Narratives of America and the Frontier in Nineteenth-century German Literature

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P. Lang, 2000 - Literary Collections - 302 pages
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German literature about America has consistently occupied a marginal position in both German and American studies. This study attempts an overall interpretation of such nineteenth-century literature by charting its most significant narratives. Narratives are thus shown to be embedded and generated in a bicultural or multicultural setting derived from historical givens as well as from the possibilities inherent in fabrication. The result is the illumination of an area previously neglected in literature, revealing not only intricate literary creations, but also significant insights about culture, canonicity, and the construction of national identities.

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In a more recent study of German - American literature , Barbara Lang completely
ignores these writers , preferring to concentrate on only those writers who have
lived and published in America . " Juliane Mikoletzky prefers to devote her ...
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Barbara Lang , The Process of Immigration in German - American Literature from
1850 – 1900 : A Change in Ethnic Self ... following way : “ German - American
writers are defined as immigrants from Germany writing prose literature in
English ...
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Otto - Walster lived in America from 1876 to 1890 , writing for among others the
New Yorker Staatszeitung . It is useful to situate Otto - Walster in the German -
American socialist narrative . Carol J. Poore notes , in relation to German -
American ...

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Contents

Charles Sealsfields Fable of the Republic
87
Charles Sealsfield and the Frontier Thesis
109
Reinhold Solgers Bildungsreise to the New World
127
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About the author (2000)

The Author: Jerry Schuchalter is the author of Frontier and Utopia in the Fiction of Charles Sealsfield (Peter Lang, 1986), co-author of The Frontiers of American Political Experience (1990), and Lacunaology (1995), as well as the editor of Interdependence and Interaction: English in Contact with Other Languages and Cultures (1995). Dr. Schuchalter has also written numerous essays on American literature, German literature, intercultural studies, and Jewish studies.

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TitleNarratives of America and the Frontier in Nineteenth-century German Literature
Volume 25 of North American Studies
Volume 25 of North American studies in nineteenth-century German literature
AuthorJerry Schuchalter
PublisherP. Lang, 2000
Original fromthe University of California
Digitized11 Jul 2008
ISBN0820444774, 9780820444772
Length302 pages
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