Introduction: German in Its Worlds

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents iii
3. Acknowledgments v
4. Introduction: German in Its Worlds 1
5. Part I. The World in German Culture
6. Introduction to Part I: The World in German Culture 17
7. 1: Goethe’s World 22
8. 2: Embodying and Distributing World Literature: Goethe’s Novelle in the Context of the 1820s 34
9. 3: Weltdeutschtum: On the Notion of a German World Community from Schiller to Thomas Mann 58
10. 4: Nineteenth-Century German Travelers to Wales: Text, Translation, and the Manipulation of Identity 74
11. 5: “Weltliteratur aus der Uckermark”: Regionalism and Transnationalism in Saša Stanišić’s Vor dem Fest 91
12. 6: Postcolonial Studies in International German Studies: Postcolonial Concerns in Contemporary German Literature 109
13. Part II. German in World Locales
14. Introduction to Part II: German in World Locales 135
15. 7: German in a South African Context: From Colony to Decolonization 138
16. 8: From German Studies to Environmental Humanities (and Back Again): A Journey across Continents and Disciplines 155
17. 9: A Philo-Selfie Approach to German-Indian Studies 170
18. Part III. German Worlds beyond the Academy
19. Introduction to Part III: German Worlds beyond the Academy 191
20. 10: Towards a Socially Engaged Academy: Islam in German History and Its Relevance for Nonacademic Publics 194
21. 11: Theater without Borders? Tracing the Transnational Value of German Theater beyond Germany: A UK Case Study 219
22. 12: Tuning in to Germany: The BBC German Service and the British Occupation 239
23. 13: Reterritorializing German Pop: Kraftwerk’s Industrielle Volksmusik as a Transnational Phenomenon 257
24. Notes on the Contributors 281
25. Index 285