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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.
Sex has no history, but sexual science does. Starting in the late
nineteenth century, people all over the world suddenly began to
insist that understandings of sex be based on science. As Japanese
and Indian sexologists influenced their German and American
counterparts, and vice versa, sexuality, modernity, and imaginings
of exotified "Others" became intimately linked. The first anthology
to provide a worldwide perspective on the birth and development of
the field, A Global History of Sexual Science contends that actors
outside of Europe-in Asia, Latin America, and Africa-became
important interlocutors in debates on prostitution, birth control,
and transvestism. Ideas circulated through intellectual exchange,
travel, and internationally produced and disseminated publications.
Twenty scholars tackle specific issues, including the female orgasm
and the criminalization of male homosexuality, to demonstrate how
concepts and ideas introduced by sexual scientists gained currency
throughout the modern world.
Sex has no history, but sexual science does. Starting in the late
nineteenth century, people all over the world suddenly began to
insist that understandings of sex be based on science. As Japanese
and Indian sexologists influenced their German and American
counterparts, and vice versa, sexuality, modernity, and imaginings
of exotified "Others" became intimately linked. The first anthology
to provide a worldwide perspective on the birth and development of
the field, A Global History of Sexual Science contends that actors
outside of Europe-in Asia, Latin America, and Africa-became
important interlocutors in debates on prostitution, birth control,
and transvestism. Ideas circulated through intellectual exchange,
travel, and internationally produced and disseminated publications.
Twenty scholars tackle specific issues, including the female orgasm
and the criminalization of male homosexuality, to demonstrate how
concepts and ideas introduced by sexual scientists gained currency
throughout the modern world.
One hundred years after the Berlin Psychoanalytic Institute was
established, this book recovers the cultural and intellectual
history connected to this vibrant organization and places it
alongside the London Bloomsbury group, the Paris Surrealist circle,
and the Viennese fin-de-siecle as a crucial chapter in the history
of modernism. Taking us from World War I Berlin to the Third Reich
and beyond to 1940s Palestine and 1950s New York - and to the
influential work of the Frankfurt School - Veronika Fuechtner
traces the network of artists and psychoanalysts that began in
Germany and continued in exile. Connecting movements, forms, and
themes such as Dada, multi-perspectivity, and the urban experience
with the theory and practice of psychoanalysis, she illuminates
themes distinctive to the Berlin psychoanalytic context such as war
trauma, masculinity and femininity, race and anti-Semitism, and the
cultural avant-garde. In particular, she explores the lives and
works of Alfred Doblin, Max Eitingon, Georg Groddeck, Karen Horney,
Richard Huelsenbeck, Count Hermann von Keyserling, Ernst Simmel,
and Arnold Zweig.
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