How dolls have fascinated writers, thinkers, and artists alike in Modern German culture
Literary scholarship questions and challenges the limited and fossilized gender narrative of German Expressionism
An exploration of the West German attempt to repress and refashion concepts of "race" after the Holocaust
Reveals how queer and trans life writers use narrative strategies to create the possibility for a livable queer life
A history of “Germany’s most modern newspaper” through the rise of the Nazis and the collapse of Germany’s first democracy
Describes the lived experiences of African students in communist East Germany to shed new light on the history of Germany, Africa, and decolonization
How postwar West German democracy was styled through word, image, sound, performance, and gathering
How do museums confront the violence of European colonialism, conquest, dispossession, enslavement, and genocide?
Traces the development of German civil society through collective actions of honor
Debt as a social relation at the intersection of history and anthropology in the precarious economies of nineteenth-century liberalism
The dynamics between gender and body in Weimar Germany explored through images and case studies
Jewish filmmakers inspire New German Cinema within the discursive landscape of the German “Heimat”
Comparative context for understanding the experience of the German Jewry in the wake of Nazi plundering, racism, and genocide
A groundbreaking cross-disciplinary account of how sex became an object of scientific study in modernity
Rethinks German literature by challenging the notion that national literature is the narrative of a spiritually united people
Investigates the appropriation of black popular culture as a symbol of rebellion in postwar Germany
Investigates the role of sex and sexuality in early 20th-century German culture, and how this past continues to shape the present
Challenges the notion that Weimar Jews sought to be invisible or indistinguishable from other Germans by “passing” as non-Jews
The first conceptual history of the development and evolution of the image of Jews and Jewish participation in modern German-speaking cosmopolitanist thought
Explores visual representations of the Allied bombing war on Germany to reveal how Germans remembered and commemorated WWII
Reveals the wide-ranging influence of American jazz on German discussions of music, race, and culture in the early twentieth century
A pathbreaking study of the psychic afflictions of German soldiers returning from the Second World War
Tracing Germany’s significance as an essential crossroads and incubator for modern Jewish culture
Reclaims the essential role that the city of Breslau played in the origins of aesthetic modernism in the Weimar era
Examines the connections between the emergence of Weimar photographic books and modern conceptions of photographic meaning