Although German Americans number almost 43 million and are the
largest ethnic group in the United States, scholars of American
literature have paid little attention to this influential and
ethnically diverse cultural group. In a work of unparalleled depth
and range, Waldemar Zacharasiewicz explores the cultural and
historical background of the varied images of Germany and Germans
throughout the past two centuries. Using an interdisciplinary
approach known as comparative imagology, which borrows from social
psychology and cultural anthropology, Zacharasiewicz samples a
broad spectrum of original sources, including literary works,
letters, diaries, autobiographical accounts, travelogues, newspaper
reports, films, and even cartoons and political caricatures.
Starting with the notion of Germany as the ideal site for academic
study and travel in the nineteenth century and concluding with the
twentieth-century image of Germany as an aggressive country, this
innovative work examines the everchanging image of Germans and
Germany in the writings of Louisa May Alcott, Samuel Clemens, Henry
James, William James, George Santayana, W. E. B. Du Bois, John
Dewey, H. L. Mencken, Katherine Anne Porter, Kay Boyle, Thomas
Wolfe, Upton Sinclair, Gertrude Stein, Kurt Vonnegut, Thomas
Pynchon, William Styron, Walker Percy, and John Hawkes, among
others. Zacharasiewicz's careful writing and rigorous documentation
will appeal to scholars and students alike. This unflinching look
at German history and the image of Germans in American literature
is sure to invigorate a lively debate among scholars on both sides
of the Atlantic.
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