Beyond Alterity : German Encounters with Modern East Asia PDF
Edited by Qinna Shen, Martin Rosenstock
Part of the Spektrum: Publications of the German Studies Association series
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With the economic and political rise of East Asia in the second half of the twentieth century, many Western countries have re-evaluated their links to their Eastern counterparts.
Thus, in recent years, Asian German Studies has emerged as a promising branch within interdisciplinary German Studies.
This collection of essays examines German-language cultural production pertaining to modern China and Japan, and explicitly challenges orientalist notions by proposing a conception of East and West not as opposites, but as complementary elements of global culture, thereby urging a move beyond national paradigms in cultural studies.
Essays focus on the mid-century German-Japanese alliance, Chinese-German Leftist collaborations, global capitalism, travel, identity, and cultural hybridity.
The authors include historians and scholars of film and literature, and employ a wide array of approaches from postcolonial, globalization, media, and gender studies.
The collection sheds new light on a complex and ambivalentset of international relationships, while also testifying to the potential of Asian German Studies.
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- Pages:316 pages
- Publisher:Berghahn Books
- Publication Date:01/07/2014
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- ISBN:9781782383611
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- Format:PDF
- Pages:316 pages
- Publisher:Berghahn Books
- Publication Date:01/07/2014
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- ISBN:9781782383611