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| Format | Book Whole |
|---|---|
| Author, Monographic | Kluge, Cora Lee |
| Title, Monographic | Paths Crossing: Essays in German-American Studies |
| Place of Publication | Oxford; Bern; New York |
| Publisher | Peter Lang |
| Date of Publication | 2011 |
| Extent of Work | viii, 183 |
| Series Editor | Hermand, Jost |
| Series Title | German Life and Civilization |
| Series Vol. ID | vol. 54 |
| Address/Availability | OCLC 664114911 |
| ISBN | 978-3-0343-0221-0 |
| Abstract | Contents: Introduction: An expansive and expanding field / Cora Lee Kluge and Mark L. Louden --- Forced out of Hitler's Reich: Five eminent Madisonians / Jost Hermand --- Elvis and other Germans: Some reflections and modest proposals on the study of German-American ethnicity / Walter D. Kamphoefner --- "That species of property": Francis Lieber's encounter with slavery and race / Hartmut Keil --- Sealsfield's Das Kajuetenbuch: The half-unfolded spring of German and American literature / Hugh Ridley --- Taking stock: The disappearance of German-American literature? / Lorie A. Vanchena --- German-American dialects on different paths to extinction: Examples from Haysville, Indiana and New Ulm, Minnesota / Daniel Nuetzel --- Performing the American myth by speaking German: Changing meanings of ethnic identity between the wars / Steven Hoelscher --- Situating natural hazards in German-American studies / Uwe Luebken --- Advancing German-American studies in the digital age: Opportunities for collaboration / Louis A. Pitschman. |
| Notes | Essays presented at a conference held in Madison, Wis., in April 2009 during observances of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the founding of Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies at University of Wisconsin-Madison. Copy also at UW-Madison libraries. |
| Call Number | MKI E184 G3 P377 2010 |
| MKI Terms | German Americans/ Ethnic identity/ Language, German/ Literature, German-American/ Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)/ Slavery/ United States -- History/ German-American Studies/ Swiss Americans/ Language loss/ Language shift |