Becoming Transgerman: Cultural Identity Beyond Geography

ISBN-13: 9781788744263 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 326 str.

Thomas O. Haakenson; Tirza True Latimer; Carol Hager

Opis

This book is a cutting-edge, interdisciplinary collection of essays by some of today's most forward-thinking scholars. The contributors explore the ways in which the prefix «trans» erupts German identity and the identity of Germany itself. What are the promises and perils for Germany, and German identity, in becoming transGerman?

Recenzje

«This engaging and groundbreaking book highlights how creative difference, non-stasis, and polyvalent identity - across a number of trans-Germanic medial texts and cultural contexts -might reconfigure today's reactionary world into a new revolutionary place of social and political emancipation.» (Mirko M. Hall, Professor and Chair of Languages, Cultures, and Literatures, Converse College)

Spis treści

CONTENTS: Thomas O. Haakenson: Introduction: What is «Becoming TransGerman»? - Tirza True Latimer: What Can Trans Do? - Baris Ülker: Going Beyond Spatial and Cultural Fixities Through Ernst Reuter's Photographic Encounters in Turkey - Kristen Ann Ehrenberger: Autopsy, Authority and Affect: Body Voyaging in Anatomical Fairy Tales from 1920s-1940s Germany - Josch Hoenes: Mit Schmetterlingen denken: Der transvestitische Mensch in Magnus Hirschfelds Bilderteil zur Geschlechtskunde (Thinking with Butterflies: Transvestite Humans in Magnus Hirschfelds Illustrated Volume Sexual Science) - Ute Ritz-Deutch: TransGerman Experiences in Southern Brazil: The Stutzer Family in Blumenau, 1885-1887 - Thomas O. Haakenson: Transnational Dada and the Politics of Postcolonialism - Nichole Neuman: The Archive and Writing (German) Film History - Mine Eren: A Ghostly Matter: Almanya: Welcome to Germany as Transnational Feminist Film Praxis - Jennifer Miller: Instructional Visions: German Visual Messages to the First Generation of Turkish Guest Workers - Anson Koch-Rein: TransGerman Drag: Travestie für Deutschland, Homonationalisms, and Transgender Citizenship - Deborah Barton/Karin Goihl/Thomas O. Haakenson/Carol Hager/Tirza True Latimer: Berlin Workshop 5th Anniversary Discussion: Why «Becoming TransGerman» Matters Now More Than Ever.

O autorze

Thomas O. Haakenson is Associate Professor in both the Visual Studies Program and the Critical Studies Program at California College of the Arts. His books include Representations of German Identity (co-edited with Deborah Ascher Barnstone); Spectacle (co-edited with Jennifer L. Creech), and Jürgen Habermas and the European Economic Crisis: Cosmopolitanism Reconsidered (co-edited with Gaspare M. Genna and Ian W. Wilson). He has authored essays for New German Critique, Cabinet, Rutgers Art Review, German Studies Review and the anthologies Legacies of Modernism as well as Memorialization in Germany Since 1945.