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This volume consists of a series of essays, written by leading scholars within the field, demonstrating the types of inquiry that can be pursued into the transnational realities underpinning German-language culture and history as these travel right around the globe. Contributions discuss the inherent cross-pollination of different languages, times, places and notions of identity within German-language cultures and the ways in which their construction and circulation cannot be contained by national or linguistic borders. In doing so, it is not the aim of the volume to provide a compendium of existing transnational approaches to German Studies or to offer its readers a series of survey chapters on different fields of study to date. Instead, it offers novel research-led chapters that pose a question, a problem or an issue through which contemporary and historical transcultural and transnational processes can be seen at work. Accordingly, each essay isolates a specific area of study and opens it up for exploration, providing readers, especially student readers, not just with examples of transnational phenomena in German language cultures but also with models of how research in these areas can be configured and pursued. Contributors: Angus Nicholls, Anne Fuchs, Benedict Schofield, Birgit Lang, Charlotte Ryland, Claire Baldwin, Dirk Weissmann, Elizabeth Anderson, James Hodkinson, Nicholas Baer, Paulo Soethe, Rebecca Braun, Sara Jones, Sebastian Heiduschke, Stuart Taberner and Ulrike Draesner.

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‘Transnational German Studies offers a compelling contribution to the field of German Studies, offering both a clear account of its current identity in historical context and, crucially, a timely challenge to rethink the traditional boundaries of the discipline.’
Janet Stewart, Durham University
‘This volume is a timely and important intervention in the field of German Studies. At a time when German Studies is perceived to be in crisis, with declining student numbers and the shrinking of university departments, it convincingly demonstrates how transnational perspectives offer to expand the discipline by imbuing it with critical new questions, and by encouraging reflection not only on what German Studies is today, but where it has come from, and where it may productively head.’
Anna Saunders, University of Liverpool

Table of Contents
Introduction
Transnationalizing German Studies
Rebecca Braun and Benedict Schofield

Section One
Language: Local and Global Voices
1. Translation, Transposition, Transmission: Low German and Processes of Cultural Transformation
Elizabeth Anderson
2. Developing a Polyglot Poetics: The Power of Testimony and Lived Literary Experience
Ulrike Draesner
3. German Writers from Abroad: Translingualism, Hybrid Languages, ‘Broken’ Germans
Dirk Weissmann
4. Collaboration and Commitment: German-Language Books Across Borders
Charlotte Ryland

Section Two
Spatiality: Mapping Nations, Mapping Networks
5. Networks and World Literature: The Practice of Putting German Authors in their Place
Rebecca Braun
6. Who is German? Nineteenth-Century Transnationalisms and the Construction of the Nation
Benedict Schofield
7. Co-Producing World Cinema: Germany and Transnational Film Production
Sebastian Heiduschke
8. Towards a Collaborative Memory: Networks and Relationality in German Memory Cultures
Sara Jones

Section Three
Temporality: Experiences of Time
9. It’s About Time: The Temporality of Transnational Studies
Anne Fuchs
10. Transnationalizing Faith: Re-imagining Islam in German Culture
James Hodkinson
11. Transnational Imaginaries: Place of Palestine in Gershom Scholem, Franz Kafka, and Early Cinema
Nicholas Baer
12. Securing the Archive: On the Transience of (Latin) American German Identities
Paulo Soethe

Section Four
Subjectivity: Ideology and the Individual
13. Radical Germans and Their Anglophone Interpreters: Exploring and Translating ‘The Unconscious’ and Psychoanalysis
Angus Nicholls
14. Patterns of Global Exile: Exploring Identity through Art
Birgit Lang
15. Representative Germans: Navid Kermani and the German Literary Tradition of Critical Cosmopolitanism
Claire Baldwin
16. Contrite Germans?
Stuart Taberner

