{"title":"Minority Discourses in Germany since 1990 ed. by Ela Gezen, Priscilla Layne, and Jonathan Skolnik (review)","authors":"P. Simpson","doi":"10.1353/gsr.2023.0030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/gsr.2023.0030","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43954,"journal":{"name":"German Studies Review","volume":"46 1","pages":"181 - 183"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49072916","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Bringing Asian German Film Studies into Focus","authors":"Zachary Fitzpatrick","doi":"10.1353/gsr.2023.0012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/gsr.2023.0012","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43954,"journal":{"name":"German Studies Review","volume":"46 1","pages":"134 - 136"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41914799","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
abstract:This article examines sex and romance between Chinese men and German women in Hamburg from 1933 to 1947. This study is a microhistory of the ill-fated engagement between Lam See-Woh, a thirty-one-year-old from Canton, China, and sixteen-year-old Irmgard Tschöpe in 1946. Through exploring their relationship, this piece untangles the various conceptions of citizenship, foreignness, class, gender, and sexuality that factored into the racialization of Chinese people in Germany. This article illustrates that Chinese men provided protection for German women, who were faced with uncertainty, deprivation, and even persecution, both during and after the war.
{"title":"The Trial of Lam See-Woh: Chinese Men and German Women in Hamburg, 1933–1947","authors":"Kimberly D. Cheng","doi":"10.1353/gsr.2023.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/gsr.2023.0001","url":null,"abstract":"abstract:This article examines sex and romance between Chinese men and German women in Hamburg from 1933 to 1947. This study is a microhistory of the ill-fated engagement between Lam See-Woh, a thirty-one-year-old from Canton, China, and sixteen-year-old Irmgard Tschöpe in 1946. Through exploring their relationship, this piece untangles the various conceptions of citizenship, foreignness, class, gender, and sexuality that factored into the racialization of Chinese people in Germany. This article illustrates that Chinese men provided protection for German women, who were faced with uncertainty, deprivation, and even persecution, both during and after the war.","PeriodicalId":43954,"journal":{"name":"German Studies Review","volume":"46 1","pages":"17 - 34"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43187085","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Seen together, these research projects enrich ongoing debates about and interrogations of Germaneness, identity, and shared values in contemporary Germany. They show, we believe, how the use of new technologies in the production and the analysis of literature can yield new insights. They express urgent demands for German-speaking culture to be more inclusive and, in turn, for German-studies scholars to support their plea. Many of them reflect carefully on their own subject positions and identities in conjunction with the subjects and subject matters they study, thus contributing to the GSA’s efforts toward social justice and inclusion. These are approaches from which we can all learn, no matter our career stage. As Toni Morrison once said: “If there’s a book you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.”1 These young scholars show us the way. We look forward to the next “Food for Thought” luncheon at the 2023 GSA in Montreal.
{"title":"Why We Need to Read Black German Literature More Broadly in German Studies","authors":"Jeannette Oholi","doi":"10.1353/gsr.2023.0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/gsr.2023.0008","url":null,"abstract":"Seen together, these research projects enrich ongoing debates about and interrogations of Germaneness, identity, and shared values in contemporary Germany. They show, we believe, how the use of new technologies in the production and the analysis of literature can yield new insights. They express urgent demands for German-speaking culture to be more inclusive and, in turn, for German-studies scholars to support their plea. Many of them reflect carefully on their own subject positions and identities in conjunction with the subjects and subject matters they study, thus contributing to the GSA’s efforts toward social justice and inclusion. These are approaches from which we can all learn, no matter our career stage. As Toni Morrison once said: “If there’s a book you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.”1 These young scholars show us the way. We look forward to the next “Food for Thought” luncheon at the 2023 GSA in Montreal.","PeriodicalId":43954,"journal":{"name":"German Studies Review","volume":"46 1","pages":"125 - 127"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49012223","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
tion of East German society by the SED. Eedy amends this model by adopting the concept of an “ersatz public sphere” where the critical public opinion that Jürgen Habermas associates with the public sphere finds alternative forms of expression within the privacy of the domestic space, and where Eigensinn—a mechanism that allowed East German citizens to normalize their domestic space by conceiving of it as outside of the reach of state-controlled media—plays an important role. With Mary Fulbrook, Eedy attributes to the GDR, as a niche society, a stabilizing effect for the SED regime, which for this reason unofficially allowed for criticism articulated in a permissible way (e.g., through civic petitions) from within the private sphere. Diffusion and consumption of children’s comic books fall under this category—and Eedy aptly documents East German comic books as sites of contested power where the regime’s efforts at complete oversight were countered by the comics’ creators (for instance, in the haphazard, anti-teleological time-travel of Mosaik’s comic book characters, the Digedags) or the children themselves (by using comic books to articulate their experiences of childhood under GDR socialism). By analyzing letters written to the FDJ, the third chapter, “Power, Eigensinn, and the Construction of Space through Comics,” examines further the interplay between the state and the comic book readership as a site of potential freedom, onto which the latter projected its interests and critical reflections. This point is further explored by Eedy in the evocative fourth chapter (“Escape, Escapism, and the Cultural Imperialism of Comic Book Travel in Mosaik and Atze”), which explores the comics’ capacious and problematic representation of travel as incompatible with both their supposedly anti-imperialist ethos and with the possibilities afforded to children by European communist societies, the latter of which resulted in the creation of “unrealistic expectations” among their young readership. Anna Horakova, University of Grenoble
