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Nexus : essays in German Jewish studies. Volume I
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ISBN: 1571137602 1571135014 Year: 2011 Publisher: Rochester, N.Y. : Camden House,

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'Nexus' publishes innovative research in German Jewish studies and serves as a venue for introducing new directions in the field, analyzing the development and definition of the field itself, and considering the place of German Jewish studies within the disciplines of both German studies and Jewish studies.

Not so plain as Black and White : Afro-German culture and history, 1890-2000
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ISBN: 1580461832 1580463347 9786612080562 1282080563 1580466788 Year: 2005 Volume: 19 Publisher: Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press,

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Since the Middle Ages, Africans have lived in Germany as slaves and scholars, guest workers and refugees. After Germany became a unified nation in 1871, it acquired several African colonies but lost them after World War I. Children born of German mothers and African fathers during the French occupation of Germany were persecuted by the Nazis. After World War II, many children were born to African American GIs stationed in Germany and German mothers. Today there are 500,000 Afro-Germans in Germany out of a population of 80 million. Nevertheless, German society still sees them as "foreigners," assuming they are either African or African American but never German.

In recent years, the subject of Afro-Germans has captured the interest of scholars across the humanities for several reasons. Looking at Afro-Germans allows us to see another dimension of the nineteenth- and early twentieth-century ideas of race that led to the Holocaust. Furthermore, the experience of Afro-Germans provides insight into contemporary Germany's transformation, willing or not, into a multicultural society. The volume breaks new ground not only by addressing the topic of Afro-Germans but also by combining scholars from many disciplines.

Patricia Mazon is Associate Professor in the Department of History at the State University of New York at Buffalo.
Reinhild Steingrover is Assistant Professor in the Department of Humanities at the Eastman School of Music at the University of Rochester.

Zeitgeschichte im Roman: zu Thomas Manns Zauberberg und Doktor Faustus
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ISBN: 3317016299 9783317016292 Year: 1986 Volume: 6 Publisher: Bern

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German women's writing in the twenty-first century
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ISBN: 1782044868 1571135847 Year: 2015 Publisher: Rochester, New York : Camden House,

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What is the status of women's writing in German today, in an era when feminism has thoroughly problematized binary conceptions of sex and gender? Drawing on gender and queer theory, including the work of Lauren Berlant, Judith Butler, and Michel Foucault, the essays in this volume rethink conventional ways of conceptualizing female authorship and re-examine the formal, aesthetic, and thematic terms in which "women's literature" has been conceived. With an eye to the literary and feminist legacy of authors such as Christa Wolf and Ingeborg Bachmann, contributors treat the works of many of contemporary Germany's most significant literary voices, including Hatice Akyün, Sibylle Berg, Thea Dorn, Tanja Dückers, Karen Duve, Jenny Erpenbeck, Julia Franck, Katharina Hacker, Charlotte Roche, Julia Schoch, and Antje Rávic Strubel -- authors who, through their writing or their role in the media, engage with questions of what it means to be a woman writer in twenty-first-century Germany. Contributors: Hester Baer, Necia Chronister, Helga Druxes, Valerie Heffernan, Alexandra Merley Hill, Lindsey Lawton, Sheridan Marshall, Beret Norman, Mihaela Petrescu, Jill Suzanne Smith, Carrie Smith-Prei, Maria Stehle, Katherine Stone. Hester Baer is Associate Professor of Germanic Studies at the University of Maryland. Alexandra Merley Hill is Assistant Professor of German at the University of Portland.


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Sustainable Utopias : The Art and Politics of Hope in Germany.
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ISBN: 9780674276208 Year: 2022 Publisher: Cambridge : Harvard University Press,

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To reclaim a sense of hope for the future, German activists in the late twentieth century engaged ordinary citizens in innovative projects that resisted alienation and disenfranchisement. By most accounts, the twentieth century was not kind to utopian thought. The violence of two world wars, Cold War anxieties, and a widespread sense of crisis after the 1973 global oil shock appeared to doom dreams of a better world. The eventual victory of capitalism and, seemingly, liberal democracy relieved some fears but exchanged them for complacency and cynicism. Not, however, in West Germany. Jennifer Allen showcases grassroots activism of the 1980s and 1990s that envisioned a radically different society based on community-centered politics—a society in which the democratization of culture and power ameliorated alienation and resisted the impotence of end-of-history narratives. Berlin’s History Workshop liberated research from university confines by providing opportunities for ordinary people to write and debate the story of the nation. The Green Party made the politics of direct democracy central to its program. Artists changed the way people viewed and acted in public spaces by installing objects in unexpected environments, including the Stolpersteine: paving stones, embedded in residential sidewalks, bearing the names of Nazi victims. These activists went beyond just trafficking in ideas. They forged new infrastructures, spaces, and behaviors that gave everyday people real agency in their communities. Undergirding this activism was the environmentalist concept of sustainability, which demanded that any alternative to existing society be both enduring and adaptable. A rigorous but inspiring tale of hope in action, Sustainable Utopias makes the case that it is still worth believing in human creativity and the labor of citizenship.

