Peter Lang Oxford is pleased to announce the latest publication in the Leeds-Swansea Colloquia on Contemporary German Literature series:
Re-forming the Nation in Literature and Film: The Patriotic Idea in Contemporary German-Language Culture
Entwürfe zur Nation in Literatur und Film: Die patriotische Idee in der deutschsprachigen Kultur der Gegenwart
Edited by Julian Preece
Oxford, 2014. 321 pp. £50.00
Leeds-Swansea Colloquia on Contemporary German Literature, Vol. 3
Series Editors: Julian Preece and Frank Finlay
ISBN 978-3-0343-1730-6 pb.
ISBN 978-3-0353-0556-2 (eBook)
In the year that Europe commemorates the centenary of the outbreak of World War I and the European Union faces a crisis of legitimacy, the national question is once again being posed across the Continent. This volume assesses how contemporary German-language writers and filmmakers have approached this troubled question over the last decade. It addresses whether the collective entity known as Germany should more properly be conflated with the Federal Republic, with its successful sixty-five-year history ('the best Germany we have ever had'), rather than the 'nation' with all its tainted connotations and corrupted concepts such as 'Vaterland'. Contemporary Germany is a product not only of its history up to 1945 but also of the process of understanding that history and acting upon that understanding since the defeat of National Socialism. Each of the sixteen essays collected here illuminates a different segment of a bigger picture, whose shape and shades are themselves evolving. Presented as a whole their purpose is to provoke further discussion among observers of the contemporary German-speaking scene.
In dem Jahr, in dem Europa den 100. Jahrestag des Ausbruchs des Ersten Weltkriegs begeht, und die Europäische Union eine Legitimitätskrise durchmacht, stellt sich in ganz Europa wieder einmal die 'nationale Frage'. Dieser Band zeigt Antworten von deutschsprachigen Autoren und Filmemachern aus den letzten zehn Jahren. Es wird gefragt, ob es nicht passender wäre, das unter dem Namen 'Deutschland' firmierende Kollektiv als 'Bundesrepublik' zu erfassen, und somit die Idee der 'Nation' mit all seinen Brüchen - bis hin zum verpönten 'Vaterland' - zu verabschieden. 'Das beste Deutschland, das es je gegeben hat' zeichnet immerhin eine Erfolgsgeschichte seit 65 Jahren. Das heutige Deutschland ist ohne Zweifel ein Produkt seiner Geschichte bis 1945, aber auch von Prozessen des Verstehens und der Verständigung über diese Geschichte seit dem Ende des Nationalsozialismus. Jeder der sechzehn Beiträge in diesem Band beleuchtet ein Fragment eines größeren Bilds, das selbst ständig im Umbruch ist. Als Ganzes sollen diese Beiträge die Debatte unter Beobachtern der heutigen deutschsprachigen Welt anregen.
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The Leeds-Swansea Colloquia on Contemporary German Literature series is the successor to the Bradford Series of Colloquia on Contemporary German Literature. Like its precursor, the Leeds-Swansea Series has as its focal point of departure a three-day, biennial colloquium devoted to a particular theme. The colloquia have been supported by a range of cultural institutions over the years including the Goethe Institut, Austrian Cultural Forum and Modern Humanities Research Association, enabling them to act as a forum for dialogue between Germanisten in the German-speaking world and established and aspiring scholars based in the UK, Ireland, the USA and Australia. It is of equal importance that a broad understanding of what constitutes literary writing is fostered. Thus while 'canonical' literary figures have always featured, there has been a commitment to new writing which has given rise to the first academic discussions in English of several significant contemporary writers.
The organising editors are Professor Julian Preece (Swansea University) and Professor Frank Finlay (University of Leeds) who work in tandem with an international Editorial Board.
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