German Studies

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Out of Line

Reading and Writing Protest in West Germany, 1968

By Peter Schweppe
Subjects: History, German History, German Studies
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

How the politics of print transformed protest in West Germany's Global Sixties

Just Language

Walter Benjamin, German-Jewish Exile, and the Critique of Linguistic Violence

By Dennis Johannßen
Subjects: German Studies, Political Science, Political Theory
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

A new analysis of linguistic violence and resistance in the works of German-Jewish authors

The Photographic Fix

Memory, Ideology, and the First World War in the Weimar Republic

By Justin Court
Subjects: German Studies, History, German History, Political Science
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

The construction of public memory and commemoration through wartime photographs

Building the East German Myth

Historical Mythology and Youth Propaganda in the German Democratic Republic, 1945-1989

By Alan L. Nothnagle
Subjects: German Studies, History
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

Icon Dresden

Baroque City, Air War Symbol, Political Token

By Susanne Vees-Gulani
Subjects: History, German History, German Studies, Political Science
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

What makes a city innocent?

Imperialist Imagination

German Colonialism and Its Legacy

Edited by Sara L. Friedrichsmeyer, Sara Lennox, and Susanne M. Zantop
Subjects: German Studies, History, Literary Studies, European Literature, Cultural Studies
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

Little Tools of Knowledge

Historical Essays on Academic and Bureaucratic Practices

Edited by Peter Becker & William Clark
Subjects: German Studies, History
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

Socialist Subjectivities

Queering East Germany under Honecker

Edited by Katharine White, Scott Harrison, and Jeff Hayton
Subjects: German Studies, History, German History, Gender Studies, Gay and Lesbian Studies
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

Reexamining how East Germans constructed their present and future subjectivities

Interrogating Integration

Sport, Celebrity, and Scandal in the Making of New Germany

By Kate Zambon
Subjects: German Studies, Media Studies, New Media, Sports, Political Science
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

Examining integration discourse through the lens of public debates and sporting events in Germany

German Empires and Decolonial Fantasies, 1492–1942

By Patricia Anne Simpson
Subjects: History, German History, German Studies, Political Science
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

An expansive study of imperial Germany to decolonize colonial narratives and national imaginaries

Dancing with the Modernist City

Metropolitan Dance Texts around 1900

By Wesley Lim
Subjects: German Studies, Dance, Sexuality Studies, Theater and Performance

Combining urban experiences and modern dance to develop metropolitan dance texts

Uncanny Creatures

Doll Thinking in Modern German Culture

By Christophe Koné
Subjects: German Studies, Art, Art History
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

How dolls have fascinated writers, thinkers, and artists alike in Modern German culture

Staging Blackness

Representations of Race in German-Speaking Drama and Theater

Edited by Priscilla Dionne Layne & Lily Tonger-Erk
Subjects: German Studies, Theater and Performance

Examining how Blackness has been historically staged in German theater and how it should be represented today

Life, Earth, Colony

Friedrich Ratzel's Necropolitical Geography

By Ian Klinke
Subjects: German Studies, History, Intellectual History, Political Science, Political Theory

A critical exploration of Friedrich Ratzel and the relationship between colonial and fascist necropolitics

Women in German Expressionism

Gender, Sexuality, Activism

Edited by Anke Finger & Julie Shoults
Subjects: German Studies, Literary Studies, Modern Literature
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

Literary scholarship questions and challenges the limited and fossilized gender narrative of German Expressionism

Queer Livability

German Sexual Sciences and Life Writing

By Ina Linge
Subjects: German Studies, Gender Studies, Gay and Lesbian Studies, Sexuality Studies
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

Reveals how queer and trans life writers use narrative strategies to create the possibility for a livable queer life

Moderate Modernity

The Newspaper Tempo and the Transformation of Weimar Democracy

By Jochen Hung
Subjects: German Studies
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

A history of “Germany’s most modern newspaper” through the rise of the Nazis and the collapse of Germany’s first democracy

African Students in East Germany, 1949-1975

By Sara Pugach
Subjects: German Studies, African Studies, History, German History
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

Describes the lived experiences of African students in communist East Germany to shed new light on the history of Germany, Africa, and decolonization

The Apocalypse in Reformation Nuremberg

Jews and Turks in Andreas Osiander’s World

By Andrew L. Thomas
Subjects: German Studies, Medieval and Renaissance Studies, History, German History

Illuminates the impact of Jews and Turks on the life and work of influential reformer Andreas Osiander

The Apocalypse in Reformation Nuremberg

Jews and Turks in Andreas Osiander's World

By Andrew L. Thomas
Subjects: German Studies, Medieval and Renaissance Studies, History, German History

Illuminates the impact of Jews and Turks on the life and work of influential reformer Andreas Osiander

Open Wounds

Holocaust Theater and the Legacy of George Tabori

By Martin Kagel & David Z. Saltz
Subjects: Theater and Performance, German Studies, Jewish Studies

Explores the irreverent theater of George Tabori and its enduring legacy within Holocaust theater

The Arts of Democratization

Styling Political Sensibilities in Postwar West Germany

By Jennifer M. Kapczynski & Caroline Kita
Subjects: German Studies, History, German History, Political Science
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

How postwar West German democracy was styled through word, image, sound, performance, and gathering

Decolonizing German and European History at the Museum

By Katrin Sieg
Subjects: German Studies, History, European History
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

How do museums confront the violence of European colonialism, conquest, dispossession, enslavement, and genocide?

The Right to Difference

Interculturality and Human Rights in Contemporary German Literature

By Nicole Coleman
Subjects: German Studies, Literary Studies, European Literature, Race and Ethnicity

Develops a theory of intercultural literature to reconcile diversity with traditional notions of German identity

Spaces of Honor

Making German Civil Society, 1700-1914

By Heikki Lempa
Subjects: German Studies, History, German History, European Studies
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

Traces the development of German civil society through collective actions of honor

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