The new German cinema : music, history, and the matter of style.
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ISBN: 9786612359705 0520937155 1597347736 1282359703 9780520937154 1417520027 9781417520022 0520228952 9780520228955 9781597347730 9781282359703 0520238230 9780520238237 6612359706 Year: 2004 Publisher: Berkeley University of California press

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When New German cinema directors like R. W. Fassbinder, Ulrike Ottinger, and Werner Schroeter explored issues of identity-national, political, personal, and sexual-music and film style played crucial roles. Most studies of the celebrated film movement, however, have sidestepped the role of music, a curious oversight given its importance to German culture and nation formation. Caryl Flinn's study reverses this trend, identifying styles of historical remembrance in which music participates. Flinn concentrates on those styles that urge listeners to interact with difference-including that embodied in Germany's difficult history-rather than to "master" or "get past" it. Flinn breaks new ground by considering contemporary reception frameworks of the New German Cinema, a generation after its end. She discusses transnational, cultural, and historical contexts as well as the sexual, ethnic, national, and historical diversity of audiences. Through detailed case studies, she shows how music helps filmgoers engage with a range of historical subjects and experiences. Each chapter of The New German Cinema examines a particular stylistic strategy, assessing music's role in each. The study also examines queer strategies like kitsch and camp and explores the movement's charged construction of human bodies on which issues of ruination, survival, memory, and pleasure are played out.


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Germany's rude awakening : censorship in the land of the Brothers Grimm
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ISBN: 0873384601 Year: 1992 Publisher: Kent Kent state university press

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098.1 --- 82:32 --- 830 "18" --- 655.4 <43> --- Censorship --- -German literature --- -Politics and literature --- -351.751 <43> --- Literature --- Literature and politics --- Book censorship --- Books --- Literature and morals --- Anticensorship activists --- Challenged books --- Expurgated books --- Intellectual freedom --- Prohibited books --- Verboden boeken --- Literatuur en politiek --- Duitse literatuur--19e eeuw. Periode 1800-1899 --- Uitgeverij. Boekhandel--algemeen--Duitsland voor 1945 en na 1989 --- History --- -History and criticism --- -Mediarecht. Vrijwaren van de vrijheid van denken, van de persvrijheid. Censuur. Filmcensuur. Reclamerecht--(Fundamentele vrijheden in de grondwet zie {342.732})--Duitsland voor 1945 en na 1989 --- Political aspects --- Law and legislation --- Grimm, Jacob --- Grimm, Wilhelm --- 351.751 <43> Mediarecht. Vrijwaren van de vrijheid van denken, van de persvrijheid. Censuur. Filmcensuur. Reclamerecht--(Fundamentele vrijheden in de grondwet zie {342.732})--Duitsland voor 1945 en na 1989 --- Mediarecht. Vrijwaren van de vrijheid van denken, van de persvrijheid. Censuur. Filmcensuur. Reclamerecht--(Fundamentele vrijheden in de grondwet zie {342.732})--Duitsland voor 1945 en na 1989 --- 830 "18" Duitse literatuur--19e eeuw. Periode 1800-1899 --- 82:32 Literatuur en politiek --- 098.1 Verboden boeken --- Grimm, Gebrüder --- German literature --- Politics and literature --- 351.751 <43> --- 19th century&delete& --- History and criticism --- Grimm, Jacob, --- Grimm, Wilhelm, --- Grim, Vilkhelm, --- Grimm, Guglielmo, --- Grimm, Vilʹgelʹm Karl, --- Grimm, Wilhelm Karl, --- Grimm Brothers --- Brothers Grimm --- Brüder Grimm --- Bratʹi︠a︡ Grimm --- Braty Grimm --- Krim eghbayrner --- Гримм, Вильгельм, --- ברודער גרים --- גרים וילהלם --- גרים, ווילהלם --- גרים, וילהלם --- גרים, וילהלם, --- Grim, I︠A︡kob, --- Grimm, Giacomo, --- Grimm, I︠A︡kov, --- Ko-lin, --- Grimm, Jakob Ludwig Karl, --- Grimm, Jakob, --- Grim, Jakob, --- ברידער גרים --- גרים --- גרים, ברידער --- גרים, ג׳יקוב --- גרים, ג׳יקוב, --- גרים, יעקב --- גרים, יעקב, --- ヤーコプグリム, --- Germany --- Hesse-Kassel (Electorate) --- 19th century --- Contemporary Germany --- Grimm, Wilhelm.

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