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Title Gender and Germanness : cultural productions of nation / edited by Patricia Herminghouse and Magda Mueller
Published Providence, RI : Berghahn Books, 1997

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Description vii, 344 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Series Modern German studies ; v. 4
Modern German studies (Providence, R.I.) ; v. 4
Contents The beautiful, the ugly, and the german: race, gender and nationality in eighteenth-century anthropological discourse -- Sophie La Roche as a German patriot -- Romantic nationalism: Achim von Arnim's gypsy princess Isabella -- How to thonk about Germany: nationality, gender, and obsession in Heine's "Night Thoughts" -- The Fatherland's kiss of death: gender and Germany in nineteenth-century historical fiction -- The challenge of "missing contents" for canon formation in German studies -- feminism and motherhood in Germany and in international perspective 1800-1914 -- "Truly womanly" and "truly German": women's rights and national identity in Die Frau -- The ladies' auxiliary of german literature: nineteenth-century women writers and the quest for a national literary history -- En-gendering mass culture: the cass od Zarah Leander -- Nazism as femme fatale: recuperations of cinematic masculinity in postwar Berlin -- Visualizing the nation: Madonnas and mourning mothers in postwar Germany -- Framing the Unheimlich: Heimatfilm and Bambi -- Rape, nation, and remembering history: Helke Sander's Liberators Take Liberties -- "Germany is full of German now"" Germanness in Ama Ata Aidoo's Our Sister Killjoy and Chantal Ackerman's Meetings with Anna -- Bodies for Germany, bodies for socialism: the German Democratic Republic devises a gay (male) body -- Patterns of consciousness and cycles of self-destruction: nation, ethnicity, and gender in Herta Muller's prose -- Germania displaced? reflections on the discourse of female asylum seekers and ethnic Germans -- GERMANIA: just a male construction? gender, Germanness, and feminism in Easr German women writers -- The price of feminism: of women and Turks -- Language is publicity for men, but enough is enough! -- The new Duden: out of date already?
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject German literature -- History and criticism.
Gender identity in literature.
Nationalism in literature.
Arts, German.
Gender identity in art.
SUBJECT Germany -- In literature. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008105262
Author Herminghouse, Patricia.
Mueller, Magda.
LC no. 97023739
ISBN 1571811125 alkaline paper