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The Democratic Gap : Transcultural Confrontations of German Immigrants and the Promise of American Democracy.
Why has the promise of American democracy been so persuasive to immigrants despite prejudice regarding cultural inferiority, a history of slavery and genocide, violations of human rights, media manipulations, and imperial self-righteousness? How can we analyze, understand, and evaluate the response...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Heidelberg :
Universitätsverlag Winter,
2014.
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| Colección: | European views of the United States.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Table of Contents ; Preface; List of Publications under the Auspices of the European Association for American Studies; List of Illustrations, Musical Examples, and Color Plates; Acknowledgment; Introduction; I Transcultural Confrontations; (Dis)continuities: Re-evaluating the German-American Experience; Who Are We/They? National Identity, Patriotism, and Democracy; Nation qua Thing: Response Patterns to the Democratic Gap; Thrills of Citizenship: German Declarations of Americanness; II Unconditional Abolitionism: Charles Follen; Great Expectations: Freedom, Equality, and Fraternity.
- Foreign Meddlers: Between Integration and DissentRevolution or Reform: Charles Follen and David Walker; Summary; III Declarations of Emancipation: Ottilie Assing; Children of the Failed Revolution: Transatlantic Political Activism; Neither Pariah nor Parvenu: Between Domesticity and Independence; Performing Emancipation: Ottilie Assing and Sojourner Truth; Summary; IV Transcultural Pluralism: Winold Reiss; Inter-Cultural Fault Lines: American Vistas in Germany; Transcultural America: A Plea for Color; Unfinished Democracy: Winold Reiss and Alain Locke; Summary.
- V Staging Americanness: Kurt WeillSelf-Americanization: Performing the "Self" as "Other"; Imaginary Spaces: Patriotic Musicals; Theatricality of "America": Kurt Weill and Langston Hughes; Summary; VI Afro-German-American Dissent: Hans J. Massaquoi; Afro-German Vistas: The Racial Dilemma of Recognition; Transatlantic Double V: Politics of Afro-German Recognition; Nazi Jim Crow: Hans J. Massaquoi and Malcolm X; Summary; VII Holocaust Consciousness: Hannah Arendt; Unmasterable Future? Jewish-German Identity and the Fiction of Fascism.
- For the Sake of Freedom: Nay-Saying in the Shadow of the HolocaustTransatlantic Traumas: Hannah Arendt and Toni Morrison; Summary; Conclusion; Bibliography; Archives; Musical Scores; Primary German American Literature; Secondary Literature; Filmography; Index.