Germany from the Outside: Rethinking German Cultural History in an Age of Displacement

ISBN-13: 9781501375903 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 304 str.

Laurie Ruth Johnson; Imke Meyer

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Notes on Contributors Introduction Laurie Ruth Johnson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA I: Reading German Cultural History Differently 1. Finding Odysseus’s Scars Again: Hyperlinked Literary Histories in the Age of Refugees B. Venkat Mani, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA 2. Between the Court and the Port, but never Part of a Nation: Friederike Brun’s Domesticated Cosmopolitanism Birgit Tautz, Bowdoin College, USA 3. On the Inside Looking Out: Fichte, the University, and the Psychopolitics of German Idealism Laurie Ruth Johnson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA 4. Rewriting German Literary History from the Outside in: J.M. Coetzee’s Elizabeth Costello David Kim, University of California-Los Angeles, USA II: Stories of Expulsion, Exile, and Displacement 5. Looking for Heinrich Heine with Nâzim Hikmet and E.S. Özdamar Azade Seyhan, Bryn Mawr College, USA 6. 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, USA 7. Writing Germany with Brazil: Julia Mann’s Memoirs Veronika Füchtner, Dartmouth College, USA 8. From Vienna to the Midwest: Austrian Refugees and Quaker Rescue Efforts after 1938 Bettina Brandt, Pennsylvania State University, USA 9. Keeping Time: Trauma as Intimate Alienation in Hans Keilson’s Writing Anna M. Parkinson, Northwestern University, USA III: Rewriting German Culture 10. Tracing the Continual Present: Yoko Tawada and Vilém Flusser Gizem Arslan, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA 11. Mobilizing the Archive: Marica Bodrozic and Deniz Utl’s Unterhaltungen deutscher Eingewanderten Claudia Breger, Columbia University, USA 12. Constructing an “Inside”: Transcultural Laughter Communities in Fatma Aydemir’s Ellbogen (2017) and Olga Grjasnowa’s Der Russe ist einer, der Birken liebt (2012) Lucas Riddle, Bowdoin College, USA 13. Screening Urban Space and Belonging in Berlin: Contemporary Berliners in Sheri Hagen’s Auf den zweiten Blick/At Second Glance (2013), Ines Johnson-Spain’s Becoming Black (2019), and Amelia Umuhire’s Polyglot (2015) Berna Gueneli, University of Georgia, USA 14. Bertolt Brecht’s Me-ti or the Aesthetics of Translation: Universal Love, Mutual Benefits, and Transience Chunjie Zhang, University of California-Davis, USA 15. Clowns in Exile: Hamletmaschine and the (In)human Olivia Landry, Lehigh University, USA Bibliography Index