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{"title":"Modeling Motherhood in Weimar Germany: Political and Psychological Discourses in Women's Writing By Calvert, Katherine E, Camden House. 2023. pp. ix + 178. $99.00 (hardcover), $29.95 (ebook)","authors":"Claire E. Scott","doi":"10.1111/gequ.70002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/gequ.70002","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54057,"journal":{"name":"GERMAN QUARTERLY","volume":"98 1","pages":"74-76"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2025-02-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143726842","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Nation Building Through Translation: Kleist's “Earthquake” in Meiji Japan","authors":"Jonas Teupert","doi":"10.1111/gequ.12475","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/gequ.12475","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In this essay, I consider Mori Ogai's translation of Heinrich von Kleist's “Das Erdbeben in Chili” as a contribution to the linguistic reform debates in Meiji Japan, which centered on the unification of the spoken and written language. I analyze the syntax of Ogai's translation and argue that his stylistic reduction of the original transforms Kleist's text into reading material for popular education in the new Japanese nation state. Drawing on Yoko Tawada, I then illuminate the constitutive foreignness of Kleist's language, which resists national appropriations. Nuancing Tawada's claims, I show that Ogai's Kleist translation negotiates the tensions between various languages, an instance of what Lydia Liu calls “translingual practice,” and thus participates in the ongoing transformation of Japanese during the Meiji era. Ultimately, I contribute a new understanding of nation building through translation, emphasizing that this process embeds the nation in a transnational and translingual network.</p>","PeriodicalId":54057,"journal":{"name":"GERMAN QUARTERLY","volume":"98 1","pages":"24-40"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2025-02-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/gequ.12475","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143726792","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A Decolonizing Ear: Documentary Film Disrupts the Archive By Landry Olivia, University of Toronto Press. 2022. pp. 232. $75 (hardback), $75 (ebook)","authors":"Faye Stewart","doi":"10.1111/gequ.70000","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/gequ.70000","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54057,"journal":{"name":"GERMAN QUARTERLY","volume":"98 1","pages":"71-73"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2025-02-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143726791","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"anders lesen: Juden und Frauen in der deutschsprachigen Literatur des 19. und 20 Jahrhunderts. By Ruth Klüger, and Gesa Dane (Ed.), Wallstein Verlag. 2023. pp. 260. €26.00 (hardback)","authors":"Corey L. Twitchell","doi":"10.1111/gequ.70004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/gequ.70004","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54057,"journal":{"name":"GERMAN QUARTERLY","volume":"98 1","pages":"80-83"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2025-02-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143726841","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Therapists, Vending Machines, and Winding Roads: Race and Mental Health in Olivia Wenzel's 1000 Serpentinen Angst","authors":"Lorna McCarron","doi":"10.1111/gequ.12498","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/gequ.12498","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This essay explores the damaging effects of racism on the mental health of the Black German protagonist of Olivia Wenzel's autofictional novel <i>1000 Serpentinen Angst</i> (2020). Informed by close readings and decolonial trauma theory, this article shows how Wenzel forges connections on the semantic and formal levels of the text between the social conditions affecting people of color living in Germany and her protagonist's experience of anxiety and trauma. <i>1000 Serpentinen Angst</i> serves as a literary contribution to discourse surrounding the relationship between racism and mental health in the German-speaking world, while also considering the personal toll of disclosure through life writing.</p>","PeriodicalId":54057,"journal":{"name":"GERMAN QUARTERLY","volume":"98 1","pages":"41-53"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2025-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143726816","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Singing Community in Martin Luther's Kirchenlieder","authors":"Evan Strouss","doi":"10.1111/gequ.12499","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/gequ.12499","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In this essay, I claim that Martin Luther's <i>Kirchenlieder</i> can be read as <i>Volkslieder</i>, a reading  which allows us to account for their function of consolidating identity through communal singing. Luther's songs, I argue, are activated in their being <i>voiced</i>—voice, here, understood in a non-metaphorical mode, as the material utterance of a singing community. These texts have often been understood as efficient vehicles of doctrine, but their role in calling a <i>Volk</i> into being remains underexamined. I begin by outlining Luther's theory of music and the voice's important role therein before closely reading key hymns in order to attend to their communal function. The <i>Volk</i> they implicate is, in Luther's time, not yet embroiled in nationalist ideology. It can, I argue, nevertheless be productively examined on the horizon of later nationalist identity, which I demonstrate in dialogue with early twentieth-century critics who take up these songs.</p>","PeriodicalId":54057,"journal":{"name":"GERMAN QUARTERLY","volume":"98 1","pages":"54-70"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2025-02-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/gequ.12499","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143726815","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Preface: German Quarterly Special Issue on Form","authors":"Hester Baer,&nbsp;Karin Schutjer","doi":"10.1111/gequ.12496","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/gequ.12496","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54057,"journal":{"name":"GERMAN QUARTERLY","volume":"97 4","pages":"454"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-11-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142862081","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Intertextuelle Verhandlungen. Zur Kafka-Rezeption in der afrikanischen Literatur","authors":"Nadjib Sadikou","doi":"10.1111/gequ.12483","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/gequ.12483","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;p&gt;In einem Brief an Oskar Pollak vom 27.01.1904 wirft Kafka folgende Frage auf: „Wenn das Buch, das wir lesen, uns nicht mit einem Faustschlag auf den Schädel weckt, wozu lesen wir dann das Buch?