{"product_id":"germany-from-the-outside-9781501375903","title":"Germany from the Outside","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe nation-state is a European invention of the 18th and 19th centuries. In the case of the German nation in particular, this invention was tied closely to the idea of a homogeneous German culture with a strong normative function. As a consequence, histories of German culture and literature often are told from the insideas the unfolding of a canon of works representing certain core values, with which every person who considers him or herself German necessarily must identify. But what happens if we describe German culture and its history from the outside? And as something heterogeneous, shaped by multiple and diverse sources, many of which are not obviously connected to things traditionally considered German?  Emphasizing current issues of migration, displacement, systemic injustice, and belonging,\u003ci\u003e Germany from the Outside\u003c\/i\u003e explores new opportunities for understanding and shaping community at a time when many are questioning the ability of cultural practices to effect structural c\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGermany from the Outside\u003c\/i\u003e is a significant contribution to interdisciplinary German Studies that owes its inspiration to new approaches in postcolonial and migration studies. With its emphasis on stories of expulsion, exile, and displacement from Goethe to Heine, from Brecht to Yoko Tawada, and from Heiner Müller to Özdamar, and with essays written by leading scholars, it will have a lasting impact on international \u003ci\u003eGermanistik\u003c\/i\u003e. * Paul Michael Lützeler, Rosa May Distinguished University Professor in the Humanities and Director of the Max Kade Center for Contemporary German Literature, Washington University, St. Louis, USA *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGermany from the Outside \u003c\/i\u003eforces us to question why teaching and research in German Studies continue to be haunted by the legacies of racial and ethnic nationalism, empire, monolingualism, and one-dimensional notions of mobility and exchange. This volume provides a much-needed critical vocabulary for analyzing what has been perhaps evident yet underappreciated all along: novelists, philosophers, dramatists, and filmmakers have been grappling with complex identifications, leading lives shaped by displacement, fighting against exclusion, and resisting a stable notion of Germanness. The contributors thus illuminate the diversity and plurality that emerges when we look at German cultural production from multiple positions. * Vance Byrd, Presidential Associate Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures, University of Pennsylvania, USA *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNotes on Contributors\u003c\/i\u003e  Introduction  \u003ci\u003eLaurie Ruth Johnson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cb\u003eI:  Reading German Cultural History Differently\u003c\/b\u003e   1. Finding Odysseus’s Scars Again: Hyperlinked Literary Histories in the Age of Refugees \u003ci\u003eB. Venkat Mani, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA \u003c\/i\u003e  2. Between the Court and the Port, but never Part of a Nation: Friederike Brun’s Domesticated Cosmopolitanism \u003ci\u003eBirgit Tautz, Bowdoin College, USA\u003c\/i\u003e  3. On the Inside Looking Out: Fichte, the University, and the Psychopolitics of German Idealism \u003ci\u003eLaurie Ruth Johnson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA\u003c\/i\u003e   4. Rewriting German Literary History from the Outside in: J.M. Coetzee’s \u003ci\u003eElizabeth Costello\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eDavid Kim, University of California-Los Angeles, USA\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cb\u003eII:  Stories of Expulsion, Exile, and Displacement\u003c\/b\u003e  5. Looking for Heinrich Heine with Nâzim Hikmet and E.S. Özdamar \u003ci\u003eAzade Seyhan, Bryn Mawr College, USA\u003c\/i\u003e  6. Between Times and Places: German Identity in Albert Vigoleis Thelen’s Refugee Memoirs from Spain and Portugal (31 August – 1 September 1939) \u003ci\u003eCarl Niekerk, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA\u003c\/i\u003e   7. Writing Germany with Brazil: Julia Mann’s Memoirs  \u003ci\u003eVeronika Füchtner, Dartmouth College, USA \u003c\/i\u003e 8. From Vienna to the Midwest: Austrian Refugees and Quaker Rescue Efforts after 1938 \u003ci\u003eBettina Brandt, Pennsylvania State University, USA\u003c\/i\u003e  9. Keeping Time: Trauma as Intimate Alienation in Hans Keilson’s Writing \u003ci\u003eAnna M. Parkinson, Northwestern University, USA\u003c\/i\u003e    \u003cb\u003eIII:  Rewriting German Culture\u003c\/b\u003e   10. Tracing the Continual Present: Yoko Tawada and Vilém Flusser \u003ci\u003eGizem Arslan, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA\u003c\/i\u003e   11. Mobilizing the Archive: Marica Bodrozic and Deniz Utl’s \u003ci\u003eUnterhaltungen deutscher Eingewanderten\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eClaudia Breger, Columbia University, USA \u003c\/i\u003e  12. Constructing an “Inside”: Transcultural Laughter Communities in Fatma Aydemir’s \u003ci\u003eEllbogen \u003c\/i\u003e(2017) and Olga Grjasnowa’s \u003ci\u003eDer Russe ist einer, der Birken liebt \u003c\/i\u003e(2012) \u003ci\u003eLucas Riddle, Bowdoin College, USA\u003c\/i\u003e  13. Screening Urban Space and Belonging in Berlin: Contemporary Berliners in Sheri Hagen’s \u003ci\u003eAuf den zweiten Blick\/At Second Glance \u003c\/i\u003e(2013), Ines Johnson-Spain’s \u003ci\u003eBecoming Black \u003c\/i\u003e(2019), and Amelia Umuhire’s \u003ci\u003ePolyglot \u003c\/i\u003e(2015) \u003ci\u003eBerna Gueneli, University of Georgia, USA\u003c\/i\u003e  14. Bertolt Brecht’s \u003ci\u003eMe-ti \u003c\/i\u003eor the Aesthetics of Translation: Universal Love, Mutual Benefits, and Transience \u003ci\u003eChunjie Zhang, University of California-Davis, USA\u003c\/i\u003e  15. Clowns in Exile: \u003ci\u003eHamletmaschine \u003c\/i\u003eand the (In)human \u003ci\u003eOlivia Landry, Lehigh University, USA\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003ci\u003eBibliography\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eIndex \u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing Plc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51019960156503,"sku":"9781501375903","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781501375903.jpg?v=1750781888","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/germany-from-the-outside-9781501375903","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}