Title: Becoming TransGerman: Cultural Identity Beyond Geography
Publisher: Peter Lang, 2019
Editors: Thomas O. Haakenson, Tirza True Latimer, Carol Hager, Deborah Barton
Abstract:
This book is a cutting-edge, interdisciplinary collection of essays by some of today's most forward-thinking scholars. The contributors explore the ways in which the prefix "trans" disrupts German identity and the identity of Germany itself with regard to national borders, historical limits, political institutions, social practices, and forms of cultural and aesthetic expression. The volume engages the multifaceted nature of "trans" - and a Germanness that defies geography - to explore how Germans and Germany are increasingly situated "beyond" limits. Collectively, these investigations reveal a radical discourse of Germanness, a discourse with significant implications for historical and contemporary German self-understanding.
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