| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 274 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Chapter INTRODUCTION -- chapter WHITE SKIN, ARYAN AESTHETICS -- chapter Seeing through Skin -- chapter Interiorizing Whiteness: East Germany -- chapter Dreaming of Whiteness -- chapter BLOOD, RACE, NATION -- chapter Racializing Female Bodies -- chapter The Threat of Foreign Bodies: Blood, Flood, Contagion -- chapter Blood, Gender, Violence: Thinking the Nation -- chapter CULTURE, MEMORY, VIOLENCE -- chapter Decentering Violence -- chapter NOTES White Skin, Aryan Aesthetics |
| Summary |
Annotation German Bodies explores the cultural representations of German identity and citizenship before and after World War II, and offers a critical analysis of race, violence, and modernity in German history and contemporary German society. Uli Linke examines how Germans invested the body with meanings that had significance for the larger body politic and investigates how this fits within the larger consumer culture, social memory and the postwar democratization of the country. The book is divided into three sections discussing different aspects of the German cult of the body: Aryan aesthetics, as in the postwar obsession with white nudity; blood aesthetics, as in the demonization of immigrants as a blood-contagion; and cultural violence, as in the images of genocide and dismemberment evoked in political protests during German reunification |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-265) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Human body -- Social aspects -- Germany
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Human body -- Symbolic aspects -- Germany
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White people -- Race identity -- Germany
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Germans -- Ethnic identity
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National socialism -- Germany -- History
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Genocide -- Germany -- History
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
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Genocide
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Germans -- Ethnic identity
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Human body -- Social aspects
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Human body -- Symbolic aspects
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National socialism
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Politics and government
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Race relations
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White people -- Race identity
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| SUBJECT |
Germany -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85054613
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Germany -- Race relations.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh97007651
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| Subject |
Germany
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0203906616 |
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9780203906613 |
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9786610407507 |
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6610407509 |
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041592121X |
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9780415921213 |
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