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Cultural Studies have been preoccupied with questions of national identity and cultural representations. At the same time, feminist studies have insisted upon the entanglement of gender with issues of nation, class, and ethnicity. Developments in the wake of German unification demand a reassessment of the nexus of gender, Germanness and nationhood. The contributors to this volume pursue these strands of the cultural debate in German history, literature, visual arts, and language over a period of three hundred years in sections devoted to History and the Canon, Visual Culture, Germany and Her "Others," and Language and Power.
Contributors: L. Adelson, A. Taylor Allen, K. Bauer, R. Berman, B. Byg, M. Denman, E. Frederiksen, S. Friedrichsmeyer, E. Kaufmann, L. Koepnick, B. Kosta, S. Lefko, A. M.O'Sickey, B. Mennel, H. M. Müller, B. Peterson, L. Pusch, D. Sweet, H. Watt, S. Zantop.
Sommario
Introduction: Looking for Germania
PART I: EIGHTEENTH AND NINETEENTH CENTURY Chapter 1. The Beautiful, the Ugly, and the German: Race, Gender and Nationality in Eighteenth-Century Anthropological Discourse
Susanne Zantop Chapter 2. Sophie La Roche as a German Patriot
Helga S. Watt Chapter 3. Romantic Nationalism: Achim von Arnim's Gypsy Princess Isabella
Sara Friedrichsmeyer Chapter 4. How to Think about Germany: Nationality, Gender, and Obsession in Heine's "Night Thoughts"
Russell A. Berman Chapter 5. The Fatherland's Kiss of Death: Gender and Germany in Nineteenth-Century Historical Fiction
Brent O. Peterson PART II: RETHINKING HISTORY AND CANONS Chapter 6. The Challenge of "Missing Contents" for Canon Formation in German Studies
Elke Frederiksen Chapter 7. Feminism and Motherhood in Germany and in International Perspective 1800-1914
Ann Taylor Allen Chapter 8. "Truly Womanly" and "Truly German": Women's Rights and National Identity in
Die Frau Stefana Lefko Chapter 9. The Ladies' Auxiliary of German Literature: Nineteenth-Century Women Writers and the Quest for a National Literary History
Patricia Herminghouse PART III: VISUAL CULTURE Chapter 10. En-Gendering Mass Culture: The Case of Zarah Leander
Lutz P. Koepnick Chapter 11. Nazism as Femme Fatale: Recuperations of Cinematic Masculinity in Postwar Berlin
Barton Byg Chapter 12. Visualizing the Nation: Madonnas and Mourning Mothers in Postwar Germany
Mariatte C. Denman Chapter 13. Framing the
Unheimlich: Heimatfilm and Bambi
Ingeborg Majer O'Sickey Chapter 14. Rape, Nation, and Remembering History: Helke Sander's
Liberators Take Liberties Barbara Kosta PART IV: GERMANY AND HER "OTHERS" Chapter 15. "Germany is Full of Germans Now": Germanness in Ama Ata Aidoo's
Our Sister Killjoy and Chantal
Ackerman's
Meetings with Anna Barbara Mennel Chapter 16. Bodies for Germany, Bodies for Socialism: The German Democratic Republic Devises a Gay (Male) Body
Denis Sweet Chapter 17. Patterns of Consciousness and Cycles of Self-Destruction: Nation, Ethnicity, and Gender in Herta Müller's Prose
Karin Bauer Chapter 18. Germania Displaced? Reflections on the Discourses of Female Asylum Seekers and Ethnic Germans
Magda Mueller Chapter 19. GERMANIA - Just a Male Construction? Gender, Germanness, and Feminism in East German Women
Writers
Eva Kaufmann Chapter 20. The Price of Feminism: Of Women and Turks
Leslie Adelson PART V: FATHERLAND AND MOTHER TONGUE Chapter 21. Language is Publicity for Men - but enough is enough!
Luise Pusch Chapter 22. The New
Duden: Out of Date Already?
Luise Pusch Contributors
Index
Info autore
Magda Mueller in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at California State University, Chico.
Riassunto
Cultural Studies have been preoccupied with questions of national identity and cultural representations. At the same time, feminist studies have insisted upon the entanglement of gender with issues of nation, class, and ethnicity. Developments in the wake of German unification demand a reassessment of the nexus of gender, Germanness and nationhood. The contributors to this volume pursue these strands of the cultural debate in German history, literature, visual arts, and language over a period of three hundred years in sections devoted to History and the Canon, Visual Culture, Germany and Her "Others," and Language and Power.
Contributors: L. Adelson, A. Taylor Allen, K. Bauer, R. Berman, B. Byg, M. Denman, E. Frederiksen, S. Friedrichsmeyer, E. Kaufmann, L. Koepnick, B. Kosta, S. Lefko, A. M.O'Sickey, B. Mennel, H. M. Müller, B. Peterson, L. Pusch, D. Sweet, H. Watt, S. Zantop.
Testo aggiuntivo
"This fascinating and informative collection of twenty-two mostly original essays showcases feminist German Studies at its finest ... Decentering Germany in our own scholarly work will help us to further challenge the settled definitions of gender and Germanness which this volume so splendidly details." ����Women in German
