Edinburgh German Yearbook 14

Edinburgh German Yearbook 14 PDF Author: Frauke Matthes
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1640140840
Category : Politics and culture
Languages : en
Pages : 263

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Examines the heightened role of politics in contemporary German and Austrian cultural productions and institutions and what it means for German Studies.

Edinburgh German Yearbook 14

Edinburgh German Yearbook 14 PDF Author: Frauke Matthes
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1640140840
Category : Politics and culture
Languages : en
Pages : 263

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Book Description
Examines the heightened role of politics in contemporary German and Austrian cultural productions and institutions and what it means for German Studies.

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Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 164014191X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 511

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Masculinities in German Culture

Masculinities in German Culture PDF Author: Sarah Colvin
Publisher: Camden House
ISBN: 9781571133618
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 292

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Intended to encourage and disseminate lively and open discussion of themes pertinent to German Studies, viewed from all angles (literary, artistic, musical, theoretical) Edinburgh German Yearbook takes particular interest in cultural problems and issues arising out of politics and history. Volume 2 examines the meanings and significance of 'masculinity' in German culture, from medieval mystics to the cultural impact of young male immigrants living in Germany today.

New Literary and Linguistic Perspectives on the German Language, National Socialism, and the Shoah

New Literary and Linguistic Perspectives on the German Language, National Socialism, and the Shoah PDF Author: Peter Davies
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1571135979
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 258

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New perspectives on the relationship - or the perceived relationship - between the German language and the causes, nature, and legacy of National Socialism and the Shoah.

Heimat and Migration

Heimat and Migration PDF Author: Josef Stuart Len Cagle
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110733153
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 258

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Discourses of Heimat and of migration both negotiate questions of identity, belonging, and integration; moreover, despite the reemergence of right-wing, racist, and exclusionary uses of the term Heimat, there are in fact more recent German-language cultural texts that problematize and challenge a view of Heimat as a community that excludes the Other than there are promulgating it. This volume addresses the parallel proliferation of discourses of Heimat and of migration in contemporary German-language culture and demonstrates that the entanglement of migration and Heimat can be productive: it can help us to reframe what it means to have a home, to lose one, find one, or belong to one.

New Masculinities in Contemporary German Literature

New Masculinities in Contemporary German Literature PDF Author: Frauke Matthes
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3031103181
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 285

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The complex nexus between masculinity and national identity has long troubled, but also fascinated the German cultural imagination. This has become apparent again since the fall of the Iron Curtain and the turn of the millennium when transnational developments have noticeably shaped Germany’s self-perception as a nation. This book examines the social and political impact of transnationalism with reference to current discourses of masculinity in novels by five contemporary male German-language authors. Specifically, it analyses how conceptions of the masculine interact with those of nationality, ethnicity, and otherness in the selected texts and assesses the new masculinities that result from those interactions. Exploring how local discourses of masculinity become part of transnational contexts in contemporary writing, the book moves a consideration of masculinities from a "native" into a transnational sphere.

Cultural Responses to the Far Right in Contemporary Germany

Cultural Responses to the Far Right in Contemporary Germany PDF Author:
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004701338
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 248

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Against the backdrop of an insurgent far right and numerous deadly neo-Nazi attacks, various cultural practitioners have written far-right violence into Germany’s collective memory and imagined more inclusive futures in its wake. This volume explores contemporary examples from literature, music, theatre, film, television and art that respond to this situation. They demonstrate that, alongside the ways in which art expands the public sphere in terms of what is said and who is heard, aesthetic questions of how artistic works are presented are a crucial part of how they open up new perspectives.

The Palgrave Handbook of European Migration in Literature and Culture

The Palgrave Handbook of European Migration in Literature and Culture PDF Author: Corina Stan
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3031307844
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 660

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The Palgrave Handbook of European Migration in Literature and Culture engages with migration to, within, and from Europe, foregrounding migration through the lenses of historical migratory movement and flows associated with colonialism and postcolonialism. With essays on literature, film, drama, graphic novels, and more, the book addresses migration and media, hostile environments, migration and language, migration and literary experiment, migration as palimpsest, and figurations of the migrant. Each section is introduced by one of the handbook’s contributing editors and interviews with writers and film directors are integrated throughout the volume. The essays collected in the volume move beyond the discourse of the “refugee crisis” to trace the historical roots of the current migration situation through colonialism and decolonization.

German Text Crimes

German Text Crimes PDF Author: Tom Cheesman
Publisher: Rodopi
ISBN: 9401209499
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 253

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German Text Crimes offers new perspectives on scandals and legal actions implicating writers of German literature since the 1950s. Topics range from literary echoes of the “Heidegger Affair” to recent incitements to murder businessmen (agents of American neo-liberal power) in works by Rolf Hochhuth and others. GDR songwriters’ cat-and-mouse games with the Stasi; feminist debates on pornography, around works by Charlotte Roche and Elfriede Jelinek; controversies over anti-Semitism, around Bernhard Schlink’s Der Vorleser / The Reader and Martin Walser’s lampooning of the Jewish critic Marcel Reich-Ranicki; Peter Handke’s pro-Serbian travelogue; the disputed editing of Ingeborg Bachmann’s Nachlaß; vexed relations between dramatists and directors; (ab)uses of privacy law to ‘censor’ contemporary fiction: these are among the cases of ‘text crimes’ discussed. Not all involve codified law, but all test relations between state power, civil society, media industries and artistic license.

Violence Elsewhere 2

Violence Elsewhere 2 PDF Author: Dr Clare Bielby
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1640141375
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 273

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Examines ideas of violence in German culture after 9/11 through the lens of "violence elsewhere" - exploring works and discourses about violence in distant locations or times. Following the Nazi era, the Holocaust, and the Second World War, in postwar Germany thinking or speaking about that extreme violence seemed distinctively difficult - even perhaps, at times, impossible. Yet we can learn about understandings of violence in this period in novel ways by exploring images and constructions in German culture of faraway violence, as shown in the recent volume Violence Elsewhere 1: Imagining Distant Violence in Germany, 1945-2001. As of September 11, 2001, violence came to appear transnationally, spectacularly mobile in new ways. Consequently, Violence Elsewhere 2 explores ideas about "violence elsewhere" in German-language culture since 2001. Here, "elsewhere" can mean not only distant places; it may also be violence perceived as foreign, or in the past. Simultaneously, this work suggests that the idea of 9/11 as a watershed in thinking about violence is more complex than meets the eye. Here, nine essays consider classic literary forms like poetry and prose fiction, from the short story to the intergenerational German family novel to Black feminist speculative fiction. Contributors examine, too, philosophy, performance and multimedia art, political and other forms of public discourse, and film. Topics include, amongst others, the "war on terror," slow environmental violence, the Armenian genocide, portrayals of refugees and migrants, legacies of colonial violence, space travel, and the persistent resonance of the German past. Contributors: Sofía Forchieri, Susanne C. Knittel, Marie Kolkenbrock, Priscilla Layne, Joanne Leal, Francesca Lewis, Frauke Matthes, Lizzie Stewart, Nicola Thomas, and Kathrin Wunderlich. This book is available as Open Access under the Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-ND.