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Back to the Future - Tradition and Innovation in German Studies (Paperback, New edition)
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Back to the Future - Tradition and Innovation in German Studies (Paperback, New edition)
Series: German Life & Civilization, 68
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In the course of the 1970s, interdisciplinary German studies
emerged in North America, breaking with what many in the field saw
as a suffocating and politically tainted tradition of canon-based
philology by broadening both the corpus of texts and the framing
concept of culture. In the meantime the innovative impulses that
characterized this response to the legacy of Germanistik have
themselves become traditions. The essays in this volume critically
examine a selection of those past attempts at renewal to gauge
where we are now and how we move into the future: exile and forced
migration, race and identity, humanism and utopian thought,
solidarity and global inequality. A younger generation of scholars
demonstrates how reviving and refining the questions of yore leads
to new insights into literary and theatrical texts, fundamental
philosophical and political ideas, and the structure of memory in
ethnographic performance and photography. Looking back into the
future is a self-reflexive gesture that asks how tradition inspires
innovation, and it displays compelling evidence for the importance
of historically informed cultural research in the field of German
studies.
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