Project MUSE®: German Studies Review - Latest Articles
https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/552
Project MUSE®: Latest articles in German Studies Review.daily12026-05-15T00:00:00-05:00text/htmlen-USVol. 35 (2012) through current issueLatest Articles: German Studies ReviewTWOProject MUSE®German Studies Review2164-86460149-7952Latest articles in German Studies Review. Feed provided by Project MUSE®Masters of Food: Climate Crisis and Optimized Exploitation in an Atlantic Hinterland Before the Revolutions of 1848
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983097
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Wars, famine, and epidemics shaped the face of the German nineteenth century. "This was a century of revolution—1789, 1830, 1848, 1871—punctuated by uprisings, rebellions, and mass demonstrations."1 Particularly the harsh harvest failures 1845–47, which triggered the Atlantic wave of protests of 1848–50, took their toll on the poorer populations of Central Europe.2 Yet, even before the potatoes failed, survival in German lands was far from easy for the majority of central Europeans. Climatic shifts from 1800 onwards caused over four decades of hardship for roughly two thirds of inhabitants. Between Napoleonic invasion, pillaging, and debt payments from 1806, the active conflict until 1813, and the repeated
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-15T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/552/image/coversmallMasters of Food: Climate Crisis and Optimized Exploitation in an Atlantic Hinterland Before the Revolutions of 18482026-02-17text/htmlen-USMasters of Food: Climate Crisis and Optimized Exploitation in an Atlantic Hinterland Before the Revolutions of 18482026-02-172026TWOProject MUSE®1453272026-05-15T00:00:00-05:002026-02-17Ethnic Trust and Emotional Statelessness: Frustration among "Ruhrpolen" with the Polish Second Republic
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983098
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On January 6, 1920, members of the Narodowe Stronnictwo Robotników (Polish National Workers' Party) gathered for a meeting in Herne, a coalmining city in the western German Ruhr region.1 Occupying the primary subject of debate at this meeting was the question of emigration to the Polish Second Republic. In late 1918, after well over a century, an independent Polish state had formed again, beckoning thousands of potential citizens living in the industrialized Ruhr who had moved westward during the Kaiserreich (German Empire, 1871–1918) from Prussian territories, like the provinces of Posen and West Prussia, that now belonged to Poland.After a brief introduction, the head of the local party chapter turned the floor
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-15T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/552/image/coversmallEthnic Trust and Emotional Statelessness: Frustration among "Ruhrpolen" with the Polish Second Republic2026-02-17text/htmlen-USEthnic Trust and Emotional Statelessness: Frustration among "Ruhrpolen" with the Polish Second Republic2026-02-172026TWOProject MUSE®1252252026-05-15T00:00:00-05:002026-02-17History as Mourning, Memory as Melancholia: Weimar, Past and Future
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983099
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German history—the story of a continuous state of wretchedness.No period in German history lends itself to exploring the shape of the past more than Weimar. It is like every other period, only more so. It has much the same structure as any other time, with a recognizable beginning and end, neatly bounded by revolutionary violence. For Germans after 1918, life went on as before, even if persistent political instability and extreme economic crises made things seem confusing. Nor was it clear at the time that the Republic's demise would make possible world war and genocide. But then, it is hard to gauge the significance of change while you are living through it.In retrospect, the arc of Weimar's trajectory is easily
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-15T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/552/image/coversmallHistory as Mourning, Memory as Melancholia: Weimar, Past and Future2026-02-17text/htmlen-USHistory as Mourning, Memory as Melancholia: Weimar, Past and Future2026-02-172026TWOProject MUSE®1156302026-05-15T00:00:00-05:002026-02-17Mord und Todesqual in Etzels Hunnensaal: Albrecht Haushofers literarischer Umgang mit nationalsozialistischen Kriegsmythen und dem Mythos Stalingrad
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983100
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Am 7. Dezember 1944 kommt es zur Verhaftung des Schriftstellers Albrecht Haushofer durch die Gestapo. Der in Verbindung mit dem Stauffenberg-Attentat auf Adolf Hitler stehende Hochschullehrer für Politische Geographie und Geopolitik, ein ehemals enger Vertrauter von Rudolf Heß und freier Mitarbeiter der Dienststelle Ribbentrop, wird ins Zellengefängnis Lehrter Straße in Berlin-Moabit gebracht, in dessen Nähe er auf Geheiß von Heinrich Himmler in der Nacht vom 22. auf den 23. April 1945 zusammen mit siebzehn anderen Inhaftierten per Genickschuss exekutiert wird. Als sein Bruder Heinz später den Leichnam findet, entdeckt er am Körper des Ermordeten fünf beidseitig engbeschriebene Papierbögen. Es handelt sich dabei um
