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{"title":"The Enlightenment: The Pursuit of Happiness, 1680-1790. By Ritchie Robertson. New York: HarperCollins, 2021. xxiv + 984 pages. $45.00 hardcover, $24.49 e-book.","authors":"C. Niekerk","doi":"10.3368/m.114.2.304","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3368/m.114.2.304","url":null,"abstract":"(2012), which argues that decolonization must involve the “repatriation of Indigenous land and life” and warns against using decolonization as a general term for social justice work. Moreover, the editors acknowledge that though this volume engages in critique, it also believes that “German Studies is a discipline worth reforming” and thus contributes to settler futurity, i.e., envisioning a future that upholds settler colonialism (2). However, following Gurminder K. Bhambra et al. (Decolonising the University, 2018), they also note that colonialism exists in multiple forms beyond American settler colonialism and turn to models of decolonization that view Western universities as key sites of colonial knowledge production and that aim to center nonWestern ways of knowing and learning. Finally, they focus in on language instruction, drawing on Claire Kramsch’s chapter in Decolonizing Foreign Language Education (ed. Donaldo Macedo, 2019)—a highly relevant collection in its entirety—which argues for the need to resist the neoliberal instrumentalization of language learning and to uncouple standard languages from colonial nations. Ashwin Manthripragada and Emina Mušanović’s contribution stands out for its thorough engagement with theories of decolonization, probing the limits of decolonial approaches within institutions of colonial power and settler colonial states. Manthripragada and Mušanović argue that U.S.-based practitioners of German Studies must confront not only the legacies of German colonialism, but also their own complicity in the ongoing territorial colonialism of the United States. Moreover, they question the possibility of bringing together diversity frameworks with Tuck and Yang’s understanding of decolonization; in this view, approaches to diversity, equity, and inclusion still involve dividing up the power and wealth of settler colonialism. At the same time, however, Manthripragada and Mušanović caution against applying North American discourses of settler colonialism to Germany and Austria, where an indigenous Germanic identity has historically been mobilized by white ethnonationalists to oppose immigration and legitimate territorial claims. Ultimately, they argue, a decolonial German Studies must either develop nuanced, context-dependent approaches to concepts of indigeneity, or turn to non-territorial models of decolonization not centered on native/migrant opposition. Through their work of “unsettling” (24), Manthripragada and Mušanović also evoke the limitations of reform and of German Studies itself. DDGC’s guiding principles, published on the collective’s website, also signal an openness to thinking beyond academic disciplines and the universities that house them, and it is here that the greatest potential for decolonizing may ultimately lie. But as instructors, researchers, advisors, program directors, and community members, we can work towards just, equitable, and decolonial education on multiple levels at once. Whether that m","PeriodicalId":54028,"journal":{"name":"Monatshefte","volume":"114 1","pages":"304 - 308"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45243762","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Resonant Matter: Sound, Art, and the Promise of Hospitality. By Lutz Koepnick. New York/London/Oxford/New Delhi/Sydney: Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. xx + 235pages + 50 b/w and 10 color images. $99.00 hardcover, $26.95 paperback, $21.56 e-book.","authors":"Rolf J. Goebel","doi":"10.3368/m.114.2.301","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3368/m.114.2.301","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54028,"journal":{"name":"Monatshefte","volume":"114 1","pages":"301 - 302"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44599136","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Domestic Disputes: Examining Discourses of Home and Property in the Former East Germany. By Necia Chronister. