Price loading...

University of Michigan Press German Orientalisms

Price data last checked 101 day(s) ago - refreshing...

View at Amazon

Price History & Forecast

No Price Data Available

Price history will appear here once data is collected from Amazon.

Price Distribution

No price data available for histogram

Description

Todd Kontje's German Orientalisms offers a fresh examination of the role of the East in the "Kontje has pulled off the amazing feat of a grand narrative: from the epic literature of the Middle Ages to very recent texts on the emerging multicultural Germany. Kontje's grand narrative, it should be noted, is not at all simplistic or reductionistic. He gets at the individual texts in complex ways, and he can tease out multidimensional features of the German texts' treatments of the 'East.' Nonetheless, he displays an enviable erudition and scholarship, tracing lines through centuries when most scholars today limit themselves to narrow specialties." -Russell Berman, Stanford University "Intellectually rigorous and conceptually nuanced, Todd Kontje's German Orientalisms is a valuable contribution to the debate on identity politics in German cultural history. Through an erudite and insightful analysis of the German fictions of a broadly defined 'Orient' from the Middle Ages to the present, Kontje illustrates how German literature situated itself within a 'symbolic geography,' whose coordinates are defined by both its representations of the Orient and its affiliation with the Occident. German Orientalisms offers not only an admirable synthesis of the scholarship on German linguistic and cultural nationalism but also sophisticated interpretive strategies for a better understanding of our perceptions and misconceptions of alterity." -Azade Seyhan, Bryn Mawr College "This is a fascinating topic, and the book opens new scholarly vistas. In an age of increased specialization, Kontje takes a macro view, looking at German literature almost from its beginnings to the present, from Wolfram to Özdamar. He also has the courage to link his well-researched work to topics like globalization, the culture wars, and canon formation. He doesn't merely proclaim literature's importance, he shows by example how the literary imagination-creative as it is, dodging dogmatism, and able to confound ideologies-can thrive in an era of cultural studies." -Sara Friedrichsmeyer, University of Cincinnati Todd Kontje's German Orientalisms offers a fresh examination of the role of the East in German literary imagination, ranging from the Middle Ages to the present. In its wide historical sweep, this book offers important new insights into many of the most famous writers in the German language, from Goethe to Thomas Mann to Günter Grass. Building on Edward Said's Orientalism-which defined Orientalism as a form of Western knowledge directly linked to imperial power-Kontje offers a more nuanced version as seen through the lens of German literature of the last thousand years. Said's focus was on British and French Orientalists-two nations with colonial interests in the East. Germany was different in that it had no stake in the Orient. Far from diminishing an Orientalist perspective, however, the absence of a German empire in the East produced a peculiarly German brand of Orientalism, one in which German writers alternated between identification with the rest of Europe and allying themselves with parts of the East against the West. Above all, Kontje asks how German writers conceived of their place in "the land of the center" (das Land der Mitte) and how their literary works help to create the imagined community of the German nation.

Product Specifications

Format
hardcover
Domain
Amazon UK
Release Date
26 March 2004
Listed Since
13 February 2007

Barcode

No barcode data available

Similar Products You Might Like

Deploying Orientalism in Culture and History: From Germany to Central and Eastern Europe (Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture)
94% match

Deploying Orientalism in Culture and History: From Germany to Central and Eastern Europe (Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture)

Camden House (NY)

£77.98 12 Jan 2026
Routledge German Orientalism - Middle East History Book
94% match

Routledge German Orientalism - Middle East History Book

Routledge

£122.61 19 Apr 2026
Orientalism: A Reader
93% match

Orientalism: A Reader

NYU Press

£74.00 06 Mar 2026
Germany and 'The West': The History of a Modern Concept
93% match

Germany and 'The West': The History of a Modern Concept

Berghahn Books

£61.57 24 Feb 2026
Citation and Precedent: Conjunctions and Disjunctions of German Law and Literature (New Directions in German Studies)
93% match

Citation and Precedent: Conjunctions and Disjunctions of German Law and Literature (New Directions in German Studies)

Bloomsbury

£91.49 27 Feb 2026
Reassessing Orientalism: Interlocking Orientologies during the Cold War (Routledge Studies in the History of Russia and Eastern Europe)
93% match