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-15T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/552/image/coversmallMord und Todesqual in Etzels Hunnensaal: Albrecht Haushofers literarischer Umgang mit nationalsozialistischen Kriegsmythen und dem Mythos Stalingrad2026-02-17text/htmlen-USMord und Todesqual in Etzels Hunnensaal: Albrecht Haushofers literarischer Umgang mit nationalsozialistischen Kriegsmythen und dem Mythos Stalingrad2026-02-172026TWOProject MUSE®1007572026-05-15T00:00:00-05:002026-02-17Heinrich Böll und der Realismus: Aporien, Zuschreibungen, Effekte und Konzept
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983101
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Was die Zuschreibung von Realismus angeht, ist das Feld der bundesrepublikanischen Literatur seit den 1950er Jahren eng besetzt, denn selbst für kaum miteinander vergleichbare Texte ist von ihrem Realismus und—was die Autoren angeht—von ihrem realistischen Schreiben die Rede: für Dieter Wellershoff von psychologischem oder utopischer Realismus,1 bei Martin Walser von einem "Realismus X,"2 bei Uwe Timm und der AutorenEdition von neuem politischen Realismus.3 Sie alle—wie auch Heinrich Böll—gelten als Schriftsteller, die sich durch ihren je spezifischen Realismus auszeichnen. Die mit der Zuschreibung von Realismus einhergehenden Semantisierungen erfolgen dabei in Form von mal identischen, mal ähnlichen, mal aber auch
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-15T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/552/image/coversmallHeinrich Böll und der Realismus: Aporien, Zuschreibungen, Effekte und Konzept2026-02-17text/htmlen-USHeinrich Böll und der Realismus: Aporien, Zuschreibungen, Effekte und Konzept2026-02-172026TWOProject MUSE®1018392026-05-15T00:00:00-05:002026-02-17Challenging "Old White Dudes' History": Remembering Germany's Colonial Past in Contemporary Comics
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983102
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Scholars working on a range of geographical arenas and time periods have praised comics for remembering difficult histories. From Art Spiegelman's Maus to Ta-Nehisi Coates and Brian Stelfreeze's latest editions of the Black Panther series, comics have increasingly been recognized as valuable sources that speak to both the present and the past.1 Studies in French and Belgian colonialism in particular have analyzed the ways in which both past and contemporary comic artists have addressed (post) imperial histories.2 Whether treating them as lieux de mémoire, objects of "counter-memory," "postmemory," or "postcolonial melancholia," they have begun to unravel the complicated relationship between contemporary comics
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-15T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/552/image/coversmallChallenging "Old White Dudes' History": Remembering Germany's Colonial Past in Contemporary Comics2026-02-17text/htmlen-USChallenging "Old White Dudes' History": Remembering Germany's Colonial Past in Contemporary Comics2026-02-172026TWOProject MUSE®1649462026-05-15T00:00:00-05:002026-02-17Multilingual Memory and Translingual Poetics in Contemporary German Jewish Literature by Soviet-Born Writers
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983103
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"Komisch, dass ich nun zwei Tätersprachen spreche und liebe. … Deutsch und Russisch, als Vaterjude aus der Ukraine. Noch dümmer, den Tätern die Sprache zu überlassen." (Strange that I now speak and love two perpetrator languages. … German and Russian, as a patrilineal Jew from Ukraine. Even dumber to leave the language to the perpetrators.) With these words, Dmitrij Kapitelman reflects on his linguistic affiliations in an essay first published in Die Zeit (2023), later expanded in his contribution to Wir schon wieder (2024), an anthology of 16 Jewish Stories edited by Dana von Suffrin.1 Russian—Kapitelman's first language—has become the language of the aggressors in the current war against Ukraine; German, which he
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-15T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/552/image/coversmallMultilingual Memory and Translingual Poetics in Contemporary German Jewish Literature by Soviet-Born Writers2026-02-17text/htmlen-USMultilingual Memory and Translingual Poetics in Contemporary German Jewish Literature by Soviet-Born Writers2026-02-172026TWOProject MUSE®707082026-05-15T00:00:00-05:002026-02-17German Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities Revisited
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983104
