Fuechtner / Rhiel Imagining Germany Imagining Asia

Essays in Asian-German Studies
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-57113-869-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 136, 288 Seiten

Reihe: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture

This collection of new essays explores how Germany's imagined Asia informed its national fantasies at crucial historical junctures. It will influence future scholarly explorations of Asian-German cultural transfer.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fuechtner, Veronika

Rhiel, Mary

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Ost- & Südostasiatische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Deutsche Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Deutsche Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
East-West Globality and the European Mode of Film Production
Citizenship-Shifting: Race and Xing-Hu Kuo's Claim on East German Memory
Narratives of Transnational Divide: The Vietnamese in Contemporary German Literature and Film
Factories on the Magic Carpet: Heimat, Globalization, and the "Yellow Peril" in Die Chinesen kommen and Losers and Winners
Germany's India: A Critical Re-interrogation
Indians, Jews, and Sex: Magnus Hirschfeld and Indian Sexology
The Ambivalence of a Spiritual Quest in India: Waldemar Bonsels's Indienfahrt
Traveling through Imperialism: Representational Crisis and Resolution in Elisabeth von Heyking's and Alfons Paquet's Travel Writing on China
Measuring Asian-ness: Erwin Baelz's Anthropological Expeditions in Fin-de-Siècle Korea
The Tat Tvam Asi Formula and Schopenhauer's "Deductive Leap"
German Indophilia, Femininity, and Transcultural Symbiosis around 1800
Reading Genji in German: Reflections on World Literature and Asian-German Studies
Bibliography
Notes on the Contributors
Index