...John Engle Mostly dismissed as a trivial entertainment, Frederick Kohner’s Gidget: The Little Girl with Big Ideas (1957) is in fact a telling aesthetic and cultural document. University of Vienna PhD, Jewish exile from Nazi Germany, and successful Hollywood screenwriter Kohner empathetically...

...Fawzia Mustafa Set at the turn of the twentieth century, as Germany consolidated control over its East African colony, Abdulrazak Gurnah’s 1994 novel Paradise encompasses the last of the “Arab” caravan trading expeditions from the East African coast deep into the interior of the continent. In doing...

... that it documents. Copyright © 2020 Hofstra University 2020 diary Germany rape recovery World War II Midway through the diary of an anonymous female journalist, A Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in the Conquered City (1953), the diarist has a conversation with a Berliner who identifies himself...

... to the immediate post–world war period in Germany—that is, the last five years of the decade—manages to be both vague and lurid. Its strangeness, moreover, is linked to the fact that for all the focus the author brings to the years of the American occupation of Germany, the title itself is borrowed from a French...

... perspectives on the historical present and, in turn, possibilities for alternative political imaginings of the future. While it is not set in the antebellum South but in Germany during World War II, Clifford’s Blues nonetheless features a protagonist who is enslaved, and it explicitly invokes the history...

... espionage fiction, for instance, the “alternation between Nazi Germany, Russia, and East Germany as the site of the enemy is arguably less significant . . . than the change of focus to corruption within Western intelligence organizations themselves” (22). Revelations concerning traitors within the British...

... back to Schiller as well as to Rousseau, but Disney’s version of the total work of art visvis the rationalization and integration of social, cultural, and economic life in postwar America, though often compared to the regulation of cultural life in Nazi Germany, also sought to delineate...

... debates about totalitarianism have tended to focus on Europe during World War II or to compare the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany in a manner that precludes discussion of the racial injustice stemming from democracy’s entanglement with colonialism and the slave trade. Race and the Totalitarian Century...

...).The latter view, which Renan advocates in “What Is a Nation?” is that race, language, religion, and ge­ ography, while useful descriptors, do not determine nationhood. Renan rejects the notion, circulating in Germany under Bismarck and later ex­ 35 Carol J. Singley ploited by Hitler, that a nation...

...” (Ruyter 22, 57-66). Some of those adaptations eventually found their way to Europe in the early twentieth century— mainly to Germany and Russia, but to other areas as well. Preston does mention Delsartism in Germany (90), and she discusses more fully the arrival of Delsartean theories and practices...

... Woolf set out by car from Har­ wich, England, for a month-long tour of Europe, a trip that would take them through Holland, Germany, Italy, and into France. Prior to their de­ parture, Harold Nicolson, a member of the British diplomatic service and longtime friend of the Woolfs, had conveyed...

... own nationalist and authoritarian agenda that was distinct from the Nazi regime with which it collaborated. 11 Vichy was, like Nazi Germany, virulently anti-Semitic, and was compelled by what the proto-fascist commentator Charles Maurras described as a fight for France against the “four confederate...

... of the alienation effect and how Brecht used foreign China as a symbol for native Germany. Fi­ nally, between college and graduate school, I lived in Paris, a block away from the former residence of Zhou Enlai, but, aside from attending an exhibit at the Centre Pompidou called “Alors, la Chine,” the Tel Quel...

... as an animal causes the poet no psychic anxiety: such identification for an African American woman or for a Jew in Germany would resonate with prejudicial stereotypes from which Moore is free. (75) Lasker-Schüler instead uses gender doubling and cultural mixing in an extravagant play...

... the countries between Germany and Russia remained to a large extent a terra incognita , dominated by the Soviets who flagrantly violated the international wartime agreements. The American government therefore considered the area , not a particular country, to be a single problem called ‘Eastern Europe...

... in German reparations” (101). But whereas Dar­ lington may have been motivated to relax the conditions of Versailles by a sense of personal guilt toward his suffering friends in Germany, by the time of Suez, neither Britain nor America was above the methods that Darlington decries back in 1923...

... with an anecdote describing his father’s “hatred for the vicious monopoly capitalism that tramples the little man,” moves to discussing “the recent revelation of the horrors of Nazi Germany” and discredits critiques of “jewish [ sic ] financiers who have a stranglehold on the wealth” by explaining “that greed...

.... The city was celebrating the twenty-fifth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall and the disintegration of the former socialist bloc in the late 1980s and 1990s. Present at the event were Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel; Mikhail Gorbachev, the last Soviet president; and Lech Walesa, the leader...

... of imagination—most significantly in his earlier refusal to tell Margaret of Ruth’s bequest and later to grant the pregnant Helen leave to spend a night at Howards End before her self-exile to Germany. As the novel closes and Henry is forced by Dolly’s faux pas to acknowledge his dismissal...

... suggests that, for the wealthy elite of Britain, the memory of the empire lives on as part of the heritage of privilege. That Prince Harry wore a Nazi uniform suggests that although Britain and Germany were on opposite sides in World War II, there were similarities between them in their position...