Gender and Germanness Cultural Productions of Nation [Paperback]

Cultural Studies have been preoccupied with questions of national identity and cultural representations. At the same time, feminist studies have insisted upon the entanglement of gender with issues of nation, class, and ethnicity. Developments in the wake of German unification demand a reassessment of the nexus of gender, Germanness and nationhood. The contributors to this volume pursue these strands of the cultural debate in German history, literature, visual arts, and language over a period of three hundred years in sections devoted to History and the Canon, Visual Culture, Germany and Her Others, and Language and Power.

Contributors:L. Adelson, A. Taylor Allen, K. Bauer, R. Berman, B. Byg, M. Denman, E. Frederiksen, S. Friedrichsmeyer, E. Kaufmann, L. Koepnick, B. Kosta, S. Lefko, A. M.O'Sickey, B. Mennel, H. M. M?ller, B. Peterson, L. Pusch, D. Sweet, H. Watt, S. Zantop.

This fascinating and informative collection of twenty-two mostly original essays showcases feminist German Studies at its finest ... Decentering Germany in our own scholarly work will help us to further challenge the settled definitions of gender and Germanness which this volume so splendidly details. ????Women in German

Introduction:Looking for Germania

PART I: EIGHTEENTH AND NINETEENTH CENTURY

Chapter 1.The Beautiful, the Ugly, and the German: Race, Gender and Nationality in Eighteenth-Century Anthropological Discourse
Susanne Zantop

Chapter 2.Sophie La Roche as a German Patriot
Helga S. Watt

Chapter 3.Romantic Nationalism: Achim von Arnims Gypsy Princess Isabella
Sara Friedrichsmeyer

Chapter 4.How to Think about Germany: Nationality, Gender, and Obsession in Heines Night Thoughts
Russell A. Berman

Chapter 5.The Fatherlands Kisl#Q