Category: General
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The Transatlantic Origins of Double Consciousness: W.E.B. Du Bois in Germany
Ellwood Wiggins traces the resonances of Du Boisâs double consciousness in Friedrich Schillerâs essay »On Naive and Sentimental Poetry« (»Ăber naive und sentimentale Dichtung«) and suggests that they have important implications for contemporary society.
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Transatlanticism and Translation
Sandra Richter on the imbalances of transatlantic cultural transfers.
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Transatlantic Uneasiness: Perks and Pitfalls of Crossing the Pond
Jan Behrs examines the academic career of the German-born Harvard professor Kuno Francke (1855â1930).
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Francis Daniel Pastorius: German-American Literature in the Early Transatlantic
Using F. D. Pastorius as an example, Hartmut Hombrecher explains why transatlantic research should always focus on the reciprocal nature of cultural transfer.
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Black Transatlantic Literary Studies and the Case of James Baldwin
Gianna Zocco on the role of imagology, intertextuality, and literary archives within Black transatlantic literary studies.
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Blickwechsel: On Transatlantic German Studies, from a Brazilian Perspective
Wiebke Röben de Alencar Xavier discusses the potentials and challenges of a transatlantic approach to German Studiesââânot only in Brazil.
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Transatlantic Archives and Transatlantic Literary Studies
Tim Sommer describes the appeals and challenges of dealing with the diasporic dispersal of literary papers.
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The Renewal of an Old Alliance
Nikolai Blaumer assesses the current changes in relations between Germany and the United States.
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Locating Books as Transatlantic Commodities
Corinna Norrick-RĂŒhl underlines the potential of Book Studies to offer insights into the research area.
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Carried by the Sea
David D. Kim on why transatlantic literary studies should be part of a global literary history that takes cultural, linguistic, religious, and international diversities into account.