This collection of new essays explores how Germany's imagined Asia
informed its national fantasies at crucial historical junctures. It
will influence future scholarly explorations of Asian-German
cultural transfer. The first collection of essays in the new field
of Asian-German Studies, Imagining Germany Imagining Asia
demonstrates that Germany and Asia have always shared cultural
spaces. Indeed, since the time of the German Enlightenment, Asia
served as the foil for fantasies of sexuality, escape, danger,
competition, and racial and spiritual purity that were central to
foundational ideas of a cohesive German national culture during
crucial historical junctures such as fascism or reunification. By
exploring the complex and varied phenomenon of German
"Orientalism," these essays argue that the relation between an
imagined Germany and an imagined Asia defies the idea of a one-way
influence, instead conceiving of their cultural transfers and
synergies as multidirectional and mutually perpetuating. Examining
literary and non-literary texts from the eighteenth century to the
present, these essays cover a wide rangeof topics and genres in
disciplines including philosophy, film and visual culture, theater,
literary studies, and the history of science. Ideally positioned to
shape further contributions, Imagining Germany Imagining Asiawill
attract a wide range of readers interested in German, Asian,
colonial, postcolonial, and transnational studies. Contributors:
Sai Bhatawadekar, Petra Fachinger, Veronika Fuechtner, Randall
Halle, David D. Kim, Hoi-eun Kim, Kamakshi Murti, Perry Myers, Mary
Rhiel, Qinna Shen, Quinn Slobodian, Chunjie Zhang Veronika
Fuechtner is Associate Professor of German at Dartmouth College.
Mary Rhiel is Associate Professor of German at the University of
New Hampshire.
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