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New German Critique (2017) 44 (3 (132)): 39–60.
Published: 01 November 2017
... culture, as a context in which theory might be understood, remains a challenge. © 2017 by New German Critique, Inc. 2017 theory transfer publishing industry German-US cultural relations translation References Anderson Perry . 2013 . The New Old World . London : Verso , 2009...
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New German Critique (2023) 50 (3 (150)): 71–80.
Published: 01 November 2023
... us to challenge traditional chronologies by underscoring unexpected continuities and survivals of cultural patterns, motifs, and institutions. Historians of the Habsburg empire and Austria were the first to push German history in a transnational and comparative direction. This subfield lent...
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New German Critique (2023) 50 (3 (150)): 217–224.
Published: 01 November 2023
... of us with day jobs at the university and especially those of us who are well versed in theory do not like to be caught short, ethically or conceptually. I am not trying to position German studies (or classics) as the straw figures in these comments—I am insisting that what Siraj Ahmed has called...
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New German Critique (2010) 37 (2 (110)): 1–7.
Published: 01 August 2010
..., these are traits that we, the other editors at New German Critique, have come to value and rely on over the years. Andreas joined and became a full editor of NGC not long after its founding in 1973. His first arti­ cle ever in English, “The Cultural Politics of Pop: Reception and Critique of US Pop Art...
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New German Critique (2011) 38 (1 (112)): 9–38.
Published: 01 February 2011
... interpretation of Antigone as it relates to his reflections on mourning the dead and the dialectic structure of history. The New German Cinema’s engagement with the German Autumn frequently uses the polis-individual-family triad and a Hegelian conceptual lens to represent the belated historical...
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New German Critique (2009) 36 (2 (107)): 1–4.
Published: 01 August 2009
... lent itself all too easily to war propaganda. His work, together with that of Grosz, attempted to reinsert somatic terror into representations of the war to counter the visually sedative aspect of contem- porary German war photography. His use of animation seems close to Wal- ter Benjamin’s later...
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New German Critique (2012) 39 (1 (115)): 27–48.
Published: 01 February 2012
... in this article, Heimsuchung presents us with the most complex narrative rendering of Heimat: a configuration with intersecting temporal and spatial— as well as personal, social, and political—dimensions. 56. Jenny Erpenbeck, Heimsuchung (Frankfurt am Main: Eichborn, 2008). The German title carries...
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New German Critique (2023) 50 (3 (150)): 81–92.
Published: 01 November 2023
... such close attention to the various figures used to describe the presence of and the connections between Jews and other minoritized groups in German culture. Adelson points out that the figures of bridge, dialogue, and encounter that are often applied to the literature of Turkish migration to Germany cast...
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New German Critique (2020) 47 (1 (139)): 141–172.
Published: 01 February 2020
... Kracauer’s article, which might after all prove useful for us.” 14 In the introduction from February 24, 1941, the institute’s German Project makes the case for a problem-oriented group study “to provide an understanding of National Socialism by placing the movement in its cultural setting...
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New German Critique (2018) 45 (2 (134)): 179–200.
Published: 01 August 2018
... and future that challenges monolingual and monocultural paradigms of both Turkishness and Germanness based on an understanding of ethnic collectivity. 1. I use the term symbolic here to underscore that modernizing and westernizing reforms were not first enacted with the founding of the Republic...
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New German Critique (2023) 50 (3 (150)): 175–184.
Published: 01 November 2023
..., their Germanness is not and if they are allowed to be German, they are not so black, after all.” 3 El-Tayeb’s explication of Black Germanness as an irreconcilable identity within ideologically dominant German culture echoes uncannily with the above reaction to myself as a Black American in (unmarked) German...
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New German Critique (2017) 44 (1 (130)): 75–86.
Published: 01 February 2017
... was made to create a unified policy or to involve European Union structures in resolving the problem. One Dutch official told me, “We are not Germans. The Russians will treat us differently.” Such hopes proved mistaken: a part of the famous Franz Koenigs collection of drawings, pur- chased by Hans...
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New German Critique (2014) 41 (3 (123)): 179–197.
Published: 01 November 2014
... it within its historical context. For this purpose, it is beneficial to use a theoretical concept that addresses the history of the rela- tionship between Israelis and Germans. Dan Diner’s understanding of the history of the German-Jewish relation- ship offers a helpful conceptual framework because...
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New German Critique (2007) 34 (3 (102)): 17–44.
Published: 01 November 2007
... shifted radically. With empathy now attaching to victimized German protagonists, let alone to Hitler himself, we will have to reevaluate the function of emotions and subjectivity once more. For that reevaluation, Huyssen’s reading of Holocaust remains useful as a reminder of the poten- tially...
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New German Critique (2023) 50 (3 (150)): 119–131.
Published: 01 November 2023
... of the Berlin Wall. 26 Yet even a short report on German literature that the broadcaster Deutsche Welle made about the Frankfurt Bookfair in 2010 tells us that licenses for translations for German literature had by then already doubled since 1998. One publisher interviewed in the feature opines that readers...
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New German Critique (2018) 45 (2 (134)): 155–178.
Published: 01 August 2018
....” 4. The literature on Biermann is extensive. For a useful sampling, see Allertz, Sänger und Souffleur ; Bathrick, Powers of Speech ; Berbig et al., Im Sachen Biermann ; Cooke and Plowman, German Writers and the Politics of Culture ; Fox, Border Crossings ; Gansel et al., Die Biermann...
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New German Critique (2023) 50 (3 (150)): 51–60.
Published: 01 November 2023
... literary studies, Michaela Holdenried states that one of the central challenges of German studies is to bring together, methodologically and theoretically, intercultural approaches as they are increasingly used in Germany and transcultural approaches in US American German studies. Holdenried even claims...
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New German Critique (2009) 36 (3 (108)): 39–71.
Published: 01 November 2009
....” It is used to discuss Germany in broad terms but also in local and regional ones. Furthermore, as Georg Bollenbeck points out, “German Kultur intensifi ed itself with an anti-educational, idealist- romantic tradition, against positivism and rationalism, against empiricism and materialism” (BK, 22...
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New German Critique (2006) 33 (1 (97)): 5–14.
Published: 01 February 2006
... that the intellectual emigration was not made up just of Jews, even if Adorno’s audience at the Jewish Club was almost certainly composed largely of Jews from German-speaking lands. The text that Adorno used to reintroduce himself to the West German public was called “Cultural Criticism and Society...
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New German Critique (2008) 35 (2 (104)): 139–169.
Published: 01 August 2008
... wider context. This is not to say that only history matters in relation to Berlin—Dückers and Kaminer offer signifi cant testimonies to a changing German or Berlin culture—simply put, Schirrmacher’s rejection of the Gesinnungsästhetik does have worrying social and political implications...