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Germany And The Imagined East
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Author : Lee M. Roberts
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2009-01-14
Germany And The Imagined East written by Lee M. Roberts and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-01-14 with Political Science categories.
German-speaking Europe is an array of images that have emerged from varied discourses about itself and its neighbors, and “Germany and the Imagined East” revolves around the exchange of views on and in the vast construct called “the East.” The world has been divided conceptually in countless ways, but the works in this volume treat aspects of Germany as both part of and also separate from any perception of an eastern border. From the former German Democratic Republic,“East Germany,” to Österreich—whose name loses its eastern association in the English version, Austria,—the East begins within the very world of the German language. But it is also the expanse off to the right of Germany, within which essays in this collection treat such political and cultural distinctions as former Yugoslavia, Romania and Russia in Eastern Europe, or Turkey and Persia in the Near East, spreading through India to China and Japan in the Far East. With a variety of perspectives on literature, film, philosophy, architecture, music and history, these essays comprise a multidisciplinary collage that invites scholars from all departments to explore the wealth of insights German Studies has to offer on East-West relations.
The Imperialist Imagination
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Author : Sara Friedrichsmeyer
language : en
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Release Date : 1998
The Imperialist Imagination written by Sara Friedrichsmeyer and has been published by University of Michigan Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Arts, German categories.
The first anthology of essays to address colonial and postcolonial issues in German history, culture, and literature
Imagining Germany Imagining Asia
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Author : Veronika Fuechtner
language : en
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Release Date : 2013
Imagining Germany Imagining Asia written by Veronika Fuechtner and has been published by Boydell & Brewer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with History categories.
This collection of new essays explores how Germany's imagined Asia informed its national fantasies at crucial historical junctures. It will influence future scholarly explorations of Asian-German cultural transfer. The first collection of essays in the new field of Asian-German Studies, Imagining Germany Imagining Asia demonstrates that Germany and Asia have always shared cultural spaces. Indeed, since the time of the German Enlightenment, Asia served as the foil for fantasies of sexuality, escape, danger, competition, and racial and spiritual purity that were central to foundational ideas of a cohesive German national culture during crucial historical junctures such as fascism or reunification. By exploring the complex and varied phenomenon of German "Orientalism," these essays argue that the relation between an imagined Germany and an imagined Asia defies the idea of a one-way influence, instead conceiving of their cultural transfers and synergies as multidirectional and mutually perpetuating. Examining literary and non-literary texts from the eighteenth century to the present, these essays cover a wide rangeof topics and genres in disciplines including philosophy, film and visual culture, theater, literary studies, and the history of science. Ideally positioned to shape further contributions, Imagining Germany Imagining Asiawill attract a wide range of readers interested in German, Asian, colonial, postcolonial, and transnational studies. Contributors: Sai Bhatawadekar, Petra Fachinger, Veronika Fuechtner, Randall Halle, David D. Kim, Hoi-eun Kim, Kamakshi Murti, Perry Myers, Mary Rhiel, Qinna Shen, Quinn Slobodian, Chunjie Zhang Veronika Fuechtner is Associate Professor of German at Dartmouth College. Mary Rhiel is Associate Professor of German at the University of New Hampshire.
German Orientalisms
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Author : Todd Curtis Kontje
language : en
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Release Date : 2004
German Orientalisms written by Todd Curtis Kontje and has been published by University of Michigan Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Exoticism in literature categories.
A fresh examination of the role of the East in the German literary imagination, ranging from the Middle Ages to the present
The German Myth Of The East
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Author : Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2010-12-09
The German Myth Of The East written by Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-12-09 with History categories.