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, 2021. x + 223 pages + 19 images. $102.99 / €89,95 hardcover or e-book.","authors":"Joyce E. Bromley","doi":"10.3368/m.114.2.340","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3368/m.114.2.340","url":null,"abstract":"Breger films contemplating migration rising and of and critical engagements of and ag-gression by unfolding intricate configurations of layered, diverging affects in complex,","PeriodicalId":54028,"journal":{"name":"Monatshefte","volume":"114 1","pages":"340 - 343"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47935080","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Gentle Apocalypse: Truth and Meaning in the Poetry of Georg Trakl. By Richard Millington. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2020. xvii + 259 pages. $85.00 hardcover, $24.99 e-book.","authors":"Samuel Frederick","doi":"10.3368/m.114.2.322","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3368/m.114.2.322","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54028,"journal":{"name":"Monatshefte","volume":"114 1","pages":"322 - 323"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43922340","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Deutschsprachiges Nature Writing von Goethe bis zur Gegenwart. Kontroversen, Positionen, Perspektiven. Herausgegeben von Gabriele Dürbeck und Christine Kanz. Stuttgart: Metzler 2020. x + 347 Seiten. $59.99 broschiert, $44.99 eBook.","authors":"J. Goldstein","doi":"10.1007/978-3-662-62213-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-62213-1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54028,"journal":{"name":"Monatshefte","volume":"114 1","pages":"311 - 314"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/978-3-662-62213-1","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43665538","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Niegeschichte. Science Fiction als Kunst-und Denkmaschine. Von Dietmar Dath. Berlin: Matthes & Seitz, 2019. 942 Seiten. €38,00 gebunden, €25,99 eBook.","authors":"Simon Spiegel","doi":"10.3368/m.114.2.317","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3368/m.114.2.317","url":null,"abstract":"radikal modernisiert und sie mit Nietzsche in einer ,,transhumane[n] Posthistoire“ zu verorten versucht (151). Einen originellen Schlussakzent setzt der Verfasser mit seinem kurzen Blick auf eine Zeitschrift jenseits seiner Zeitgrenze 1989, ein zeitgenössisches japanisches Lifestyle-Magazin für Männer mit dem (lateinisch geschriebenen) Titel ,,Goethe“. Und man erkennt, was der Autor nur andeutet: Wenn Goethe hier als leibhaftiges Gesamtkunstwerk inszeniert wird, so scheint es, als sei die frühe (biographischhumanistisch-buddhistisch orientierte) Goethe-Rezeption der Meiji-Zeit von dieser Lebenskunstrevue für Erfolgreiche und Kreative gar nicht so weit entfernt. Damals wie heute dient Goethe in Japan offenbar nicht nur als Bildungslektüre oder germanistisches Textobjekt, sondern auch als Musterexistenz, Identifikationsfigur, westöstliche Ikone. Stefan Keppler-Tasaki, soviel lässt sich abschließend sagen, hat ein facettenreiches, informatives Buch geschrieben, das die erstaunlich wichtige Rolle Goethes in Japans Identitätsbildung und Kulturpolitik seit Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts von verschiedenen Seiten her beleuchtet. Es wird deutlich, dass Goethe in Fernost nicht nur ein hochgeschätzter, oft übersetzter und interpretierter europäischer Klassiker war, sondern auch, bis hinein in die Nachkriegsjahrzehnte, eine Art ideeller Knotenpunkt ost-westlicher Diskurse, diplomatischer Aktivitäten und nationalpolitischer Vereinnahmungen. Mit seinem metaphernund anspielungsreichen essayistischen Stil, der gerade auch im akademischen Kontext Japans goutiert werden dürfte, spricht Keppler-Tasaki über Fachkolleg_innen hinaus eine breitere, interkulturell interessierte Leserschaft an. Dass mit dieser Stillage eine eher historisch-deskriptive als theoretisch-konzeptualisierende Haltung einhergeht, sei aus literaturwissenschaftlicher Perspektive zumindest angemerkt. Dieser Einwand schmälert die Leistung des Buches kaum. Der merkwürdigen Titelfrage, ,,wie Goethe Japaner wurde“, steht man jedenfalls nach der Lektüre nicht mehr ratlos gegenüber.","PeriodicalId":54028,"journal":{"name":"Monatshefte","volume":"114 1","pages":"317 - 319"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42352003","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Die Vertikalen im klassischen Horizont. Schiller I Mapplethorpe. Winckelmann I Bernini. Goethe | Faulkner. Von Peter Ensberg. Wurzburg: Konigshausen & Neumann, 2020. 