Overview

More than 25,000 German-language titles have been published in the United States from the colonial period to the twentieth century. This book gives a fresh look at this rich historical tradition, with essays discussing all genres of this colorful literature, ranging from immigrant letters to experimental German-language poetry by Jewish women, from German-American novelists and playwrights to Austrian refugee publishers and a psychological theorist of the movies. German? American? Literature? reintroduces the modern reader to a fascinating subject that has gained new relevance in an age of increased global migrations.

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Author:   Winfried Fluck ,  Werner Sollors ,  Werner Sollors (Harvard University)
Publisher:   Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Imprint:   Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Volume:   2
Weight:   0.700kg
ISBN:  

9780820452296

ISBN 10:   0820452297
Pages:   419
Publication Date:   09 July 2002
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Contents: Werner Sollors: The German American Tradition Reconsidered - Sander L. Gilman: German? American? Literature? - Some Thoughts on the Problem of Question Marks and Hyphens - Frank Trommler: Literary Scholarship and Ethnic Studies: A Reevaluation - Alfred L. Brophy: The Intellectual World of a Seventeenth-Century Jurist: Francis Daniel Pastorius and the Reconstruction of Pietist Thought - Tatjana Koncilia: The Moravian Spiritual Autobiography: A Tale of Personal Faith or an Instrument of Community Discipline? - Kenneth Kronenberg: Personal Traits, Success, and Failure in Immigration: The Letters of the Van Dreveldts - Elliott Shore: The Mysteries of Philadelphia in 1850: The German American Context - Irene S. Di Maio: Unity and Diversity in Friedrich Gerstaecker's Novels of North American Immigration - Theodore Gish: Literature and German-Language Publications in Texas - Britta Behmer: From German Cultural Criticism to Abolitionism. Ottilie Assing: Zealous to give vent to her gall - Winfried Fluck: The Man Who Became Weary of America: Ferdinand Kuernberger's Novel Der Amerika-Muede (1855) - Sieglinde Lemke: Transatlantic Relations: The German Du Bois - Sabine Haenni: Constituting a Public: German Jewish Contact, German American Theater, and the Formation of German American Ethnicity in the 1890s - Lawrence Rosenwald: Language Traitors, Translation, and Die Emigranten - Peter Conolly-Smith: Hugo Muensterberg's Life, Career and Photoplay: A Psychological Study - Walter Hoelbling: The Collector, the Educator, and the Humanist: Austrian Publishers and Book Dealers in the USA after 1938 - Frauke Lenckos: Homeless: The Poetry of Anna Krommer - Kathleen Rose: Simkhe: Yiddish Words of Love - Heike Paul: Multilingualism and Metaphors of Musicality: Israel Zangwill, Jeannette Lander, Ferdinand Kuernberger - Norbert Krapf: The Complications in Making an American Book of Poems about Germany - Gert Niers: Same Place, Other Language: German Literature from America.

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The Editors: Winfried Fluck is Professor and Chair of American Culture at the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies of the Freie Universitaet Berlin. He has published widely on American literature and culture in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and on questions of literary and cultural theory. His books include Theorien der amerikanischen Kultur (1987), Inszenierte Wirklichkeit (1992), and Das kulturelle Imaginaere: Eine Funktionsgeschichte des amerikanischen Romans 1790-1900 (1997). Werner Sollors earned his Doctor of Philosophy degree at the Freie Universitaet Berlin and is now Henry B. and Anne M. Cabot Professor of English and Chair of the American Civilization Program at Harvard University. He is the author of Beyond Ethnicity (1986) and Neither Black nor White Yet Both (1997), and is the editor of The Multilingual Anthology of American Literature (2000).

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