Germany from the Outside

Laurie Ruth Johnson is Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. She is the author of three books, including, most recently, Forgotten Dreams: Revisiting Romanticism in the Cinema of Werner Herzog (2016).

• Notes on ContributorsIntroduction Laurie Ruth Johnson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USAI: Reading German Cultural History Differently1. Finding Odysseus’s Scars Again: Hyperlinked Literary Histories in the Age of RefugeesB. Venkat Mani, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA 2. Between the Court and the Port, but never Part of a Nation: Friederike Brun’s Domesticated CosmopolitanismBirgit Tautz, Bowdoin College, USA3. On the Inside Looking Out: Fichte, the University, and the Psychopolitics of German IdealismLaurie Ruth Johnson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA4. Rewriting German Literary History from the Outside in: J.M. Coetzee’s Elizabeth CostelloDavid Kim, University of California-Los Angeles, USAII: Stories of Expulsion, Exile, and Displacement5. Looking for Heinrich Heine with Nâzim Hikmet and E.S. ÖzdamarAzade Seyhan, Bryn Mawr College, USA6. Between Times and Places: German Identity in Albert Vigoleis Thelen’s Refugee Memoirs from Spain and Portugal (31 August – 1 September 1939)Carl Niekerk, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA7. Writing Germany with Brazil: Julia Mann’s Memoirs Veronika Füchtner, Dartmouth College, USA8. From Vienna to the Midwest: Austrian Refugees and Quaker Rescue Efforts after 1938Bettina Brandt, Pennsylvania State University, USA9. Keeping Time: Trauma as Intimate Alienation in Hans Keilson’s WritingAnna M. Parkinson, Northwestern University, USAIII: Rewriting German Culture10. Tracing the Continual Present: Yoko Tawada and Vilém FlusserGizem Arslan, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA11. Mobilizing the Archive: Marica Bodrozic and Deniz Utl’s Unterhaltungen deutscher EingewandertenClaudia Breger, Columbia University, USA 12. Constructing an “Inside”: Transcultural Laughter Communities in Fatma Aydemir’s Ellbogen (2017) and Olga Grjasnowa’s Der Russe ist einer, der Birken liebt (2012)Lucas Riddle, Bowdoin College, USA13. Screening Urban Space and Belonging in Berlin: Contemporary Berliners in Sheri Hagen’s Auf den zweiten Blick/At Second Glance (2013), Ines Johnson-Spain’s Becoming Black (2019), and Amelia Umuhire’s Polyglot (2015)Berna Gueneli, University of Georgia, USA14. Bertolt Brecht’s Me-ti or the Aesthetics of Translation: Universal Love, Mutual Benefits, and TransienceChunjie Zhang, University of California-Davis, USA15. Clowns in Exile: Hamletmaschine and the (In)humanOlivia Landry, Lehigh University, USABibliographyIndex

Germany from the Outside is a significant contribution to interdisciplinary German Studies that owes its inspiration to new approaches in postcolonial and migration studies. With its emphasis on stories of expulsion, exile, and displacement from Goethe to Heine, from Brecht to Yoko Tawada, and from Heiner Müller to Özdamar, and with essays written by leading scholars, it will have a lasting impact on international Germanistik.