{"title":"Culture from the Slums: Punk Rock in East and West Germany by Jeff Hayton (review)","authors":"Joe Perry","doi":"10.1353/gsr.2023.0028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/gsr.2023.0028","url":null,"abstract":"tion of East German society by the SED. Eedy amends this model by adopting the concept of an “ersatz public sphere” where the critical public opinion that Jürgen Habermas associates with the public sphere finds alternative forms of expression within the privacy of the domestic space, and where Eigensinn—a mechanism that allowed East German citizens to normalize their domestic space by conceiving of it as outside of the reach of state-controlled media—plays an important role. With Mary Fulbrook, Eedy attributes to the GDR, as a niche society, a stabilizing effect for the SED regime, which for this reason unofficially allowed for criticism articulated in a permissible way (e.g., through civic petitions) from within the private sphere. Diffusion and consumption of children’s comic books fall under this category—and Eedy aptly documents East German comic books as sites of contested power where the regime’s efforts at complete oversight were countered by the comics’ creators (for instance, in the haphazard, anti-teleological time-travel of Mosaik’s comic book characters, the Digedags) or the children themselves (by using comic books to articulate their experiences of childhood under GDR socialism). By analyzing letters written to the FDJ, the third chapter, “Power, Eigensinn, and the Construction of Space through Comics,” examines further the interplay between the state and the comic book readership as a site of potential freedom, onto which the latter projected its interests and critical reflections. This point is further explored by Eedy in the evocative fourth chapter (“Escape, Escapism, and the Cultural Imperialism of Comic Book Travel in Mosaik and Atze”), which explores the comics’ capacious and problematic representation of travel as incompatible with both their supposedly anti-imperialist ethos and with the possibilities afforded to children by European communist societies, the latter of which resulted in the creation of “unrealistic expectations” among their young readership. Anna Horakova, University of Grenoble","PeriodicalId":43954,"journal":{"name":"German Studies Review","volume":"46 1","pages":"176 - 178"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45563288","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Intertextual Continuities: Intergenerational, Multimodal, and Translingual Knowledge Production in Literature by Black German-speaking Authors","authors":"A. Bryant","doi":"10.1353/gsr.2023.0014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/gsr.2023.0014","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43954,"journal":{"name":"German Studies Review","volume":"46 1","pages":"139 - 141"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48983362","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
abstract:Examining initiatives in the Bundestag and the media to move the FRG's capital from Bonn to West Berlin in regard to their implications on the West German nation-building process, this article conceives of the year 1956 as a singular counterexample to Bonn's gradual consolidation as federal capital. A unique convergence of an atmosphere of impending change in the Eastern Bloc and a manifest domestic crisis of Bonn as capital created a momentum that threatened to bring down Bonn as capital and central symbol of the Bonn Republic. The resulting "Berlin initiatives" evidence a diverse West German imaginary about the potential of reunification.
{"title":"Backlash Against Bonn: The Building Freeze in the Bonn Federal District and the \"Berlin Initiatives\" of 1956","authors":"Jan Uelzmann","doi":"10.1353/gsr.2023.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/gsr.2023.0002","url":null,"abstract":"abstract:Examining initiatives in the Bundestag and the media to move the FRG's capital from Bonn to West Berlin in regard to their implications on the West German nation-building process, this article conceives of the year 1956 as a singular counterexample to Bonn's gradual consolidation as federal capital. A unique convergence of an atmosphere of impending change in the Eastern Bloc and a manifest domestic crisis of Bonn as capital created a momentum that threatened to bring down Bonn as capital and central symbol of the Bonn Republic. The resulting \"Berlin initiatives\" evidence a diverse West German imaginary about the potential of reunification.","PeriodicalId":43954,"journal":{"name":"German Studies Review","volume":"46 1","pages":"35 - 56"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45390144","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"\"Food for Thought\": New Visions for the GSA","authors":"Katrin Bahr, Katharina Gerstenberger","doi":"10.1353/gsr.2023.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/gsr.2023.0007","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43954,"journal":{"name":"German Studies Review","volume":"46 1","pages":"123 - 125"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41825126","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lincoln M Tracy, Sandra Reeder, Michelle Gold, Heather J Cleland
Burn care clinicians are required to make critical decisions regarding the withholding and withdrawal of treatment in patients with severe and potentially non-survivable burn injuries. Little is known about how Australian and New Zealand burn care specialists approach decision-making for these patients. This study aimed to understand clinician beliefs, values, considerations, and difficulties regarding palliative and end-of-life (EoL) care discussions and decision-making following severe burn injury in Australian and New Zealand burn services. An online survey collected respondent and institutional demographic data as well as information about training and involvement in palliative care/EoL decision-making discussions from nurses, surgeons, and intensivists in Australian and New Zealand hospitals with specialist burn services. Twenty-nine burns nurses, 26 burns surgeons, and 15 intensivists completed the survey. Respondents were predominantly female (64%) and had a median of 15 years of experience in treating burn patients. All respondents received little training in EoL decision-making during their undergraduate education; intensivists reported receiving more on-the-job training. Specialist clinicians differed on who they felt should contribute to EoL discussions. Ninety percent of respondents reported injury severity as a key factor in their decision-making to withhold or withdraw treatment, but less than half reported considering age in their decision-making. Approximately two-thirds indicated a high probability of death or a poor predicted quality of life influenced their decision-making. The three cohorts of clinicians had similar views toward certain aspects of EoL decision-making. Qualitative research could provide detailed insights into the varying perspectives held by clinicians.