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Ten years ago, then GSR book review editor Carl Niekerk invited me to submit a review essay on German ecocriticism and environmental humanities. At that time, I looked forward to the greater refinement of our reading strategies and to an expansion of the scope of ecocriticism that would allow future German scholars to become vibrant conversation partners in the environmental humanities, broadly and globally conceived. It is now time to ask whether this greater refinement of our reading strategies and the expanded scope of ecocriticism have indeed materialized.My current review is based on three of the most recent publications, but they follow in the wake of other important studies, essay collections, and special
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-15T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/552/image/coversmallGerman Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities Revisited2026-02-17text/htmlen-USGerman Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities Revisited2026-02-172026TWOProject MUSE®216482026-05-15T00:00:00-05:002026-02-17A Politics of Melancholia: From Plato to Arendt by George Edmondson and Klaus Mladek (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983105
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George Edmondson and Klaus Mladek have made a major intervention into the study of melancholy, one that consists primarily of its long-overdue depersonalization and repoliticization. They state at the outset of their book, A Politics of Melancholia: From Plato to Arendt, that since melancholy "is an interpersonal condition rather than a personal one … it exists within the realm of politics" (2). In a prologue that might be better titled "Epistemo-Critical Foreword," and across chapters bookended by those mentioned in the subtitle and filled in by Hamlet (William Shakespeare, 1623), Woyzeck (Georg Büchner, 1837/1877), Sigmund Freud, and political economic theory, Edmondson and Mladek provocatively and convincingly
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-15T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/552/image/coversmallA Politics of Melancholia: From Plato to Arendt by George Edmondson and Klaus Mladek (review)2026-02-17text/htmlen-USA Politics of Melancholia: From Plato to Arendt by George Edmondson and Klaus Mladek (review)2026-02-172026TWOProject MUSE®88372026-05-15T00:00:00-05:002026-02-17The War People: A Social History of Common Soldiers during the Era of the Thirty Years War by Lucian Staiano-Daniels (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983106
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At the outset of The War People, Lucian Staiano-Daniels introduces readers to a microhistorical perspective centered on the personal histories of soldiers. Unlike the labels imposed by the outside world, such as "soldiers" or "mercenaries," these individuals identified themselves simply as "people" (1). They were "war people," shaped by the experience of war rather than defined solely by a military role. Through this distinction in naming, the author highlights soldiers' agency and emotional experiences as historical subjects, thereby redefining our understanding of the individual in the context of war.This book provides a social historical study of ordinary soldiers during the Thirty Years' War (1618–1648), with a
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-15T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/552/image/coversmallThe War People: A Social History of Common Soldiers during the Era of the Thirty Years War by Lucian Staiano-Daniels (review)2026-02-17text/htmlen-USThe War People: A Social History of Common Soldiers during the Era of the Thirty Years War by Lucian Staiano-Daniels (review)2026-02-172026TWOProject MUSE®82272026-05-15T00:00:00-05:002026-02-17Ein deutscher Revolutionär im Amt. Carl Schurz und der Niedergang der Minderheitenrechte in den USA der 1870er-Jahre by Julius Wilm (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983107
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In his book, Ein deutscher Revolutionär im Amt, Julius Wilm examines the political career of Carl Schurz, a man who has often been idealized in German-American historical memory on both sides of the Atlantic as a radical supporter of democracy and minority rights. Wilm argues that, although more recent historical scholarship on Schurz has complicated this portrayal, it has not always adequately taken into account the voices of Black and Indigenous Americans, nor has it had a significant impact on the popular memory of Schurz in Germany. Therefore, with this book, he sets out to write a corrective account through a focused examination of Schurz's statements and actions regarding Reconstruction and Native American
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-15T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/552/image/coversmallEin deutscher Revolutionär im Amt. Carl Schurz und der Niedergang der Minderheitenrechte in den USA der 1870er-Jahre by Julius Wilm (review)2026-02-17text/htmlen-USEin deutscher Revolutionär im Amt. Carl Schurz und der Niedergang der Minderheitenrechte in den USA der 1870er-Jahre by Julius Wilm (review)2026-02-172026TWOProject MUSE®77692026-05-15T00:00:00-05:002026-02-17Articulating Difference: Sex and Language in the German Nineteenth Century by Sophie Salvo (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983108