210 Seiten + 1 farbige Abbildung. $39,80.","authors":"Peter Höyng","doi":"10.3368/m.114.2.310","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3368/m.114.2.310","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54028,"journal":{"name":"Monatshefte","volume":"114 1","pages":"310 - 311"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49450440","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Wilhelm Meisters Erbe. Deutsche Bildungsidee und globale Digitalisierung. Eine Inventur. Von Heiko Christians. Köln: Bohlau, 2020. 426 Seiten. €35,00 gebunden oder eBook.","authors":"Gunhild Berg","doi":"10.3368/m.114.2.348","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3368/m.114.2.348","url":null,"abstract":"ulated field of German theater studies, she makes an original and persuasive case that the theatre of anger constitutes a genre of its own that is not synonymous with postmigrant or Black German theater. Landry’s impressive theorization of the politics of anger in performance nevertheless leaves some space for disagreement with regard to the questions of whether the verbal and physical expression of anger is the best way to incite anger and thereby move people politically, or whether misdirected anger can or should be taken up. Scholars drawing on other dramatic traditions—such as the Critical Volksstück, for instance—might argue that oppressed subjects might not always be capable of clearly attributing anger to racist injustice. Olivia Landry’s original study of the theatre of anger as a distinct genre makes an important and timely contribution to German studies, theater studies, and to postcolonial and critical race studies. Scholars and students in these fields will find much to admire in the way she brings these fields into conversation.","PeriodicalId":54028,"journal":{"name":"Monatshefte","volume":"114 1","pages":"348 - 350"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42296531","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Ungeheuer. Zur Unlesbarkeit von Stifters Aus dem bairischen Walde heute","authors":"Jann Duri Bantli, A. Mohnkern","doi":"10.3368/m.114.2.200","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3368/m.114.2.200","url":null,"abstract":"Wie kaum ein anderer im 19. Jahrhundert erzählt Adalbert Stifter Geschichten vom Schnee. Bekanntestes Dokument in diesem Zusammenhang bildet neben seiner in überarbeiteter Form in Bunte Steine (1853) aufgenommenen Erzählung Bergkristall ganz ohne Zweifel das erst posthum zur Veröffentlichung gekommene Prosastück Aus dem bairischen Walde (1866). Der Text, in Form und Entstehung auf den ersten Blick nur schwer einzugrenzen zwischen autobiografischem Bericht und Fiktion (vgl. Dusini und Schiffermüller), erzählt von einem Schneesturm, wie ihn Stifter selbst im November 1866 in Lackerhäuser bei einem seiner Aufenthalte im Bayerischen Wald erlebt hatte. Dabei kreist das Stück auch um die schwierige und womöglich misslingende Bestimmung der Grenze zwischen einer ungehegten und zumal formlosen Welt des Schnees, von der versucht wird, sie in dem „Bild des weißen Ungeheuers‟ (SW 15, 353) einzufangen, und dem Versuch ihrer kulturellen Bewältigung, die bei Stifter, dem Schriftsteller der „Häuslichkeit‟1, zumeist einen spezifischen Schauplatz hat: die Wohnung. Symptomatisch für den Versuch dieser Grenzbestimmung ist nämlich nicht nur am Werk, sondern auch am Leben Stifters das Bedürfnis, sich wohnlich einzurichten und jene Grenze zwischen ,drinnen‘ und ,draußen‘, zwischen ,Kultur‘ und ,Natur‘, zwischen Wohnung und Welt einzuziehen, was zugleich so etwas wie Ordnung und Einhegung bedeutet.","PeriodicalId":54028,"journal":{"name":"Monatshefte","volume":"114 1","pages":"200 - 219"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43678925","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Jews Out of the Question: A Critique of Anti-Anti-Semitism. By Elad Lapidot. Albany, N.Y.: SUNY Press, 2020. viii + 332 pages. $95.00 hardcover, $33.95 paperback.","authors":"Adam Y. Stern","doi":"10.3368/m.114.2.298","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3368/m.114.2.298","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54028,"journal":{"name":"Monatshefte","volume":"114 1","pages":"298 - 300"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44748069","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}