Conference proceedings of Germany from the Outside held in September 2019 at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Finding Odysseus's scars again : hyperlinked literary histories in the age of refugees / B. Venkat Mani -- Between the court and the port, but never part of a nation : Friederike Brun's domesticated cosmopolitanism / Birgit Tautz -- On the inside looking out : Fichte, the university, and the psychopolitics of German idealism / Laurie Ruth Johnson -- Rewriting German literary history from the outside in : J.M. Coetzee's Elizabeth Costello / David D. Kim -- Looking for Heinrich Heine with Nâzım Hikmet and E.S. Özdamar / Azade Seyhan -- Between times and places : mobility and national identity in Albert Vigoleis Thelen's refugee memoirs from Spain and Portugal (August 31-September 1, 1939) / Carl Niekerk -- Writing Germany with Brazil : Julia Mann's memoir / Veronika Fuechtner -- From Vienna to the Midwest : Austrian Refugees and Quaker rescue efforts after 1938 / Bettina Brandt -- Keeping time : trauma as intimate alienation in Hans Keilson's writing / Anna M. Parkinson -- Tracing the continual present : Yoko Tawada and Vilém Flusser / Gizem Arslan -- Mobilizing the archive : Marica Bodrožić and Deniz Utlu's Unterhaltungen deutscher Eingewanderten / Claudia Breger -- Constructing an "inside" : transcultural laughter communities in Fatma Aydemir's Ellbogen (2017) and Olga Grjasnowa's Der Russe ist einer, der Birken liebt (2012) / Lucas Riddle -- Screening urban space and belonging in Berlin : contemporary Berliners in Sheri Hagen's Auf den zweiten Blick/At Second Glance (2013), Ines Johnson-Spain's Becoming Black (2019), and Amelia Umuhire's Polyglot (2015) / Berna Gueneli -- Bertolt Brecht's Me-ti or the aesthetics of translation : universal love, mutual benefits, and transience / Chunjie Zhang -- Clowns in exile : Hamletmaschine and the (in)human / Olivia Landry.
Summary:
"Illuminates our understanding of the nation and the role of culture in the nation, in an era of extreme displacement and increased migration, in "German" geopolitical and linguistic-cultural spaces"-- Provided by publisher.
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