Gender and Germanness: Cultural Productions of Nation

Published by Berghahn Books 1998

Gender and Germanness

Cultural Productions of Nation

Edited by: Patricia Herminghouse and Magda Mueller

Volume 4 in the series Modern German Studies

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781785330070

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Cultural Studies have been preoccupied with questions of national identity and cultural representations. At the same time, feminist studies have insisted upon the entanglement of gender with issues of nation, class, and ethnicity. Developments in the wake of German unification demand a reassessment of the nexus of gender, Germanness and nationhood. The contributors to this volume pursue these strands of the cultural debate in German history, literature, visual arts, and language over a period of three hundred years in sections devoted to History and the Canon, Visual Culture, Germany and Her "Others," and Language and Power.

Contributors: L. Adelson, A. Taylor Allen, K. Bauer, R. Berman, B. Byg, M. Denman, E. Frederiksen, S. Friedrichsmeyer, E. Kaufmann, L. Koepnick, B. Kosta, S. Lefko, A. M.O'Sickey, B. Mennel, H. M. Müller, B. Peterson, L. Pusch, D. Sweet, H. Watt, S. Zantop.

Author / Editor information

Patricia Herminghouse teaches in the Department of Modern Languages and Culture at the University of Rochester.

Magda Mueller in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at California State University, Chico.

Patricia Herminghouse teaches in the Department of Modern Languages and Culture at the University of Rochester.

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"This fascinating and informative collection of twenty-two mostly original essays showcases feminist German Studies at its finest ... Decentering Germany in our own scholarly work will help us to further challenge the settled definitions of gender and Germanness which this volume so splendidly details." · Women in German

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Lorenz Clasen, Germania auf der Wacht am Rhein, 1860. Courtesy of the Krefelder Kunstmuseen Publicly Available Download PDF	viii
Introduction. LOOKING FOR GERMANIA Patricia Herminghouse and Magda Mueller Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I. EIGHTEENTH AND NINETEENTH CENTURY
Chapter 1. THE BEAUTIFUL, THE UGLY, AND THE GERMAN Race, Gender, and Nationality in Eighteenth-Century Anthropological Discourse Susanne Zantop Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	21
Chapter 2. SOPHIE LA ROCHE AS A GERMAN PATRIOT Helga Schutte Watt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	36
Chapter 3. ROMANTIC NATIONALISM Achim von Arnim’s Gypsy Princess Isabella Sara Friedrichsmeyer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	51
Chapter 4. HOW TO THINK ABOUT GERMANY Nationality, Gender, and Obsession in Heine’s “Night Thoughts” Russell A. Berman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	66
Chapter 5. THE FATHERLAND’S KISS OF DEATH Gender and Germany in Nineteenth-Century Historical Fiction Brent O. Peterson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	82
Part II. RETHINKING HISTORY AND CANONS
Chapter 6. THE CHALLENGE OF “MISSING CONTENTS” FOR CANON FORMATION IN GERMAN STUDIES Elke Frederiksen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	101
Chapter 7. FEMINISM AND MOTHERHOOD IN GERMANY AND IN INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE 1800-1914 Ann Taylor Allen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	113
Chapter 8. “TRULY WOMANLY” AND “TRULY GERMAN” Women’s Rights and National Identity in Die Frau Stefana Lefko Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	129
Chapter 9. THE LADIES’ AUXILIARY OF GERMAN LITERATURE Nineteenth-Century Women Writers and the Quest for a National Literary History Patricia Herminghouse Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	145
Part III. VISUAL CULTURE
Chapter 10. EN-GENDERING MASS CULTURE The Case of Zarah Leander Lutz P. Koepnick Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	161
Chapter 11. NAZISM AS FEMME FATALE Recuperations of Cinematic Masculinity in Postwar Berlin Barton Byg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	176
Chapter 12. VISUALIZING THE NATION Madonnas and Mourning Mothers in Postwar Germany Denman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	189
Chapter 13. FRAMING THE UNHEIMLICH Heimatfilm and Bambi Ingeborg Majer O’Sickey Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	202
Chapter 14. RAPE, NATION AND REMEMBERING HISTORY Helke Sander’s Liberators Take Liberties Barbara Kosta Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	217
Part IV. GERMANY AND HER “OTHERS”
Chapter 15. “GERMANY IS FULL OF GERMANS NOW” Germanness in Ama Ata Aidoo’s Our Sister Killjoy and Chantal Akerman’s Meetings with Anna Barbara Mennel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	235
Chapter 16. BODIES FOR GERMANY, BODIES FOR SOCIALISM The German Democratic Republic Devises a Gay (Male) Body Sweet Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	248
Chapter 17. PATTERNS OF CONSCIOUSNESS AND CYCLES OF SELF-DESTRUCTION Nation, Ethnicity, and Gender in Herta Müller’s Prose Karin Bauer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	263
Chapter 18. GERMANIA DISPLACED? Reflections on the Discourses of Female Asylum Seekers and Ethnic Germans Magda Mueller Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	276
Chapter 19. GERMANIA – JUST A MALE CONSTRUCTION? Gender,Germanness, and Feminism in East German Women Writers Eva Kaufmann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	290
Chapter 20. THE PRICE OF FEMINISM Of Women and Turks Leslie A. Adelson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	305
Part V. FATHERLAND AND MOTHER TONGUE
Chapter 21. LANGUAGE IS PUBLICITY FOR MEN – BUT ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! Luise F. Pusch Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	323
Chapter 22. THE NEW DUDEN Out of Date Already Luise F. Pusch Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	327
CONTRIBUTORS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	331

Language: English
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 336
Keywords: Gender Studies and Sexuality; Cultural Studies (General); History (General); Gender Studies and Sexuality

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Published: February 1, 1998
ISBN: 9781785330070