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In a welcome new book, Sophie Salvo traces how German linguists in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries anchored their conceptualization of language in the cultural codification of sex and gender, convincingly showing how language was rendered and naturalized as masculine. In doing so, she examines a vast range of texts, from canonical to lesser-known authors. She supplements her main corpus by engaging in comparative analysis with trans-European perspectives before 1800 and with modernist literature of the early twentieth century.Salvo's monograph adopts a literal-critical approach, drawing on the theoretical frameworks of Jacques Rancière and Joseph Vogel, to generate nuanced interpretations of philosophical
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-15T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/552/image/coversmallArticulating Difference: Sex and Language in the German Nineteenth Century by Sophie Salvo (review)2026-02-17text/htmlen-USArticulating Difference: Sex and Language in the German Nineteenth Century by Sophie Salvo (review)2026-02-172026TWOProject MUSE®82152026-05-15T00:00:00-05:002026-02-17Indian Philosophy and Yoga in Germany by Owen Ware (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983109
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This cogent work examines the German reception of Indian thought, unearthing much relevant and important material for growing fields of the history of transnational approaches, Asian German Studies, religious studies, and especially philosophy. It provides important insights into problems of reception by looking first at five early nineteenth-century post-Kantian Germans (Friedrich Schlegel, Karoline von Günderrode, Wilhelm von Humboldt, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, and Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling) and then six Indian philosophers from the turn of the twentieth century (Navina Chandra Pal, Rájendralála Mitra, Swami Vivekananda, Surendranath Dasgupta, Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, and Krishna Chandra
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-15T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/552/image/coversmallIndian Philosophy and Yoga in Germany by Owen Ware (review)2026-02-17text/htmlen-USIndian Philosophy and Yoga in Germany by Owen Ware (review)2026-02-172026TWOProject MUSE®89042026-05-15T00:00:00-05:002026-02-17A Companion to the Works of Adalbert Stifter ed. by Sean Ireton (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983110
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Edited volumes devoted to the work of Adalbert Stifter are a relatively common occurrence in German-language scholarship. In the last two decades, no fewer than four have appeared (most recently, Stifters Mikrologien, 2019), not to mention the invaluable Stifter-Handbuch edited by Christian Begemann and Davide Giuriato (2017). In American German studies, by contrast, no comparable volume existed until now. This scholarly lacuna is not due to any neglect of Stifter in the English-speaking world. In fact, there has been a notable surge in Stifter scholarship in recent years. His work is regularly discussed in articles in the top journals in the field and features prominently in recent monographs by Jason Groves
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-15T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/552/image/coversmallA Companion to the Works of Adalbert Stifter ed. by Sean Ireton (review)2026-02-17text/htmlen-USA Companion to the Works of Adalbert Stifter ed. by Sean Ireton (review)2026-02-172026TWOProject MUSE®83642026-05-15T00:00:00-05:002026-02-17Animal, Vegetal, Marginal: The German Literary Grotesque from Panizza to Kafka by Joela Jacobs (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983111
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Literary critics often examine works in which animals, plants, or inanimate objects feature prominently and find that the boundaries and hierarchies of humanism (as anthropocentrism) are blurred or abolished. These critics see in this the imagined possibility of a new form of intimacy, community, or interconnection, between entities that would otherwise be segregated—promising, then, a solidarity that might be extended to oppressed beings traditionally excluded from the fold of "the human." These moves can become predictable, raising suspicions of an ahistorical projection of the same desirable features onto one text after another.Against the backdrop of these scholarly conventions, Joela Jacobs's monograph Animal
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-15T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/552/image/coversmallAnimal, Vegetal, Marginal: The German Literary Grotesque from Panizza to Kafka by Joela Jacobs (review)2026-02-17text/htmlen-USAnimal, Vegetal, Marginal: The German Literary Grotesque from Panizza to Kafka by Joela Jacobs (review)2026-02-172026TWOProject MUSE®97682026-05-15T00:00:00-05:002026-02-17Otto Dix and the Memorialization of World War I in German Visual Culture, 1914–1936 by Ann Murray (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983112
