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German literature --- National characteristics, German, in literature --- History and criticism --- Annolied. --- National characteristics, German, in literature. --- History and criticism.

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Imperial Fictions explores ways in which writers from late antiquity to the present have imagined communities before and beyond the nation-state. It takes as its point of departure challenges to the discrete nation-state posed by globalization, migration, and European integration today, but then circles back to the beginnings of European history after the fall of the Roman Empire. Unlike nationalist literary historians of the nineteenth century, who sought the tribal roots of an allegedly homogeneous people, this study finds a distant mirror of analogous processes today in the fluid mixtures and movements of peoples. Imperial Fictions argues that it is time to stop thinking about today's multicultural present as a deviation from a culturally monolithic past. We should rather consider the various permutations of "German" identities that have been negotiated within local and imperial contexts from the early Middle Ages to the present.

German literature --- Imperialism in literature. --- Nationalism in literature. --- National characteristics, German, in literature. --- History and criticism.

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German literature --- Intergenerational relations --- Collective memory --- National characteristics, German, in literature. --- Mass media and culture --- Literature and history --- History and criticism.

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Recent scholarship has broadened definitions of war and shifted from the narrow focus on battles and power struggles to include narratives of the homefront and private sphere. To expand scholarship on textual representations of war means to shed light on the multiple theaters of war, and on the many voices who contributed to, were affected by, and/or critiqued German war efforts. Engaged women writers and artists commented on their nations' imperial and colonial ambitions and the events of the tumultuous beginning of the twentieth century. In an interdisciplinary investigation, this volume explores select female-authored, German-language texts focusing on German colonial wars and World War I and the discourses that promoted or critiqued their premises. They examine how colonial conflicts contributed to a persistent atmosphere of Kriegsbegeisterung (war enthusiasm) that eventually culminated in the outbreak of World War I, or a Kriegskritik (criticism of war) that resisted it. The span from German colonialism to World War I brings these explosive periods into relief and challenges readers to think about the intersection of nationalism, violence and gender and about the historical continuities and disruptions that shape such events.

Colonies in literature. --- World War, 1914-1918 --- German literature --- National characteristics, German, in literature. --- Literature and the war. --- History and criticism. --- Women authors --- Germany --- Colonies.

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Die Studie untersucht aktuelle literarische und kulturelle Figurationen Deutschlands in der Literatur, im Film sowie der öffentlichen Debatte und fragt nach den Mechanismen der Herstellung von Deutschlandbildern, u.a. anhand von Texten von Ingo Schulze, Jenny Erpenbeck, Wolfgang Büscher, Roger Willemsen und Daniel Kehlmann sowie Filmen von Sönke Wortmann und Wolfgang Becker, dem Phänomen der Ostalgie und der Berliner Stadtschloss-Planung. Mit dem Konzept des Imaginären nimmt die Studie die Prozesshaftigkeit der analysierten Deutschlandbilder in den Blick: Das Imaginäre kann als dynamische Struktur der Identifizierung hergeleitet werden. Diese Dynamik wird motiviert durch das Begehren nach Identität, das ihr als unmögliches Versprechen inhärent ist. Das Image, ein Begriff, der bisher selten im Fokus kulturwissenschaftlicher Fragestellungen stand, setzt das unerfüllbare Identitätsbegehren kurzfristig in Bilder um. Als temporäre Bildfunktion ermöglicht es das Image, die ökonomische Funktion von Selbstbildern einzubeziehen, denn das Image, das naturalisierend und aufgrund seiner reflexiven Struktur gemeinschaftsbildend arbeitet, ,verkauft' vermeintliche Identitäten. Die Analysen rücken die spezifischen Verfahren der literarischen und filmischen Beispiele, einer Standortinitiative und einer Mediendebatte in den Fokus und untersuchen ihre Beteiligung an der Dynamik der Identifizierung.

National characteristics, German, in literature --- National characteristics, German, in motion pictures --- Germany --- In literature --- In mass media --- National characteristics, German, in literature. --- National characteristics, German, in motion pictures. --- In literature. --- In mass media. --- Germany -- In literature. --- Germany -- In mass media. --- Languages & Literatures --- Germanic Literature --- Motion pictures --- Germany - In literature --- Germany - In mass media --- The imagined. --- image. --- nation. --- psychoanalysis.