| Description |
x, 312 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture
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Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction / Rob McFarland and Michelle Stott James -- "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) / Linda Dietrick -- "Hier oder nirgends ist Amerika!": America and the idea of autonomy in Sophie Mereau's "Elise" (1800) / Tom Spencer -- A "Swiss Amazon" in the New World: images of America in the Lebensbeschreibung of Regula Engel (1821) / Julie Koser -- Amalia Schoppe's Die Auswanderer nach Brasilien oder die Hütte am Gigitonhonha (1828) / Gabi Kathöfer -- Inscribed in the body: Ida Pfeiffer's Reise in die neue Welt (1856) / Ulrike Brisson -- Mathilde Franziska Anneke's Anti-Slavery Novella Uhland in Texas (1866) / Denise M. Della Rossa -- "Ich bin ein Pioneer": Sidonie Grünwald-Zerkowitz's Die Lieder der Mormonin (1887) and the erotic exploration of exotic America / Sarah C. Reed -- Seductive and destructive: Argentina in Gabriele Reuter's Kolonistenvolk (1889) / David Tingey -- Inventing America: German Racism and colonial dreams in Sophie Wörishöffer's Im Goldlande Kalifornien (1891) / Nicole Grewling -- Aus vergangenen Tagen: Eine Erzählung aus der Sklavenzeit (1906): Clara Berens's German American "Race Melodrama" in its American Literary Contexts / Judith E. Martin -- "Der verfluchte Yankee!" Gabriele Reuter's Episode Hopkins (1889) and Der Amerikaner (1907) / Christiane Arndt -- Reframing the Poetics of the Aztec Empire: Gertrud Kolmar's "Die Aztekin" (1920) / Carola Daffner Synthesis, gender, and race in Alice Salomon's Kultur im Werden (1924) / Christine Rinne -- Land of fantasy, land of fiction: Klara May's Mit Karl May durch Amerika (1931) / Maureen O. Gallagher -- An Ideological Framing of Annemarie Schwarzenbach's racialized gaze: writing and shooting for the USA-Reportagen (1936-38) / Ute Bettray -- "Fighting against Manitou": German identity and Ilse Schreiber's Canada novels Die Schwestern aus Memel (1936) and Die Flucht in Paradies (1939) / Florentine Strzelczyk -- Mexico as a model for how to live in the times of history: Anna Seghers's Crisanta (1951) / Thomas W. Kniesche -- East Germany's imaginary Indians: Liselotte Welskopf-Henrich's Harka Cycle (1951-63) and its DEFA adaptation Die Söhne der Grossen Bärin (1966) / Petra Watzke -- Finding identity through traveling the New World: Angela Krauss's Die Überfliegerin (1995) and Milliarden neuer Sterne (1999) / Monika Hohbein-Deegen Discovery or invention: Newfoundland in Gabrielle Alioth's Die Erfindung von Liebe und Tod (2003) / Silke R. Falkner -- Tzveta Sofronieva's "Über das Glück nach der Lektüre von Schopenhauer, in Kalifornien" (2007) / Chantal Wright -- "Amerika ist alles und das Gegenteil von allem. Amerika ist anders." Milena Moser's travel guide to San Francisco (2008) / Karin Baumgartner -- Bibliography: the New World in German-language literature by Women. |
| Summary |
Cultural and literary historians investigate the unique literary bridge between German-speaking women and the ""New World,"" examining novels, films, travel literature, poetry, erotica, and photography. |
| Subject |
German literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
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German literature -- Women authors. |
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German literature -- America -- History and criticism.
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German literature. |
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America. |
| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Added Author |
McFarland, Robert B., editor.
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James, Michelle Stott, editor.
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| ISBN |
1571135863 (hardcover) (acid-free paper) |
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9781571135865 (hardcover) (acid-free paper) |
| Standard No. |
40023904628 |
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