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In Otto Dix and the Memorialization of World War I in German Visual Culture, 1914–1936, Ann Murray investigates the reception of Dix's war-related works and explores how they were perceived as shaping German collective memory of World War I. Murray traces Dix's artistic production from his time as a soldier during the Great War to his last major war painting, Flanders (1933/34–1936). She utilizes numerous archival and primary sources to reveal the disparate responses to Dix's war-related images. These highly subjective contemporary accounts were clearly influenced by the political and artistic agendas of their authors. By examining these sources and comparing select works by Dix to then-popular war art, Murray
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-15T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/552/image/coversmallOtto Dix and the Memorialization of World War I in German Visual Culture, 1914–1936 by Ann Murray (review)2026-02-17text/htmlen-USOtto Dix and the Memorialization of World War I in German Visual Culture, 1914–1936 by Ann Murray (review)2026-02-172026TWOProject MUSE®85522026-05-15T00:00:00-05:002026-02-17Katakombenzeit. Wilhelm Flitner in Hamburg 1929–1969 by Meike G. Werner and Rainer Hering (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983113
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This meticulously edited and carefully researched archival study of the German educational theorist and pedagogue Wilhelm Flitner (1889–1990) is the tenth of currently twelve intellectual biographies in the series Wissenschaftler in Hamburg, funded by the Hamburgische Wissenschaftliche Stiftung, honoring individuals who have made exceptional contributions to the University of Hamburg, the city, and larger national and international contexts in the areas of research and teaching. As its subtitle suggests, the book traces four decades (1929–1969) of Flitner's exceptionally long life and academic career. After a brief introduction by Meike G. Werner, Rainer Hering provides a detailed biographical description of
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-15T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/552/image/coversmallKatakombenzeit. Wilhelm Flitner in Hamburg 1929–1969 by Meike G. Werner and Rainer Hering (review)2026-02-17text/htmlen-USKatakombenzeit. Wilhelm Flitner in Hamburg 1929–1969 by Meike G. Werner and Rainer Hering (review)2026-02-172026TWOProject MUSE®92602026-05-15T00:00:00-05:002026-02-17Hermann Hesse's Global Impact: Past, Present, Future ed. by Ingo Cornils and Neale Cunningham (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983114
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Indem seit der Veröffentlichung des dritten und letzten Bandes der von Martin Pfeifer herausgegebenen Sammlung Hermann Hesses weltweite Wirkung (Bd. 1–3, 1977–1991) drei Jahrzehnte vergangen sind, ist eine Publikation, welche die Relevanz des Autors und die Wirkung seiner Werke vor dem Hintergrund und im Zusammenhang der Globalisierung des 21. Jahrhunderts und ihrer kulturellen Implikationen in den Blick nimmt, ein ebenso sinnfälliges wie überzeugendes Unternehmen. Konzeption und Anlage des Bandes basieren auf der These, Hesses Werke besäßen eine fortbestehende kulturelle, literarische und philosophische Relevanz. Dabei betonen die Herausgeber, dass der Begriff „impact" besser geeignet sei als denkbare
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-15T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/552/image/coversmallHermann Hesse's Global Impact: Past, Present, Future ed. by Ingo Cornils and Neale Cunningham (review)2026-02-17text/htmlen-USHermann Hesse's Global Impact: Past, Present, Future ed. by Ingo Cornils and Neale Cunningham (review)2026-02-172026TWOProject MUSE®97072026-05-15T00:00:00-05:002026-02-17The Nazi Study of India and Indian Anti-Colonialism: Knowledge Providers and Propagandists in the "Third Reich." by Baijayanti Roy (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983115
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Fascism and anticolonialism could be categorized as phenomena that are entirely exclusive of one another. However, it is a fact that, although there was little genuine interest on the part of the Axis powers in furthering anticolonial sentiment, their regimes continuously leveraged anticolonial movements to destabilize their enemies and fabricate an air of legitimate authority. Acknowledgement of this complicated relationship between anticolonial strategy and totalitarianism is necessary to discuss, as the book under review does, Nazi Germany's aspirations to usurp the theme of Indian independence and weaken the British Empire. In four chapters that serve as case studies of individuals and institutions working
