...Katie Trumpener Copyright © 1989-90 by Duke University Press 1989 On the Road: Labor, Ethnicity and the New "New German Cinema" in the Age of the Multinational Katie Trumpener Department of German The University of Chicago In West Germany today, national self...

...Rita Chin A striking aspect of contemporary European debates about immigrants is the focus on the Muslim woman as the key figure through which objections to Islamic cultural difference have been articulated. This article traces how sexual politics became central to German public debates about guest...

...Maayan Amir In Eichmann in Jerusalem , Hannah Arendt illustrates the “lesser of two evils” principle by relating the peculiar story of a state archive of photographs of women in swimwear. During the Nazi period, she writes, to receive a marriage license Czech women applying to marry German soldiers...

...Dominic Boyer Duke University Press 2006 Agamben, Giorgio. 1998 . Homo sacer: Sovereign power and bare life. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press. Berdahl, Daphne. 1999 . “(N)Ostalgie” for the present: Memory, longing, and East German things. Ethnos 64 : 192 -211...

... Colonial memories and images occupy a paradoxi- cal place in Germany. This is due in part to the peculiarities of German colo- nial history, but it also reflects another aspect of German exceptionalism — the legacy of Nazism and the Holocaust. In recent years German colonialism in Southwest...

...Jonathan Bach © 2002 by Duke University Press 2002 Jonathan Bach is a postdoctoral research scholar at the Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy at Columbia University. He is the author of Between Sovereignty and Integration: German Foreign Policy and National...

... a drawing of characteristic clarity.3 Himmler, Göring, Jews, Lice, Goebbels, and Hitler complain: “We’re Running Short of Jews!” On the table, and History the Gestapo report: “2,000,000 Jews Executed.” In the upper-right-hand corner: “To the memory of my darling Mother, murdered by the Germans...

... and the English language. It makes a difference whether scientific, technological, medical, or cultural discourses are written and read in English, German, French, Mandarin, Myanmar (Burmese), or Togo, and this has an impact on university...

.... There weren’t many who were doing it in Germany then. But it became a very big thing. I remember the first time I gave a talk at the German Association for American Studies, in 1970, and I talked about what I still think is one of the best American books of the twentieth century, Jean Toomer’s Cane . And one...

..., Twenty Years later Miriam Hansen lke public sphere is the site where struggles are decided by other means than war. [ALEXANDER KLUGE] The belated English-language publication of German debates...

.... Dissident writers, authors, artists, and thinkers who were forced to leave Germany and other German-occupied countries during the Third Reich, such as Walter Benjamin (2006) , Simone Weil (2014) , Stefan Zweig (1943) , Hannah Arendt (1958, 1994 ), and Theodor Adorno (1951) , turned their situation...

.... And yet, so far I have not seen it answered any~here A year later, however, the German Enlightenment had produced two of the most important answers given in the debate. With the contributions of Mendelsohn in September and Immanuel Kant...

..., George Seferis, has noted. A country created as the result of German philhellenism and Slavophobia, on the one hand, and Brit­ ish and French realpolitik against the Ottoman Empire, on the other, Greece was established as a sovereign nation in 1832, after a war for independence that lasted roughly...

...Andreas Huyssen © 2000 by Duke University Press 2000 Andreas Huyssen is the Villard Professor of German and Comparative Literature and the Director of the Center for Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University. His recent publications include Twilight Memories: Marking...

... and appears frequently in serious journalism and scholarship in the West. The point might be clarified by using an analogy from translation itself. Trans- lating German into English is an act of conversion in the sense I mean it here; mastering German would...

... depict themselves as victims. How, then, do we assess these accounts? Assessing the relative culpability of perpetrators remains controversial, as shown by the furor over books by Daniel Goldhagen and Jan Gross, who detail how German gendarmes and Polish villagers, respectively, reveled...

... on matters of human life, according to their importance and their influence on the vocation of mans3 1. The German title is “Ueber die Frage: Was heat aufklaren?” first published September 4, 1784, in the Berlinische Monnrsschrifi; the translation is based on the reprint in Mendelsohn (1974...

... Identitaire . Paris: Fayard. ———. Forthcoming. Sortir du XIXème siécle. In L'État du monde . Paris: La Découverte. Clarence-Smith, Gervase. 1993 . Plantation versus smallholder production of cocoa: The legacy of the German period in Cameroon. In Itinéraires d'accumulation au Cameroun ,edited...

... tradition: From Volksgeist and Nationalcharakterr to an anthropological concept of culture. In Volksgeist as method and ethic: Essays on Boasian ethnography and the German anthro-pological tradition , edited by George W. Stocking Jr. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. ———. 2003...