Paths crossing : essays in German-American studies / edited by Cora Lee Kluge.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kluge, Cora Lee.

Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies (University of Wisconsin--Madison)

Samuel P. Orlando Fund.

Series:

German life and civilization ; v. 54.

German life and civilization ; v. 54

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

German Americans--Study and teaching--Congresses.

German Americans.

German Americans--Ethnic identity--Congresses.

German Americans--Intellectual life--Congresses.

German Americans--Languages--Congresses.

German American literature--History and criticism--Congresses.

German American literature.

Ethnic relations.

Language and languages.

German Americans--Intellectual life.

German Americans--Ethnic identity.

German Americans--Study and teaching.

United States--Ethnic relations--Congresses.

United States.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Festschriften.

Physical Description:

183 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Peter Lang, 2011.

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 Kajütenbuch : 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 Nützel

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 Lübken

Advancing German-American studies in the digital age : opportunities for collaboration / Louis A. Pitschmann.

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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Samuel P. Orlando Fund.

ISBN:

9783034302210

3034302215

OCLC:

664114911

Publisher Number:

99943167479