Transnational German Studies

Transnational German Studies offers a compelling contribution to the field of German Studies, offering both a clear account of its current identity in historical context and, crucially, a timely challenge to rethink the traditional boundaries of the discipline. Janet Stewart, Durham University This volume is a timely and important intervention in the field of German Studies. At a time when German Studies is perceived to be in crisis, with declining student numbers and the shrinking of university departments, it convincingly demonstrates how transnational perspectives offer to expand the discipline by imbuing it with critical new questions, and by encouraging reflection not only on what German Studies is today, but where it has come from, and where it may productively head. Anna Saunders, University of Liverpool

Rebecca Braun is a Professor of Modern Languages and Creative Futures and the Director of the Institute for Social Futures at Lancaster University. Benedict Schofield is a Reader in German and the Director of the Centre for Modern Literature and Culture at Kings College London.

Introduction Transnationalizing German Studies Rebecca Braun and Benedict Schofield Section One Language: Local and Global Voices 1. Translation, Transposition, Transmission: Low German and Processes of Cultural Transformation Elizabeth Anderson 2. Developing a Polyglot Poetics: The Power of Testimony and Lived Literary Experience Ulrike Draesner 3. German Writers from Abroad: Translingualism, Hybrid Languages, Broken Germans Dirk Weissmann 4. Collaboration and Commitment: German-Language Books Across Borders Charlotte Ryland Section Two Spatiality: Mapping Nations, Mapping Networks 5. Networks and World Literature: The Practice of Putting German Authors in their Place Rebecca Braun 6. Who is German? Nineteenth-Century Transnationalisms and the Construction of the Nation Benedict Schofield 7. Co-Producing World Cinema: Germany and Transnational Film Production Sebastian Heiduschke 8. Towards a Collaborative Memory: Networks and Relationality in German Memory Cultures Sara Jones Section Three Temporality: Experiences of Time 9. Its About Time: The Temporality of Transnational Studies Anne Fuchs 10. Transnationalizing Faith: Re-imagining Islam in German Culture James Hodkinson 11. Transnational Imaginaries: Place of Palestine in Gershom Scholem, Franz Kafka, and Early Cinema Nicholas Baer 12. Securing the Archive: On the Transience of (Latin) American German Identities Paulo Soethe Section Four Subjectivity: Ideology and the Individual 13. Radical Germans and Their Anglophone Interpreters: Exploring and Translating The Unconscious and Psychoanalysis Angus Nicholls 14. Patterns of Global Exile: Exploring Identity through Art Birgit Lang 15. Representative Germans: Navid Kermani and the German Literary Tradition of Critical Cosmopolitanism Claire Baldwin 16. Contrite Germans? Stuart Taberner Index