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The Discursive Construction of National Identity
How do we construct national identities in discourse? Which topics, which discursive strategies and which linguistic devices are employed to construct national sameness and uniqueness on the one hand, and differences to other national collectives on the o
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Formative Fictions
The Bildungsroman, or \"novel of formation,\" has long led a paradoxical life within literary studies, having been construed both as a peculiarly German genre, a marker of that country's cultural difference from Western Europe, and as a universal expression of modernity. In Formative Fictions, Tobias Boes argues that the dual status of the Bildungsroman renders this novelistic form an elegant way to negotiate the diverging critical discourses surrounding national and world literature. Since the late eighteenth century, authors have employed the story of a protagonist's journey into maturity as a powerful tool with which to facilitate the creation of national communities among their readers. Such attempts always stumble over what Boes calls \"cosmopolitan remainders,\" identity claims that resist nationalism's aim for closure in the normative regime of the nation-state. These cosmopolitan remainders are responsible for the curiously hesitant endings of so many novels of formation. In Formative Fictions, Boes presents readings of a number of novels—Goethe's Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship, Karl Leberecht Immermann's The Epigones, Gustav Freytag's Debit and Credit, Alfred Döblin's Berlin Alexanderplatz, and Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustus among them—that have always been felt to be particularly \"German\" and compares them with novels by such authors as George Eliot and James Joyce to show that what seem to be markers of national particularity can productively be read as topics of world literature.
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A Satellite Empire
Satellite Empire is an in-depth investigation of the
political and social history of the area in southwestern Ukraine
under Romanian occupation during World War II. Transnistria was the
only occupied Soviet territory administered by a power other than
Nazi Germany, a reward for Romanian participation in Operation
Barbarossa.
Vladimir Solonari's invaluable contribution to World War II
history focuses on three main aspects of Romanian rule of
Transnistria: with fascinating insights from recently opened
archives, Solonari examines the conquest and delimitation of the
region, the Romanian administration of the new territory, and how
locals responded to the occupation. What did Romania want from the
conquest? The first section of the book analyzes Romanian policy
aims and its participation in the invasion of the USSR. Solonari
then traces how Romanian administrators attempted, in contradictory
and inconsistent ways, to make Transnistria \"Romanian\" and
\"civilized\" while simultaneously using it as a dumping ground for
150,000 Jews and 20,000 Roma deported from a racially cleansed
Romania. The author shows that the imperatives of total war
eventually prioritized economic exploitation of the region over any
other aims the Romanians may have had. In the final section, he
uncovers local responses in terms of collaboration and resistance,
in particular exploring relationships with the local Christian
population, which initially welcomed the occupiers as liberators
from Soviet oppression but eventually became hostile to them. Ever
increasing hostility towards the occupying regime buoyed the
numbers and efficacy of pro-Soviet resistance groups.
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Globalisation and the nation in imperial Germany
\"The process of globalisation in the late nineteenth century had a profound effect on the trajectories of German nationalism. While the existing literature on the subject has largely remained within the confines of national history, Sebastian Conrad uses the example of mobility and labour migration to show to what extent German nationalism was transformed under the auspices of global integration. Among the effects of cross border circulation were the emergence of diasporic nationalism, the racialisation of the nation, the implementation of new border regimes, and the hegemony of ideological templates that connected nationalist discourse to global geopolitics. Ranging from the African colonies, China and Brazil to the Polish speaking territories in Eastern Europe, this groundbreaking book demonstrates that the dynamics of German nationalism were not only negotiated in the Kaiserreich but also need to be situated in the broader context of globalisation before the First World War\"--Provided by publisher.
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Jewish Pasts, German Fictions
Jewish Pasts, German Fictions is the first comprehensive study of how German-Jewish writers used images from the Spanish-Jewish past to define their place in German culture and society. Jonathan Skolnik argues that Jewish historical fiction was a form of cultural memory that functioned as a parallel to the modern, demythologizing project of secular Jewish history writing. What did it imply for a minority to imagine its history in the majority language? Skolnik makes the case that the answer lies in the creation of a German-Jewish minority culture in which historical fiction played a central role. After Hitler's rise to power in 1933, Jewish writers and artists, both in Nazi Germany and in exile, employed images from the Sephardic past to grapple with the nature of fascism, the predicament of exile, and the destruction of European Jewry in the Holocaust. The book goes on to show that this past not only helped Jews to make sense of the nonsense, but served also as a window into the hopes for integration and fears about assimilation that preoccupied German-Jewish writers throughout most of the nineteenth century. Ultimately, Skolnik positions the Jewish embrace of German culture not as an act of assimilation but rather a reinvention of Jewish identity and historical memory.
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