Over the last two centuries and indeed up to the present day, Eastern Europe's lands and peoples have conjured up a complex mixture of fascination, anxiety, promise, and peril for Germans looking eastwards. Across the generations, a varied cast of German writers, artists, philosophers, diplomats, political leaders, generals, and Nazi racial fanatics have imagined (often in very different ways) a special German mission in the East, forging a frontier myth that paralleled the American myths of the 'Wild West' and 'Manifest Destiny'. Through close analysis of German views of the East from 1800 to our own times, The German Myth of the East reveals that this crucial international relationship has in fact been integral to how Germans have defined (and repeatedly redefined) themselves and their own national identity. In particular, what was ultimately at stake for Germans was their own uncertain position in Europe, between East and West. Paradoxically, the East came to be viewed as both an attractive land of unlimited potential for the future and as a place undeveloped, dangerous, wild, dirty, and uncultured. Running the gamut from the messages of international understanding announced by generations of German scholars and sympathetic writers, to the violent racial utopia envisaged by the Nazis, German imaginings of the East represent a crucial, yet unfamiliar, part of modern European history, and one that remains fundamentally important today in the context of an expanded European Union.
The German Student Movement And The Literary Imagination
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Author : Susanne Rinner
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2013-02-01
The German Student Movement And The Literary Imagination written by Susanne Rinner and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-02-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
Through a close reading of novels by Ulrike Kolb, Irmtraud Morgner, Emine Sevgi Özdamar, Bernhard Schlink, Peter Schneider, and Uwe Timm, this book traces the cultural memory of the 1960s student movement in German fiction, revealing layers of remembering and forgetting that go beyond conventional boundaries of time and space. These novels engage this contestation by constructing a palimpsest of memories that reshape readers’ understanding of the 1960s with respect to the end of the Cold War, the legacy of the Third Reich, and the Holocaust. Topographically, these novels refute assertions that East Germans were isolated from the political upheaval that took place in the late 1960s and 1970s. Through their aesthetic appropriations and subversions, these multicultural contributions challenge conventional understandings of German identity and at the same time lay down claims of belonging within a German society that is more openly diverse than ever before.
Edinburgh German Yearbook 15
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Author : Jenny Watson
language : en
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Release Date : 2022-09-20
Edinburgh German Yearbook 15 written by Jenny Watson and has been published by Boydell & Brewer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-09-20 with categories.
Reconsidering the German tendency to define itself vis-à-vis an eastern Other in light of fresh debate regarding the Second World War, this volume and the cultural products it considers expose and question Germany's relationship with its imagined East.
Legal Tender
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Author : John Griffith Urang
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2010
Legal Tender written by John Griffith Urang and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with German fiction categories.
Through close readings of a diverse selection of films and novels from the former GDR, Urang offers an eye-opening account of the ideological stakes of love stories in East German culture.
The Human Rights Dictatorship
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Author : Ned Richardson-Little
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2020-04-23
The Human Rights Dictatorship written by Ned Richardson-Little and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-04-23 with History categories.
Richardson-Little exposes the forgotten history of human rights in the German Democratic Republic, placing the history of the Cold War, Eastern European dissidents and the revolutions of 1989 in a new light. By demonstrating how even a communist dictatorship could imagine itself to be a champion of human rights, this book challenges popular narratives on the fall of the Berlin Wall and illustrates how notions of human rights evolved in the Cold War as they were re-imagined in East Germany by both dissidents and state officials. Ultimately, the fight for human rights in East Germany was part of a global battle in the post-war era over competing conceptions of what human rights meant. Nonetheless, the collapse of dictatorship in East Germany did not end this conflict, as citizens had to choose for themselves what kind of human rights would follow in its wake.
Socialism And The Literary Imagination
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Author : Martin Kane
language : en
Publisher: Berg Publishers
Release Date : 1991-10-15
Socialism And The Literary Imagination written by Martin Kane and has been published by Berg Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991-10-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
The literary and artistic qualities of East German writing are all too often overlooked in the debate about censorship, cultural control and dissident writers. Each contributor focuses on a particular East German writer and explains why the work of their chosen author deserves to be considered alongside the best in contemporary European literature.
