Capitalizes on the ripeness of the German case for interdisciplinary investigation
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1. Why German Cultural Studies? 1(28)
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1. German Cultural Studies: What Is at Stake? 3(26) Irene Kacandes Part
2. What Is German Cultural Studies? 29(62)
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2. Interrogating Germanness: Whats Literature Got to Do with It 31(14) Angelika Bammer
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3. Whos Afraid of Cultural Studies? Taking a Cultural Turn in German History 45(18) David F. Crew
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4. Multiculturalism and the Study of German Literature 63(16) Arlene A. Teraoka
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5. Cultural Studies and Foreign Policy in a Strategic Alliance, or Why Presidents of the United States Should Learn German 79(12) Jeffrey M. Peck Part
3. Who Practices German Cultural Studies? 91(46)
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6. Learning to Stop Hating Germans: The Challenge of Journalistic Objectivity 93(20) Deidre Berger
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7. Born Later: On Being a German Germanist in America 113(14) Christian Rogowski
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8. Asking the Questions/Telling a Story 127(10) Norma Claire Moruzzi Part
4. What Was German in the Past? 137(70)
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9. Bach Revival, Public Culture, and National Identity: The St. Matthew Passion in 1829 139(24) Celia Applegate
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10. A Nation for the Masses: Production of German Identity in the Late-Nineteenth-Century Popular Press 163(18) Kirsten Belgum
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11. Consumer Culture Is in Need of Attention: German Cultural Studies and the Commercialization of the Past 181(8) Alon Confino
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12. Colonial Legends, Postcolonial Legacies 189(18) Susanne Zantop Part
5. What Is German Now? 207(148)
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13. Seit die Juden weg sind...: Germany, History, and Representations of Absence 209(18) Omer Bartov
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14. Schinkel and the Politics of German Memory: The Life of the Neue Wache in Berlin 227(30) Wallis Miller
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15. Stones Set Upright in the Winds of Controversy: An Austrian Monument against War and Fascism 257(30) John Czaplicka
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16. Economic Influences on Constructions of German Identity 287(10) Robert Mark Spaulding
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17. Living with Which Past? National Identity in Post-Wall, Postwar Germany 297(12) Laurence McFalls
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18. Dis-Membering the Past: The Politics of Memory in the German Borderland 309(24) Daphne Berdahl
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19. How American Is It? The United States as Queer Utopia in the Cinema of Monika Treut 333(22) Gerd Gemunden Part
6. How Do We Mediate the German Case to the Public? 355(34)
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20. The Future of Auschwitz: A Case for the Ruins 357(10) Michael R. Marrus
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21. The First Draft: Writing History for the General Public 367(10) Timothy W. Ryback
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22. Who Owns the Past? The Surrender of the Berlin Document Center 377(12) Geoffrey J. Giles Part
7. Teaching German Cultural Studies 389(60)
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23. Translation in Cultural Mediation and Pedagogy 391(8) A. Leslie Willson
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24. Cultural Studies, the Eighteenth Century, and the Uses of the German Classics 399(18) Burkhard Henke
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25. Interdisciplinary Teaching with the Case Study Method 417(14) Louis L. Ortmayer
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26. Teaching Students and Teachers of German Cultural Studies 431(8) Richard M. Hunt
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27. The Pragmatics of Studying the German at the Turn of the Century 439(10) Sander L. Gilman Part
8. Tools 449(88)
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28. How to... Classroom Handouts 451(38) A. How to Read a Poem 452(4) Judith Ryan B. How to View a Building 456(2) Wallis Miller Scott Denham C. How to View a Film 458(3) Gerd Gemunden D. How to Listen to Western Music 461(3) Jean H. Leventhal E. How to View a Painting 464(3) Jonathan Petropoulos F. How to Read a Play 467(2) Christian Rogowski G. How to View Performance 469(5) Heidi Gilpin H. How to Read a Novel 474(3) Scott Denham Irene Kacandes I. How to Read History 477(2) Omer Bartov J. How to Read Statistics 479(4) Laurence McFalls K. How to Use an Archive 483(6) Geoffrey J. Giles
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29. German Cultural Studies Course Syllabi: Sources and Examples 489(26) A. German Studies and the General Culture Course: The Stanford Curriculum 491(6) Russell A. Berman B. Culture and Society in Weimar and Nazi Germany: Harvard University Core Program 497(5) Richard M. Hunt C. The Rapproachement of History and Anthropology in Germany 502(6) University of Chicago Daphne Berdahl Drew Bergerson D. Survivors, Victims, and Perpetrators: The Literature of the Holocaust 508(7) University of Texas at Austin Irene Kacandes
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30. German Cultural Studies and the Internet 515(6) Daniel E. Rogers
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31. Practicing German Cultural Studies 521(8) A. Directories, Resources, Journals 521(1) B. Funding and Agencies 522(7)
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32. Selected, Annotated Bibliographies on German Cultural Studies and on Cultural Studies in General 529(8) Notes on Contributors 537(8) Index 545