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-15T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/552/image/coversmallThe Nazi Study of India and Indian Anti-Colonialism: Knowledge Providers and Propagandists in the "Third Reich." by Baijayanti Roy (review)2026-02-17text/htmlen-USThe Nazi Study of India and Indian Anti-Colonialism: Knowledge Providers and Propagandists in the "Third Reich." by Baijayanti Roy (review)2026-02-172026TWOProject MUSE®84712026-05-15T00:00:00-05:002026-02-17Thomas Mann's Antifascist Radio Addresses, 1940–1945 trans. by Jeffrey L. High and Elaine Chen, and: Was gut ist und was böse. Thomas Mann als politischer Aktivist by Kai Sina (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983116
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In October of 1940, the first of Thomas Mann's fifty-eight radio addresses was broadcast into Nazi Germany. At first, Mann's messages were sent by telegraph from Princeton to the New York studio of the BBC, cabled to London, and then read on air by Carl Brinitzer, a German-Jewish émigré. Mann soon informed the BBC that he would prefer to deliver the radio addresses in his own voice. He had moved to Los Angeles in March 1941, so he recorded his addresses at the NBC Studios in Hollywood. The wax disks were flown to New York, beamed by radio to London, and then played in front of a microphone that broadcast them into Nazi Germany. Exactly how many Germans dared to risk imprisonment or death by tuning into Mann's voice
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-15T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/552/image/coversmallThomas Mann's Antifascist Radio Addresses, 1940–1945 trans. by Jeffrey L. High and Elaine Chen, and: Was gut ist und was böse. Thomas Mann als politischer Aktivist by Kai Sina (review)2026-02-17text/htmlen-USThomas Mann's Antifascist Radio Addresses, 1940–1945 trans. by Jeffrey L. High and Elaine Chen, and: Was gut ist und was böse. Thomas Mann als politischer Aktivist by Kai Sina (review)2026-02-172026TWOProject MUSE®119842026-05-15T00:00:00-05:002026-02-17Surreal Geographies: A New History of Holocaust Consciousness by Kathryn L. Brackney (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983117
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On April 12, 1961, the New York Times featured two incongruous stories on its front page. The headline presented the news of Yuri Gagarin's monumental journey around the Earth as the first human to leave the planet's surface. Right beneath that headline, the paper displayed a large photo of a special courtroom built in the Beit Ha'am theater in Jerusalem, and a portrait of that trial's defendant, Adolf Eichmann. Kathryn L. Brackney's book, Surreal Geographies: A New History of Holocaust Consciousness, argues that this is more than just coincidental timing, that Holocaust memory belongs in the same analytical frame as cultural expressions of the Atomic Age, the Space Race, and twenty-first-century ecological
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-15T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/552/image/coversmallSurreal Geographies: A New History of Holocaust Consciousness by Kathryn L. Brackney (review)2026-02-17text/htmlen-USSurreal Geographies: A New History of Holocaust Consciousness by Kathryn L. Brackney (review)2026-02-172026TWOProject MUSE®84282026-05-15T00:00:00-05:002026-02-17Return and Circular Migration in Contemporary European History ed. by Sarah Oberbichler, Eva Pfanzelter, and Valerio Larcher (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983118
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The edited volume Return and Circular Migration in Contemporary European History contributes significantly to the historical study of return migration, the movement of migrants back to their places of origin. As the book's excellent literature review emphasizes, historians of contemporary Europe have tended to study migration as a one-directional process without attending to its circularity. As a result, we still know relatively little about the complexity of migrants' transnational lives and decision-making processes, nor about how the governments of host and home countries have mutually constituted migration policies. Studying this subject is often difficult, moreover, because return migration has rarely been
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-15T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/552/image/coversmallReturn and Circular Migration in Contemporary European History ed. by Sarah Oberbichler, Eva Pfanzelter, and Valerio Larcher (review)2026-02-17text/htmlen-USReturn and Circular Migration in Contemporary European History ed. by Sarah Oberbichler, Eva Pfanzelter, and Valerio Larcher (review)2026-02-172026TWOProject MUSE®84282026-05-15T00:00:00-05:002026-02-17Why Are You So Angry? Anger and Rage in Black Feminist Literature by Anne Potjans (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983119