{"title":"Burn Care Specialists' Views Toward End-of-Life Decision-Making in Patients With Severe Burn Injury: Findings From an Online Survey in Australia and New Zealand.","authors":"Lincoln M Tracy, Sandra Reeder, Michelle Gold, Heather J Cleland","doi":"10.1093/jbcr/irac030","DOIUrl":"10.1093/jbcr/irac030","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Burn care clinicians are required to make critical decisions regarding the withholding and withdrawal of treatment in patients with severe and potentially non-survivable burn injuries. Little is known about how Australian and New Zealand burn care specialists approach decision-making for these patients. This study aimed to understand clinician beliefs, values, considerations, and difficulties regarding palliative and end-of-life (EoL) care discussions and decision-making following severe burn injury in Australian and New Zealand burn services. An online survey collected respondent and institutional demographic data as well as information about training and involvement in palliative care/EoL decision-making discussions from nurses, surgeons, and intensivists in Australian and New Zealand hospitals with specialist burn services. Twenty-nine burns nurses, 26 burns surgeons, and 15 intensivists completed the survey. Respondents were predominantly female (64%) and had a median of 15 years of experience in treating burn patients. All respondents received little training in EoL decision-making during their undergraduate education; intensivists reported receiving more on-the-job training. Specialist clinicians differed on who they felt should contribute to EoL discussions. Ninety percent of respondents reported injury severity as a key factor in their decision-making to withhold or withdraw treatment, but less than half reported considering age in their decision-making. Approximately two-thirds indicated a high probability of death or a poor predicted quality of life influenced their decision-making. The three cohorts of clinicians had similar views toward certain aspects of EoL decision-making. Qualitative research could provide detailed insights into the varying perspectives held by clinicians.</p>","PeriodicalId":43954,"journal":{"name":"German Studies Review","volume":"22 1","pages":"1322-1328"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9629441/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91052433","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
While the study makes a strong case for the scholarly and pedagogical value of reading texts through the lens of interculturality, as eclectically and dynamically redefined by Coleman, some fundamental questions about this interpretive paradigm arise along the way. For one, we never get a clear argument for why a right to difference should be expressly codified in the discourse of human rights. Coleman’s investment in the attunement to difference, as an antidote to what she regards as a fixation on sameness in universalist discourse, leads her to overlook the ways in which the fuzzy legal persons of human rights law can already be grasped at the intersection of multiple, changing affiliations. What is juridically gained by an additional right to difference? In fact, insisting on a right to difference opens the door, as Coleman admits, to appropriation by those, such as right-wing political movements, who seek to legitimate a reductionist and discriminatory definition of group identity. Given Coleman’s repeated efforts to highlight the contingencies of cultural differences in her readings, the reader cannot help but wish for an account of how cultural differences come about. The term culture itself refers to the ancient practice of cultivating or settling land, an act of demarcation that set off a chain of signifying operations and semantic distinctions between inside/outside, own/foreign, nature/culture, civilization/barbarism, and so on. Cultural differences are not ontological, but are the result of technical interventions in the world that make a difference. Though Coleman’s discussion of soil in the chapter on expulsion points in this direction, her study runs the risk of hypostatizing cultural difference, an ahistorical tendency reinforced by the focus on twenty-first century texts. As a result, her model of intercultural competence, preoccupied with the statements of protagonists in novels, neglects the ways that cultural differences are also shaped by the medial practices through which distinctions are introduced, regulated, negotiated, and even undermined in efforts to create order in the world. Claims to the right to asylum, for instance, are inseparable from the daily operations of the passport system that is mediated by the issuing, bearing, and verifying of passports. The study of interculturality can also benefit from analysis of how literary texts explore the differences that technical media make in the world. Charlton Payne, Carl Zeiss AG
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