The Many Faces of Germany / / ed. by John A. McCarthy, Thomas Koebner, Walter Grûnzweig.

• MitwirkendeR: Bathrick, David,; Berman, Russell A.,; Birgel, Franz A.,; Buckley, Thomas,; Daemmrich, Horst S.,; Daniel, Ute,; Führich, Angelika,; Geyer, Michael,; Grünzweig, Walter,; Hermand, Jost,; Hohendahl, Peter Uwe,; Hopkins, Leroy,; Janz, Rolf-Peter,; Jarausch, Konrad H.,; Kaes, Anton,; Kirchner, Doris,; Koebner, Thomas,; Lehmann, Hartmut,; Lennox, Sara,; McCarthy, John A.,; McVeigh, Joseph,; Mommsen, Hans,; Peck, Jeffrey M.,; Remak, Henry H. H.,; Reulecke, Jürgen,; Scherpe, Klaus R.,; Seeba, Hinrich C.,; Stuhlmann, Andreas,; Zipes, Jack,
• HerausgeberIn: Grûnzweig, Walter,; Koebner, Thomas,; McCarthy, John A.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2004]; 2004
• Year of Publication: 2004
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (304 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --; INTRODUCTION --; Part I: Dialectics of Memory --; 1. Das Unvergangene der Geschichte. Zum Topos der Zukünftigkeit im Vergleich der Humanities und der Geisteswissenschaften --; 2. Totems and Taboos: Debating Nazi Legacies at the Turn of the Century --; 3. On the Necessity of Writing Poetry after Auschwitz: A Reassessment of Adorno’s Cultural Critique --; 4. Erinnern—Wiederherstellen—Deuten. Perspektiven der Vergangenheit in der deutschsprachigen Gegenwartsliteratur --; Part II: Mining History --; 5. Jüdische Identität und Antisemitismus im Werk Arthur Schnitzlers --; 6. Das Unsichtbare im Film. Zu Fritz Langs M --; 7. Hans Schweikart’s Das Fräulein von Barnhelm: Lessing Gets Drafted into the Service of the Third Reich --; 8. Das Glück im Kino --; 9. Das literarische Preisausschreiben der American Guild for German Cultural Freedom 1937–1940 --; 10. “Nicht auf Schlachtfeldern allein wird der Sieg der Demokratie entschieden”: Culture Wars in Postwar Austrian Radio --; 11. Brecht: The Poet and the Canon --; 12. Geschichte[n] von, mit und in populären Liedern. Anmerkungen zu einem kulturgeschichtlichen Dreiecksverhältnis --; Part III: Bilateral Understanding --; 13. The Challenge of American Historiography for Historians of Postwar Germany --; 14. The Seven Faces of Germany: Reflections on Continuities and Discontinuities in Recent German History --; 15. Jenseits von Verdammung und Verklärung. Plädoyer für eine differenzierte DDR-Geschichte --; 16. “Man kommt immer noch früh genug zu spät”: The State of the Art in Contemporary German History in the United States --; 17. Bismarck’s Great-Grandson: Upton Sinclair, Germany, and Cold War Paranoia --; 18. “Die Früchte Europas”. Wolfgang Koeppens Amerikafahrt --; 19. Zwischen Gestern und Morgen. Stefan Zweigs Begegnung mit der Neuen Welt --; 20. Literature and Science: A Bilateral View --; Part IV: Closures—Transitions—Openings --; 21. The Crisis of the Humanities in the United States --; 22. German Studies as an American Project: Provisional Reflections --; 23. Der “aufhaltsame Aufstieg” der Grünen und die zögerlich folgende Germanistik --; 24. Searching for the Father(land): Afro-German Literature’s Dilemma --; 25. New Models of Interdisciplinary German Studies --; 26. Goethe and Schiller after Adorno: Using the Past to See the Future --; 27. Globalization, Alternative Modernities, and the Future of German Studies --; 28. “The World Is Full”: Changing Discourses of Space and Place after September 11 --; Frank Trommler: Appreciations --; Frank Trommler—Publications --; Notes on Contributors --; Selected Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781789205978
• DOI: 10.1515/9781789205978?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by John A. McCarthy, Thomas Koebner, Walter Grûnzweig.

With the fall of the Berlin Wall and the shifting of American foreign policy away from "old" Europe, long-established patterns of interaction between Germany and the U.S. have come under review. Although seemingly disconnected from the cultural and intellectual world, political developments were not without their influence on the humanities and their curricula during the past century. In retrospect, we can speak of the many different roles Germany has played in American eyes. The Many Faces of Germany seeks to acknowledge the importance of those incarnations for the study of German culture and history on both sides of the Atlantic. One of the major questions raised by the contributors is whether the transformations in the transatlantic dynamics and in the importance of Germany for the U.S. have had a major influence on the study of things German in the U.S. internally. The volume gathers together leading voices of the older and younger generations of social historians, literary scholars, film critics, and cultural historians.