Reassessing Orientalism: Interlocking Orientologies during the Cold War (Routledge Studies in the History of Russia and Eastern Europe)

Routledge

£139.37 13 Jan 2026
Cosmopolitan Parables: Trauma and Responsibility in Contemporary Germany
93% match

Cosmopolitan Parables: Trauma and Responsibility in Contemporary Germany

Northwestern

£92.99 01 Mar 2026
The German Myth of the East: 1800 to the Present (Oxford Studies in Modern European History)
93% match

The German Myth of the East: 1800 to the Present (Oxford Studies in Modern European History)

Oxford University Press

£45.57 12 Jan 2026
Routledge - Walls That Remain: German Reunification History
93% match

Routledge - Walls That Remain: German Reunification History

Routledge

£127.62 28 Feb 2026
India: The Seductive and Seduced Other of German Orientalism: 39 (Contributions in Comparative Colonial Studies)
93% match

India: The Seductive and Seduced Other of German Orientalism: 39 (Contributions in Comparative Colonial Studies)

Praeger

£63.84 07 Mar 2026
Mass Media, Culture and Society in Twentieth-Century Germany (New Perspectives in German Political Studies)
93% match

Mass Media, Culture and Society in Twentieth-Century Germany (New Perspectives in German Political Studies)

MACMILLAN

£75.68 31 Jan 2026
German Diasporic Experiences: Identity, Migration, and Loss (WCGS German Studies)
92% match

German Diasporic Experiences: Identity, Migration, and Loss (WCGS German Studies)

Wilfrid Laurier University Press

£24.43 05 Mar 2026
Modern German Literature (Cultural History of Literature)
92% match

Modern German Literature (Cultural History of Literature)

Polity

£48.99 07 Mar 2026
Routledge From Orientalism to Postcolonialism - Asia History Book
92% match

Routledge From Orientalism to Postcolonialism - Asia History Book

Routledge

£140.69 17 Apr 2026
Global Germany Circa 1800: A Revisionist Literary History (Max Kade Research Institute: Germans Beyond Europe)
92% match

Global Germany Circa 1800: A Revisionist Literary History (Max Kade Research Institute: Germans Beyond Europe)

Penn State University Press

£39.55 06 Mar 2026
German Orientalism in the Age of Empire - Cambridge University Press
92% match

German Orientalism in the Age of Empire - Cambridge University Press

Cambridge University Press

£36.36 05 Mar 2026
Transnationalism and German-Language Literature in the Twenty-First Century (Palgrave Studies in Modern European Literature)
92% match

Transnationalism and German-Language Literature in the Twenty-First Century (Palgrave Studies in Modern European Literature)

Springer

£83.09 07 Mar 2026
Routledge Constructing a German Diaspora 1871-1914 History Book
92% match

Routledge Constructing a German Diaspora 1871-1914 History Book

Routledge

£125.00 15 Apr 2026
Imperial Germany Revisited: Continuing Debates and New Perspectives
92% match

Imperial Germany Revisited: Continuing Debates and New Perspectives

Berghahn Books

£88.44 24 Feb 2026
Navid Kermani: 3 (Contemporary German Writers and Filmmakers)
92% match

Navid Kermani: 3 (Contemporary German Writers and Filmmakers)

Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften

£42.57 21 Feb 2026
Envisioning Social Justice in Contemporary German Culture: 162 (Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture)
92% match

Envisioning Social Justice in Contemporary German Culture: 162 (Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture)

Camden House (NY)

£78.48 22 Feb 2026
The Routledge Handbook of German Politics & Culture
92% match

The Routledge Handbook of German Politics & Culture

Routledge

£152.14 03 Apr 2026
German Colonialism Revisited: African, Asian and Oceanic Experiences (Social History, Popular Culture and Politics in Germany)
92% match

German Colonialism Revisited: African, Asian and Oceanic Experiences (Social History, Popular Culture and Politics in Germany)

University of Michigan Press

£63.57 20 Feb 2026
German Colonialism, Visual Culture, and Modern Memory: 13 (Routledge Studies in Modern European History)
92% match

German Colonialism, Visual Culture, and Modern Memory: 13 (Routledge Studies in Modern European History)

Routledge

£140.40 11 Jan 2026