Becoming TransGerman
Cultural Identity Beyond Geography
Thomas O Haakenson editor Carol Hager editor Christian Weikop editor Tirza True Latimer editor Deborah Barton editor
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Peter Lang International Academic Publishers
Published:22nd Feb '19
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This book is a cutting-edge, interdisciplinary collection of essays by some of today’s most forward-thinking scholars. The contributors explore the ways in which the prefix «trans» erupts German identity and the identity of Germany itself. The volume calls German identity into question and examines the ways in which the prefix «trans» is deployed to these ends in relation to national borders, historical limits, political institutions, social practices, and forms of cultural and aesthetic expression. The collection reveals the ways in which the transcendence of national, corporeal, disciplinary, and institutional limits is embodied by the use of the prefix «trans»– and has the potential to do so much more.
The volume engages the multifaceted nature of «trans»– and a Germanness that defies geography – to explore how Germans and Germany are increasingly situated «beyond» limits. Collectively, these investigations reveal a radical discourse of Germanness, a discourse with significant implications for historical and contemporary German self-understanding.The book asks the following: What is German identity beyond geography? And what are the promises and perils for Germany, and German identity, in becoming transGerman?
«This engaging and groundbreaking book highlights how creative difference, non-stasis, and polyvalent identity – across a number of trans-Germanic medial texts and cultural contexts –might reconfigure today’s reactionary world into a new revolutionary place of social and political emancipation.» (Mirko M. Hall, Professor and Chair of Languages, Cultures, and Literatures, Converse College)
ISBN: 9781788744263
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 549g
326 pages
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