German Studies Review (GSR) is the scholarly journal of the German Studies Association (GSA), the world’s largest academic association devoted to the interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary study of the German-speaking countries. Recent issues have covered topics from Alexander von Humboldt and postcolonial theory to Krupp housing estates in the Ruhr valley to the popularity of German gangsta rap. A peer-reviewed journal, GSR includes articles and book reviews on the history, literature, culture, and politics of the German-speaking areas of Europe encompassing primarily, but not exclusively, Germany, Austria, and Switzerland.
Volume 40, Number 1, February 2017Table of Contents
Articles
Transmigrant Literature: Translating, Publishing, and Printing in Seventeenth-Century Frankfurt’s Migrant Circles pp. 1–21 Johannes Müller
Herder’s Idea of Historical Childhood pp. 23–40 Taran Kang
Transnational Mercenaries as Agents of Argentine National Construction in Moritz Alemann’s Immigration Propaganda (1874–1908) pp. 41–60 Jennifer M. Valko
The Alps as Lebensraum—Cinematic Representations of the Alpine War and the South Tyrol Question in 1930s Germany pp. 61–77 Wilfried Wilms
Juristische und Epische Verfremdung. Fritz Bauers Kritik am Frankfurter Auschwitz-Prozess (1963–1965) und Peter Weiss’ dramatische Prozessbearbeitung Die Ermittlung. Oratorium in 11 Gesängen (1965) pp. 79–101 Kerstin Steitz
The Red Director: Karl Kayser and the Evolution of GDR Theater pp. 103–121 Kyrill Kunakhovich
“A White Lady is Like Gold for Us”: Economic and Emotional Dimensions of Kenyan-German Romantic Relations pp. 123–146 Nina Berman
Review Essay
German Colonialism and Imperialism from Bismarck to Hitler pp. 147–162 Volker Berghahn
Reviews
The Trans/National Study of Culture: A Translational Perspective ed. by Doris Bachmann-Medick (review) pp. 163–165 Jennifer Michaels
China und Europa. Sprache und Kultur, Werte und Recht ed. by Walter Pape et al. (review) pp. 165–166 Weijia Li
Orienting the Self: The German Literary Encounter with the Eastern Other by Debra N. Prager (review) pp. 167–169 Lee M. Roberts
Germany and China: Transnational Encounters since the Eighteenth Century ed. by Joanne Miyang Cho and David M. Crowe (review) pp. 169–171 David D. Kim
Kant’s Politics in Context by Reidar Maliks, and: Kant and Rational Psychology by Corey W. Dyck (review) pp. 172–175 Adrian Switzer
Gefühllose Aufklärung. Anaisthesis oder die Unempfindlichkeit im Zeitalter der Aufklärung ed. by Katja Battenfeld et al. (review) pp. 176–178 Edward T. Potter
Kleist. Vom Schreiben in der Moderne ed. Dieter Heimböckel (review) pp. 178–180 Nancy Nobile
Volk oder Religion? Die Entstehung moderner jüdischer Ethnizität in Frankreich und Deutschland 1782–1848 by Philip Lenhard (review) pp. 180–182 Ari Linden
Connected by the Ear: The Media, Pedagogy, and Politics of the Romantic Lecture by Sean Franzel (review) pp. 183–185 Ellwood Wiggins
Die Farben der Romantik. Physik und Physiologie, Kunst und Literatur ed. by Walter Pape (review) pp. 185–187 Sabine Doran
Musical Revolutions in German Culture: Musicking against the Grain, 1800–1980 by Mirko M. Hall (review) pp. 187–189 Martin Rempe
Romanticism, Origins, and the History of Heredity by Christine Lehleiter (review) pp. 190–192 Leif Weatherby
