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Record Nr.

UNINA9910463445803321

Titolo

Germany and the imagined East [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Lee M. Roberts

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newcastle, U.K., : Cambridge Scholars Press, 2005

ISBN

1-904303-61-7

9786612035777

1-282-03577-0

1-4438-0419-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (219 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

RobertsLee M

Disciplina

327.0943

Soggetti

German literature - 19th century - History and criticism

German literature - 20th century - History and criticism

Orientalism in literature

Electronic books.

Europe, Eastern In literature

Middle East In literature

East Asia In literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Papers presented at the 12th annual Interdisciplinary German Studies Conference held Mar. 13-14, 2004, at the University of California, Berkeley.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

TABLE OF CONTENTS; LIST OF IMAGES; PREFACE; PART I; DIS-MEMBERING AND RE-MEMBERING THE GDR; MAKING NEW ENEMIES; LIEGT BOHMEN NOCH AM MEER?; THE SECRETS OF THE KAZABAIKA; PART II; HABERMAS AND HIS YUGOSLAVIA; IMAGINING THE EAST; INVITING BARBARISM; PART III; ORIENTALISM, EXPRESSIONISM, IMPERIALISM; NIETZSCHE'S ZARATHUSTRA; "CROUCHING TIGER" AND HIDDEN DESIRES; PART IV; "SO THAT ASIA CAN BECOME GREAT""; THE ORIENTALIST REFLECTION; BRECHT AND THE CHINESE EXPERIMENT IN THEATER; IMAGINARY TERRAIN OF GERMAN ORIENTALISM

Sommario/riassunto

German-speaking Europe is an array of images that have emerged from varied discourses about itself and its neighbors, and "Germany and the



Imagined East" revolves around the exchange of views on and in the vast construct called "the East." The world has been divided conceptually in countless ways, but the works in this volume treat aspects of Germany as both part of and also separate from any perception of an eastern border. From the former German Democratic Republic,"East Germany," to Òˆsterr...