Tropical Zion: General Trujillo, FDR, and the Jews of Sosua, by Allen Wells / Reviewed by Yael Allweil
Tropical Zion: General Trujillo, FDR, and the Jews of Sosua, by Allen Wells Reviewed by Yael Allweil Download PDF Allen Wells, Tropical Zion: General Trujillo, FDR, and the Jews of Sosua. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2009. Pp. 485. Paper, $27.95. Tropical Zion is a study that aims at large goals. Through a small, forgotten […]
Sonderzeichen Europa, by Yoko Tawada and László Márton / Reviewed by Kurt Beals
Sonderzeichen Europa, by Yoko Tawada and László Márton Reviewed by Kurt Beals Download PDF Yoko Tawada and László Márton, Sonderzeichen Europa. RanitzDialog1. Ottensheim an der Donau, Austria: Edition Thanhäuser, 2009. 72pp., Paper, 20€. Although billed as a dialog, this exchange on topics ranging from the history and protean definition of Europe to the sartorial choices […]
Switzerland, a Country of Paradoxes: An Interview about Swiss Identity, Politics and Culture with Hugo Loetscher, Roger de Weck and Iso Camartin / by Jeroen Dewulf, Kezhen Feng, Susan Hunsicker, and Andrew Tweed
Switzerland, a Country of Paradoxes: An Interview about Swiss Identity, Politics and Culture with Hugo Loetscher, Roger de Weck and Iso Camartin Jeroen Dewulf, Kezhen Feng, Susan Hunsicker, and Andrew Tweed Download PDF Abstract: The following interview was compiled from conversations with Hugo Loetscher, Roger de Weck and Iso Camartin during their visits to Berkeley […]
Deleuze, Feminism, and the New European Union: An Interview with Rosi Braidotti / by Pascale LaFountain
Deleuze, Feminism, and the New European Union: An Interview with Rosi Braidotti Pascale LaFountain Download PDF Abstract: Rosi Braidotti is at the vanguard of politically active theorists. Her engagement is marked by her intellectual prowess in feminism of the European Union and by the formation of the Netherlands Research School of Women’s Studies, which she […]
Utenzi, War Poems, and the German Conquest of East Africa: Swahili Poetry as Historical Source, by José Arturo Saavedra Casco / Reviewed by Bryan Aja
Utenzi, War Poems, and the German Conquest of East Africa: Swahili Poetry as Historical Source, by José Arturo Saavedra Casco Reviewed by Bryan Aja Download PDF José Arturo Saavedra Casco. Utenzi, War Poems, and the German Conquest of East Africa: Swahili Poetry as Historical Source. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 2007. Pp. 323. Paper, $29.95. […]
The Wehrmacht: History, Myth, Reality, by Wolfram Wette / Reviewed by Steve Choe
The Wehrmacht: History, Myth, Reality, by Wolfram Wette Reviewed by Steve Choe Download PDF Wolfram Wette. The Wehrmacht: History, Myth, Reality. Trans. Deborah Lucas Schneider. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2006. Pp. 372. Paper, $17.95. Wolfram Wette’s The Wehrmacht: History, Myth, Reality is a translation of the original German text published by S. Fischer Verlag in […]
Mapping Channels between Ganges and Rhein: German-Indian Cross-Cultural Relations, Jörg Esleben, Christina Kraenzle and Sukanya Kulkarni, eds. / Reviewed by Ashwin Manthripragada
Mapping Channels between Ganges and Rhein: German-Indian Cross-Cultural Relations, Jörg Esleben, Christina Kraenzle and Sukanya Kulkarni, eds. Reviewed by Ashwin Manthripragada Download PDF Jörg Esleben, Christina Kraenzle and Sukanya Kulkarni, eds. