Sophie discovers Amerika : German-speaking women write the new world /: German-speaking women write the new world. (2014)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Rob McFarland and Michelle Stott James.
• Editors: McFarland, Robert B; James, Michelle Stott
• Contents: Frontcover; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1: "Schwimme mit mir hinüber zu den Hütten unserer Nachbarn": Colonial Islands in Sophie von La Roche's Erscheinungen am See Oneida (1798) and Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre's Paul et Virginie (1788); 2: "Hier oder nirgends ist Amerika!": America and the Idea of Autonomy in Sophie Mereau's "Elise" (1800); 3: A "Swiss Amazon" in the New World: Images of America in the Lebensbeschreibung of Regula Engel (1821); 4: Amalia Schoppe's Die Auswanderer nach Brasilien oder die Hütte am Gigitonhonha (1828). 5: Inscribed in the Body: Ida Pfeiffer's Reise in die neue Welt (1856)6: Mathilde Franziska Anneke's Anti-Slavery Novella Uhland in Texas (1866); 7: "Ich bin ein Pioneer": Sidonie Grünwald-Zerkowitz's Die Lieder der Mormonin (1887) and the Erotic Exploration of Exotic America; 8: Seductive and Destructive: Argentina in Gabriele Reuter's Kolonistenvolk (1889); 9: Inventing America: German Racism and Colonial Dreams in Sophie Wörishöffer's Im Goldlande Kalifornien (1891). 10: Aus vergangenen Tagen: Eine Erzählung aus der Sklavenzeit (1906): Clara Berens's German American "Race Melodrama" in Its American Literary Contexts11: "Der verfluchte Yankee!" Gabriele Reuter's Episode Hopkins (1889) and Der Amerikaner (1907); 12: Reframing the Poetics of the Aztec Empire: Gertrud Kolmar's "Die Aztekin" (1920); 13: Synthesis, Gender, and Race in Alice Salomon's Kultur im Werden (1924); 14: Land of Fantasy, Land of Fiction: Klara May's Mit Karl May durch Amerika (1931). 15: An Ideological Framing of Annemarie Schwarzenbach's Racialized Gaze: Writing and Shooting for the USA-Reportagen (1936-38)16: "Fighting against Manitou": German Identity and Ilse Schreiber's Canada Novels Die Schwestern aus Memel (1936) and Die Flucht in Paradies (1939); 17: Mexico as a Model for How to Live in the Times of History: Anna Seghers's Crisanta (1951); 18: East Germany's Imaginary Indians: Liselotte Welskopf-Henrich's Harka Cycle (1951-63) and Its DEFA Adaptation Die Söhne der Großen Bärin (1966). 19: Finding Identity through Traveling the New World: Angela Krauß's Die Überfliegerin (1995) and Milliarden neuer Sterne (1999)20: Discovery or Invention: Newfoundland in Gabrielle Alioth's Die Erfindung von Liebe und Tod (2003); 21: Tzveta Sofronieva's "Über das Glücknach der Lektüre von Schopenhauer, in Kalifornien" (2007); 22: "Amerika ist alles und das Gegenteil von allem. Amerika ist anders." Milena Moser's Travel Guide to San Francisco (2008); Bibliography: The New World in German-Language Literature by Women; Notes on the Contributors; Index; Backcover.
• Publisher Details: Rochester, New York : Camden House
• Publication Date: 2014
• Extent: 1 online resource (xii, 312 pages)
• Subjects: 830.9/9287; German literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism; German literature -- America, German-speaking -- History and criticism; LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- German; German literature; German literature -- Women authors; Deutsch; Frauenliteratur; Amerikabild; Electronic books; Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 1571138986; 9781571138989
• Related ISBNs: 9781571135865; 1571135863
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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