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ix Acknowledgments Chapter 3 was published in Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature in 2010, and parts of chapters 1 and 2 were published in South Central Review in 2006. I received a travel grant to conduct research in Germany from the PSC-CUNY Foundation in 2008 and a faculty leave fellowship from Queens College in 2007–8. My thanks goes to André Aciman, Ali Jimale Ahmed, Hilary Beattie, Helen Beckman Kaplan, Peter Brotherton, Clare Carroll, Nicole Cooley, Tamara Evans, Werner Hamacher, Carola Hilmes, Ingeborg Hoesterey, Sonny Hung, Andreas Huyssen, Andrea Khalil, Ruth and Jue Löffelholz, Charles Martin, Paul Oppenheimer, Victoria Pitts, Denis Reynaud, Philip Rupprecht, Talia Schaffer, Lauren Shaw, Cathy Shuman, Larry Sicular, Julia Sneeringer, Thierno Dia Toure, VeronikaTuckerova,ChristopherWinks,andAmyWinter;tomystudentsat Queens College and the Graduate Center; and to all my friends and family. I would also like to thank the anonymous readers for their helpful comments; my editor, Henry Carrigan Jr., for his faith in this project; and Anne Gendler for her editorial expertise. Above all, I would like to thank my husband, Gregg Wilson, without whose love and patience this book could not have been written; and my mother, the source of my inspiration. ...

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