Index

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      Publisher: Liverpool University Press
      Publication Date: 17/07/2020
      ISBN13: 9781789621426, 978-1789621426
      ISBN10: 1789621429
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This volume consists of a series of essays, written by leading scholars within the field, demonstrating the types of inquiry that can be pursued into the transnational realities underpinning German-language culture and history as these travel right around the globe. Contributions discuss the inherent cross-pollination of different languages, times, places and notions of identity within German-language cultures and the ways in which their construction and circulation cannot be contained by national or linguistic borders. In doing so, it is not the aim of the volume to provide a compendium of existing transnational approaches to German Studies or to offer its readers a series of survey chapters on different fields of study to date. Instead, it offers novel research-led chapters that pose a question, a problem or an issue through which contemporary and historical transcultural and transnational processes can be seen at work. Accordingly, each essay isolates a specific area of study and opens it up for exploration, providing readers, especially student readers, not just with examples of transnational phenomena in German language cultures but also with models of how research in these areas can be configured and pursued. Contributors: Angus Nicholls, Anne Fuchs, Benedict Schofield, Birgit Lang, Charlotte Ryland, Claire Baldwin, Dirk Weissmann, Elizabeth Anderson, James Hodkinson, Nicholas Baer, Paulo Soethe, Rebecca Braun, Sara Jones, Sebastian Heiduschke, Stuart Taberner and Ulrike Draesner.

      Trade Review
      ‘Transnational German Studies offers a compelling contribution to the field of German Studies, offering both a clear account of its current identity in historical context and, crucially, a timely challenge to rethink the traditional boundaries of the discipline.’
      Janet Stewart, Durham University
      ‘This volume is a timely and important intervention in the field of German Studies. At a time when German Studies is perceived to be in crisis, with declining student numbers and the shrinking of university departments, it convincingly demonstrates how transnational perspectives offer to expand the discipline by imbuing it with critical new questions, and by encouraging reflection not only on what German Studies is today, but where it has come from, and where it may productively head.’
      Anna Saunders, University of Liverpool

      Table of Contents
      Introduction
      Transnationalizing German Studies
      Rebecca Braun and Benedict Schofield

      Section One
      Language: Local and Global Voices
      1. Translation, Transposition, Transmission: Low German and Processes of Cultural Transformation
      Elizabeth Anderson
      2. Developing a Polyglot Poetics: The Power of Testimony and Lived Literary Experience
      Ulrike Draesner
      3. German Writers from Abroad: Translingualism, Hybrid Languages, ‘Broken’ Germans
      Dirk Weissmann
      4. Collaboration and Commitment: German-Language Books Across Borders
      Charlotte Ryland

      Section Two
      Spatiality: Mapping Nations, Mapping Networks
      5. Networks and World Literature: The Practice of Putting German Authors in their Place
      Rebecca Braun
      6. Who is German? Nineteenth-Century Transnationalisms and the Construction of the Nation
      Benedict Schofield
      7. Co-Producing World Cinema: Germany and Transnational Film Production
      Sebastian Heiduschke
      8. Towards a Collaborative Memory: Networks and Relationality in German Memory Cultures
      Sara Jones

      Section Three
      Temporality: Experiences of Time
      9. It’s About Time: The Temporality of Transnational Studies
      Anne Fuchs
      10. Transnationalizing Faith: Re-imagining Islam in German Culture
      James Hodkinson
      11. Transnational Imaginaries: Place of Palestine in Gershom Scholem, Franz Kafka, and Early Cinema
      Nicholas Baer
      12. Securing the Archive: On the Transience of (Latin) American German Identities
      Paulo Soethe

      Section Four
      Subjectivity: Ideology and the Individual
      13. Radical Germans and Their Anglophone Interpreters: Exploring and Translating ‘The Unconscious’ and Psychoanalysis
      Angus Nicholls
      14. Patterns of Global Exile: Exploring Identity through Art
      Birgit Lang
      15. Representative Germans: Navid Kermani and the German Literary Tradition of Critical Cosmopolitanism
      Claire Baldwin
      16. Contrite Germans?
      Stuart Taberner

      Index

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