UID:
almahu_9949361302302882
Format:
1 online resource (320 pages).
Edition:
First edition.
ISBN:
9781501375934
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9781501375910
Series Statement:
New Directions in German Studies.
Content:
"The nation-state is a European invention of the 18th and 19th centuries. In the case of the German nation in particular, this invention was tied closely to the idea of a homogeneous German culture with a strong normative function. As a consequence, histories of German culture and literature often are told from the inside - as the unfolding of a canon of works representing certain core values, with which every person who considers him or herself "German" necessarily must identify. But what happens if we describe German culture and its history from the outside? And as something heterogeneous, shaped by multiple and diverse sources, many of which are not obviously connected to things traditionally considered "German" Emphasizing current issues of migration, displacement, systemic injustice, and belonging, the essays in this volume explore new opportunities for understanding and shaping community at a time when many are questioning the ability of cultural practices to effect structural change. Located at the nexus of cultural, political, historiographical, and philosophical discourses, this volume will inform discussions about next directions for German Studies and for the Humanities in a fraught era. "--
Note:
I: Reading German Cultural History Differently Finding Odysseus's Scars Again: Hyperlinked Literary Histories in the Age of Refugees B. Venkat Mani, University of Wisconsin-Madison Cosmopolitanism and the Tensions of Enlightenment Birgit Tautz, Bowdoin College Romanticism from the Outside Laurie Johnson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Writing a Way out from the Inside: Hofmannsthal and Kafka David Kim, University of California-Los Angeles Michael Goes to Hollywood: Haneke, American Film, and German History Imke Meyer, University of Illinois-Chicago II: Stories of Expulsion, Exile, and Displacement Looking for Heinrich Heine with E.S. âizdamar and Co. Azade Seyhan, Bryn Mawr College Between Times and Places: German Identity in Albert Vigoleis Thelen's Refugee Memoirs from Spain and Portugal (31 August - 1 September 1939) Carl Niekerk, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Writing Germany with Brazil: Julia Mann's Memoirs Veronika Fèuchtner, Dartmouth College Viennese Holocaust Refugees, American Humanitarians, and the Midwest Bettina Brandt, Pennsylvania State University Resistance and Identity in Hans Keilson's Writing Anna Parkinson, Northwestern University III: Rewriting German Culture Democratic Re-Education: Hermann Broch's Reflections on Postwar Germany Paul Michael Lèutzeler, Washington University - St. Louis Tracing the Continual Present: Yoko Tawada and Vilèm Flusser Gizem Arslan, Southern Methodist University Mobilizing the Archive: Marica Bodrozic and Deniz Utl's Unterhaltungen deutscher Eingewanderten Claudia Breger, Columbia University New Orientalist Media Berna Gueneli, University of Georgia The Collector of Worlds : Travel Writing, Colonialism, and History in Ilija Trojanow's Work Chunjie Zhang, University of California-Davis Of Corpses and Clowns: The (New) Materiality of Politics in the Exile Ensemble's Die Hamletmaschine Olivia Landry, Lehigh University
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Additional Edition:
Print version: ISBN 9781501375897
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
DOI:
10.5040/9781501375934
URL:
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