Teaching German in twentieth century America
Through explorations of such topics as the world wars, the Holocaust, women in the language-teaching professions, Jewish contributions, and technology, this work inspects the relationships of the two cultures as they interact through the teaching of German in American educational systems.
Print Book, English, 2001
Univ. of Wisconsin Press, Madison, Wis, 2001
Conference papers and proceedings
X, 291 S. Ill. 23 cm
9780299168308, 0299168301
237405070
Teaching German in Twentieth-Century America
The University of Wisconsin Press
Copyright © 2001 The Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin SystemAll right reserved.
ISBN: 978-0-299-16830-8
Contents
Preface..................................................................................................................................................ixAcknowledgments..........................................................................................................................................xiPeter Uwe Hohendahl How to Read Our Professional Past: A Modest Proposal................................................................................3Arthur Tilo Alt The Ideology of American Germanics: An Aspect of Its History of Perennial Isolation.....................................................16Frank Trommler Recovering the History of Germanics in the United States: An Exploration.................................................................26Theodore Ziolkowski The Roles of History and Public Policy in Shaping Germanics.........................................................................42Clifford Albrecht Bernd World War I as a Shaping Force in American Germanics............................................................................58Jost Hermand Three Stages of a Precarious Relationship: German Culture and Germanics in America, 1940-1995..............................................69David Brenner and Michael Berkowitz German History, Jewish History, German Jewish Studies: Old Wine in New Bottles?.....................................79Sara Friedrichsmeyer and Patricia Herminghouse Toward an American Germanics? Feminism as a Force for Change.............................................89Margaretmary Daley Feminist Professionalism: A Brief, Critical History of the Coalition of Women in German..............................................98Gisela Hoecherl-Alden Female Immigrant Intellectuals in Germanics: From Invisibility to "Women in German"...............................................108Ellen Manning Nagy Representations of Women in the AATG, 1850-1950......................................................................................121Susan Lee Pentlin American Germanists and the Holocaust, 1933-1945: The Legacy..........................................................................135John A. McCarthy "An Indigenous and Not an Exotic Plant": Toward a History of Germanics at Penn.........................................................146Helmut Ziefle Historical Forces, German Departments, and the Curriculum in Small Liberal Arts Colleges in the Midwest...................................173Gerhard H. Weiss and Walter F.W. Lohnes The National Defense Language Institutes: A Benchmark in the Training of Teachers of German.....................184Jeannine Blackwell Control-Alt-Delete: Reshaping Germanics Publication in the Age of Electronic Reproduction............................................192Mark W. Rectanus Publishing in Germanics: Dissemination, Legitimation, and Validation of Scholarly Communication........................................211Janet Swaffar German Studies as Studies of Cultural Discourse...........................................................................................230Editors and Contributors.................................................................................................................................249Bibliography.............................................................................................................................................253Index....................................................................................................................................................280
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