Germany from the Outside: Rethinking German Cultural History in an Age of Displacement
Laurie Ruth Johnson, "Germany from the Outside: Rethinking German Cultural History in an Age of Displacement "
English | ISBN: 1501375903 | 2022 | 368 pages | PDF | 4 MB
English | ISBN: 1501375903 | 2022 | 368 pages | PDF | 4 MB
The nation-state is a European invention of the 18th and 19th centuries. In the case of the German nation in particular, this invention was tied closely to the idea of a homogeneous German culture with a strong normative function. As a consequence, histories of German culture and literature often are told from the inside-as the unfolding of a canon of works representing certain core values, with which every person who considers him or herself “German” necessarily must identify. But what happens if we describe German culture and its history from the outside? And as something heterogeneous, shaped by multiple and diverse sources, many of which are not obviously connected to things traditionally considered “German”?
Emphasizing current issues of migration, displacement, systemic injustice, and belonging,
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