“ Ein Buch, so Kafka, müsse die Axt sein für das gefrorene Meer in uns (&lt;i&gt;Briefe&lt;/i&gt; 36). Eine solche kafkaeske Wahrnehmung der Literatur als „Faustschlag“ lässt sich in der Entstehung der afrikanischen Literatur dokumentieren: Aimé Césaire, neben Léopold Sédar Senghor und Gontrand Damas, Mitbegründer der in den 1930er Jahren in Paris entstandenen kulturphilosophischen und literarischen Emanzipationsbewegung „Négritude“, verstand Literatur als „arme miraculeuse“ (Césaire 31), als wundervolle Waffe, durch welche die damalige Schwarze Elite in Frankreich ihre von der französischen Politik abgewerteten kulturellen Identitäten aufwerten konnte. Vor allem Césaire und Senghor waren darauf bedacht, auf der Grundlage einer perfekten und profunden Kenntnis der französischen Sprache die „kolonialen Mythen“ anzuprangern (Riesz X). Bücher zu verfassen war bei den Schwarzen Eliten der Königsweg, den französischen Institutionen und Behörden die Vielfalt Schwarzer Kulturen zu zeigen. Künstlerische Beziehungen und Querbezüge zu Kafka lassen sich obendrein durch intertextuelle Elemente in vielen westafrikanischen Werken belegen. Leo Kreutzer hat am Beispiel von Kafkas Novelle &lt;i&gt;Die Verwandlung&lt;/i&gt; und der Erzählung &lt;i&gt;L'os&lt;/i&gt; des senegalesischen Schriftstellers Birago Diop demonstriert, „wie sich die Wahrnehmung literarischer Texte aus zwei kulturell sehr unterschiedlichen Kontexten durch die Inszenierung von ‚regards croisés‘ und durch eine interkulturell ‚doppelblickende Lektüre‘ zwischen ihnen erweitern kann“ (Kreutzer 60–61).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Am Beispiel des Romans &lt;i&gt;Le regard du Roi&lt;/i&gt; (&lt;i&gt;Der Blick des Königs&lt;/i&gt;) des guineischen Schriftstellers Camara Laye (1928-1980) möchte ich einige intertextuelle Bezüge bzw. Aspekte der „Absorption und Transformation“ (Kristeva 347) von Kafkas Roman &lt;i&gt;Das Schloß&lt;/i&gt; aufzeigen. Camara Laye ist deswegen für die frankophone afrikanische Literatur relevant, weil seine Romane als unverzichtbare Werke der afrikanischen Gegenwartsliteratur eingestuft werden können. Bereits das von Laye ausgewählte Epigraph für den Roman &lt;i&gt;Le regard du roi&lt;/i&gt;, nämlich „[…] Le Seigneur passera dans le couloir regardera le prisonnier et dira: - Celui-ci, il ne faut pas l´enfermer à nouveau: il vient à moi“ (Laye, &lt;i&gt;Le regard&lt;/i&gt; 3) ist ein Zitat von Kafka: „während des Transportes werde zufällig der Herr durch den Gang kommen, den Gefangenen ansehen und sagen: ‚Diesen sollt ihr nicht wieder einsperren. Er kommt zu mir‘“ (Kafka, &lt;i&gt;Hochzeitsvorbereitungen&lt;/i&gt; 81). In Anlehnung an Gérard Genettes Kategorien der Intertextualität könnte man Camara Layes Epigraph als „Paratext“ auffassen (Genette 11). Ähnlich wie in &lt;i&gt;Das Schloß&lt;/i&gt;, in dem das ganze Streben des Protagonisten K. darauf gerichtet ist, sich dem Schloss zu nähern und Zugang zur Schloss-Welt zu e","PeriodicalId":54057,"journal":{"name":"GERMAN QUARTERLY","volume":"97 4","pages":"536-539"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/gequ.12483","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142860244","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Sociality of Form: Camillo Sitte's Urban Morphologies","authors":"Margareta Ingrid Christian","doi":"10.1111/gequ.12485","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/gequ.12485","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article examines a text by a lesser-known figure of fin-de-siècle Vienna, Camillo Sitte's <i>Der Städtebau nach seinen künstlerischen Grundsätzen</i> (1889), tracing the relationship between urban form and social structure in Sitte's treatise. It identifies the key points of this relationship in terms of <i>causality</i>: the form of public spaces can determine the form of social life; <i>surrogacy</i>: the throngs of the places’ inanimate inhabitants, the statues and monuments, are placeholders for the missing human gatherings; and finally <i>displacement</i>: the thick sociality of community life is transferred onto a heightened relationality with urban forms. Sitte's text sublimates the social; it diffuses abstract social structures—density, relationality, connection—onto the spatial morphologies of the city. Ultimately, this diffusion results in a capacious yet weakened model of sociality.</p>","PeriodicalId":54057,"journal":{"name":"GERMAN QUARTERLY","volume":"97 4","pages":"490-505"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-11-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/gequ.12485","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142859926","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Meter Against Essentialism","authors":"Hannah Vandegrift Eldridge","doi":"10.1111/gequ.12484","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/gequ.12484","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Recent scholarship on poetic materiality has found itself caught between celebration of the way rhythm might link language and the body, on the one hand, and critiques of the way such a link can lead and has led to various types of essentialism, on the other. Rhythm has a long history of activating essentialist tropes of primitivism and savagery, which in turn see certain groups (children, women, the “insane,” or racialized others) as fully determined by sensory language and bodily rhythm. In the face of this history and its afterlives, I argue for meter as a resource to help readers and scholars of poetry identify and critique essentializing approaches while upholding at least the possibility of claims for the affective and somatic efficacy of poetic language.</p>","PeriodicalId":54057,"journal":{"name":"GERMAN QUARTERLY","volume":"97 4","pages":"455-471"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/gequ.12484","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142860148","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}