Trübsinn und Raserei. Die Anfänge der Psychiatrie in Deutschland by Dietrich Geyer (review) pp. 192–193 Rakefet Zalashik
Secularism and Religion in Nineteenth-Century Germany: The Rise of the Fourth Confession by Todd H. Weir, and: Antiklerikalismus in Europa. Öffentlichkeit und Säkularisierung in Frankreich, Spanien und Deutschland (1848–1914) by Lisa Dittrich (review) pp. 193–197 Anthony J. Steinhoff
Theodor Fontane. Ängstliche Moderne. Über das Imaginäre by Gerhard von Graevenitz (review) pp. 197–199 Sean Franzel
Modernism and Melancholia: Writing as Countermourning by Sanja Bahun (review) pp. 200–202 Helmut Illbruck
Norbert von Hellingrath und die Ästhetik der europäischen Moderne ed. by Jürgen Brokoff et al. (review) pp. 202–204 Rolf J. Goebel
Germany’s Second Reich: Portraits and Pathways by James Retallack (review) pp. 204–206 Isabel V. Hull
Murder & Counterrevolution in Mexico: The Eyewitness Account of German Ambassador Paul Von Hintze, 1912–1914 ed. by Friedrich E. Schuler (review) pp. 206–208 Giovanna Montenegro
Wir Unsichtbaren. Geschichte der Polen in Deutschland by Peter Oliver Loew (review) pp. 208–210 Jie-Hyun Lim
Durchhalten und Überleben an der Westfront. Raum und Körper im Ersten Weltkrieg by Christoph Nübel (review) pp. 210–212 Adam T. Rosenbaum
Violent Intermediaries: African Soldiers, Conquest, and Everyday Colonialism in German East Africa by Michelle R. Moyd (review) pp. 212–213 Martin Kalb
“Volksgemeinschaft” unter Vorbehalt. Gesinnungskontrolle und politische Mobilisierung in der Herrschaftspraxis der NSDAP-Kreisleitung Göttingen by Kerstin Thieler (review) pp. 214–215 David Imhoof
Irmgard Keun. Zeit und Zitat. Narrative Verfahren und literarische Autorschaft im Gesamtwerk by Beate Kennedy (review) pp. 216–218 Sara Farner Budarz
Watching Weimar Dance by Kate Elswit (review) pp. 218–219 Barbara Hales
Arnold Schoenberg’s “A Survivor from Warsaw” in Postwar Europe by Joy H. Calico (review) pp. 219–222 Pamela Potter
The Making of a Nazi Hero: The Murder and Myth of Horst Wessel by Daniel Siemens (review) pp. 222–223 Jeffrey Myers
Thinking and Killing: Philosophical Discourse in the Shadow of the Third Reich by Alon Segev (review) pp. 224–225 Jakob Norberg
Witnessing the Robbing of the Jews: A Photographic Album, Paris, 1940–1944 by Sarah Gensburger (review) pp. 225–227 Michael E. O’Sullivan
Inside Concentration Camps: Social Life at the Extremes by Maja Suderland (review) pp. 227–229 Johannes Schwartz
Literary Exiles from Nazi Germany. Exemplarity and the Search for Meaning by Johannes F. Evelein (review) pp. 230–232 Hiltrud Arens
Reluctant Meister: How Germany’s Past Is Shaping Its European Future by Stephen Green (review) pp. 232–234 Klaus Neumann
Sociability and Its Enemies: German Political Theory after 1945 by Jakob Norberg (review) pp. 234–235 Lutz Kaelber
The People’s Game: Football, State and Society in East Germany by Alan McDougall (review) pp. 236–238 Molly Wilkinson Johnson
Remembering Africa: The Rediscovery of Colonialism in Contemporary German Literature by Dirk Göttsche (review) pp. 238–240 Sabine Wilke
The Europeanization of Cinema: Interzones and Imaginative Communities by Randall Halle, and: European Cinema in Motion: Migrant and Disaporic Film in Contemporary Europe ed. by Daniela Berghahn and Claudia Sternberg (review) pp. 241–245 Christina Gerhardt
Contributorsp. 247