{"product_id":"imagining-germany-imagining-asia-9781571135483","title":"Imagining Germany Imagining Asia","description":"\u003cb\u003eThis collection of new essays explores how Germany's imagined Asia informed its national fantasies at crucial historical junctures. It will influence future scholarly explorations of Asian-German cultural transfer.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe first collection of essays in the new field of Asian-German Studies, \u003ci\u003eImagining Germany Imagining Asia\u003c\/i\u003e demonstrates that Germany and Asia have always shared cultural spaces. Indeed, since the time of the German Enlightenment, Asia served as the foil for fantasies of sexuality, escape, danger, competition, and racial and spiritual purity that were central to foundational ideas of a cohesive German national culture during crucial historical junctures such as fascism or reunification. By exploring the complex and varied phenomenon of German \"Orientalism,\" these essays argue that the relation between an imagined Germany and an imagined Asia defies the idea of a one-way influence, instead conceiving of their cultural transfers and synergies as multidirectional and mutually perpetuating. Examining literary and non-literary texts from the eighteenth century to the present, these essays cover a wide rangeof topics and genres in disciplines including philosophy, film and visual culture, theater, literary studies, and the history of science. Ideally positioned to shape further contributions, \u003ci\u003eImagining Germany Imagining Asia\u003c\/i\u003ewill attract a wide range of readers interested in German, Asian, colonial, postcolonial, and transnational studies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Contributors: Sai Bhatawadekar, Petra Fachinger, Veronika Fuechtner, Randall Halle, David D. Kim, Hoi-eun Kim, Kamakshi Murti, Perry Myers, Mary Rhiel, Qinna Shen, Quinn Slobodian, Chunjie Zhang\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Veronika Fuechtner is Associate Professor of German at Dartmouth College. Mary Rhiel is Associate Professor of German at the University of New Hampshire.","brand":"Veronika Fuechtner","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48280379457787,"sku":"9781571135483","price":130.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/9781571135483.jpg?v=1772484899","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/imagining-germany-imagining-asia-9781571135483","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}