Gender and Germanness : cultural productions of nation /: cultural productions of nation. (1998)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Patricia Herminghouse and Magda Mueller.
• Other Names: Herminghouse, Patricia; Mueller, Magda
• Contents: Introduction: Looking for Germania 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 Chapter 2. Sophie La Roche as a German Patriot; Helga S. Watt Chapter 3. Romantic Nationalism: Achim von Arnim’s Gypsy Princess Isabella; Sara Friedrichsmeyer Chapter 4. How to Think about Germany: Nationality, Gender, and Obsession in Heine’s “Night Thoughts”; Russell A. Berman Chapter 5. The Fatherland’s Kiss of Death: Gender and Germany in Nineteenth-Century Historical Fiction; Brent O. Peterson PART II: RETHINKING HISTORY AND CANONS Chapter 6. The Challenge of “Missing Contents” for Canon Formation in German Studies; Elke Frederiksen Chapter 7. Feminism and Motherhood in Germany and in International Perspective 1800-1914; Ann Taylor Allen Chapter 8. “Truly Womanly” and “Truly German”: Women’s Rights and National Identity in Die Frau ; Stefana Lefko Chapter 9. The Ladies’ Auxiliary of German Literature: Nineteenth-Century Women Writers and the Quest for a National Literary History; Patricia Herminghouse PART III: VISUAL CULTURE Chapter 10. En-Gendering Mass Culture: The Case of Zarah Leander; Lutz P. Koepnick Chapter 11. Nazism as Femme Fatale: Recuperations of Cinematic Masculinity in Postwar Berlin; Barton Byg Chapter 12. Visualizing the Nation: Madonnas and Mourning Mothers in Postwar Germany; Mariatte C. Denman Chapter 13. Framing the Unheimlich: Heimatfilm and Bambi; Ingeborg Majer O’Sickey Chapter 14. ; Rape, Nation, and Remembering History: Helke Sander’s Liberators Take Liberties ; Barbara Kosta 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; Ackerman’s Meetings with Anna ; Barbara Mennel Chapter 16. Bodies for Germany, Bodies for Socialism: The German Democratic Republic Devises a Gay (Male) Body; Denis Sweet Chapter 17. Patterns of Consciousness and Cycles of Self-Destruction: Nation, Ethnicity, and Gender in Herta Müller’s Prose; Karin Bauer Chapter 18. Germania Displaced? Reflections on the Discourses of Female Asylum Seekers and Ethnic Germans; Magda Mueller Chapter 19. GERMANIA – Just a Male Construction? Gender, Germanness, and Feminism in East German Women; Writers; Eva Kaufmann Chapter 20. The Price of Feminism: Of Women and Turks; Leslie Adelson PART V: FATHERLAND AND MOTHER TONGUE Chapter 21. Language is Publicity for Men – but enough is enough!; Luise Pusch Chapter 22. The New Duden : Out of Date Already?; Luise Pusch Contributors; Index
• Publisher Details: New York, NY : Berghahn Books
• Publication Date: 1998
• Extent: 1 online resource (336 pages)
• Subjects: 306.0943; National characteristics, German; Women -- Germany; German literature -- History and criticism; Gender identity in literature; Nationalism in literature; Arts, German; Gender identity in art; Literature; Arts, German; Gender identity in art; Gender identity in literature; German literature; National characteristics, German; Nationalism in literature; Women; Germany -- In literature; Germany; Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781785330070; 1785330071
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