failed integration, and the loss of society's core values. The city emerges as a key site not only of ethnic and political tension but of social change."--Book cover