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Der affective turn, der sich unter anderem in den Literaturwissenschaften seit den 1990er Jahren verstärkt etabliert hat, erweitert die Perspektive auf Emotionen und Affekt, da diese nicht länger allein als individuell, subjektiv und privat gesehen werden, sondern ihre gesellschaftspolitischen Dimensionen in den Fokus rücken. Ein selbsterklärtes Ziel von Why Are You So Angry? Anger and Rage in Black Feminist Literature ist, literarische und wissenschaftliche Schwarze feministische Perspektiven zu Affekt, die nicht erst mit dem affective turn entstanden sind, anzuerkennen und sichtbar zu machen (26). Dies gelingt Anne Potjans überzeugend, indem sie zeigt, "anger plays [an important role] in the creation of Black
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-15T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/552/image/coversmallWhy Are You So Angry? Anger and Rage in Black Feminist Literature by Anne Potjans (review)2026-02-17text/htmlen-USWhy Are You So Angry? Anger and Rage in Black Feminist Literature by Anne Potjans (review)2026-02-172026TWOProject MUSE®90962026-05-15T00:00:00-05:002026-02-17Das ›politisch Rechte‹ der Gegenwartsliteratur (1989–2022). Mit Studien zu Christian Kracht, Simon Strauß und Uwe Tellkamp by Nicolai Busch (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983120
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Topics that literary scholars may find unappealing or even worthy of condemnation frequently go completely unnoticed and unstudied. Nicolai Busch notes in this book that German literary scholarship, for the most part, has failed to come to terms with or, in many cases, even acknowledge the issue of right-wing literature, particularly in the present day. If right-wing literature is addressed, it is often presented more as a phenomenon of the past than of the present. Frequently, moreover, discourses of aestheticization and depoliticization contribute to the failure to address right-wing literature. Right-wing authors, in such analyses, are merely playing aesthetic games or challenging conventions. Karl Heinz
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-15T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/552/image/coversmallDas ›politisch Rechte‹ der Gegenwartsliteratur (1989–2022). Mit Studien zu Christian Kracht, Simon Strauß und Uwe Tellkamp by Nicolai Busch (review)2026-02-17text/htmlen-USDas ›politisch Rechte‹ der Gegenwartsliteratur (1989–2022). Mit Studien zu Christian Kracht, Simon Strauß und Uwe Tellkamp by Nicolai Busch (review)2026-02-172026TWOProject MUSE®87352026-05-15T00:00:00-05:002026-02-17Transnational German Film at the End of Neoliberalism: Radical Aesthetics, Radical Politics ed. by Claudia Breger and Olivia Landry (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983121
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In German Film after Germany (2008), Randall Halle describes the emergence of a new transnational aesthetic in German cinema, which developed from new modes of funding and production. Claudia Breger and Olivia Landry's edited volume, in part, serves as a follow-up discussion to this book, revisiting Halle's arguments about transnational aesthetics in the current political moment. The focus of the volume, however, is less on funding and production and more on political and aesthetic interventions of film during a time the co-editors describe as a transitional moment. The introduction and the various contributions engage in the necessary struggle to understand this moment and to seek new aesthetic expressions and
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-15T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/552/image/coversmallTransnational German Film at the End of Neoliberalism: Radical Aesthetics, Radical Politics ed. by Claudia Breger and Olivia Landry (review)2026-02-17text/htmlen-USTransnational German Film at the End of Neoliberalism: Radical Aesthetics, Radical Politics ed. by Claudia Breger and Olivia Landry (review)2026-02-172026TWOProject MUSE®81882026-05-15T00:00:00-05:002026-02-17The Afterlives of Weimar Berlin: Twenty-First Century Literature, Media, and Visual Culture by Jill Suzanne Smith (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983122
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Jill Suzanne Smith's The Afterlives of Weimar Berlin examines how hardboiled grand narratives and select tropes about the Weimar years shape contemporary cultural fascination with the era. The book's focus is the "stories of bawdy clubs, of sexual decadence and gender bending, of maimed war veterans, of the panic and the thrill that came with swift modernization and technological innovations, of economic precarity, of street fights between communist workers and brown shirts, of Nazis on the rise" (1). While maintaining a strong appeal to contemporary artists and audiences alike, such clichés risk enacting their own violence if left uncontextualized, uncomplicated, and underexposed to scholarly analysis. As Smith's
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-15T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/552/image/coversmallThe Afterlives of Weimar Berlin: Twenty-First Century Literature, Media, and Visual Culture by Jill Suzanne Smith (review)2026-02-17text/htmlen-USThe Afterlives of Weimar Berlin: Twenty-First Century Literature, Media, and Visual Culture by Jill Suzanne Smith (review)2026-02-172026TWOProject MUSE®86242026-05-15T00:00:00-05:002026-02-17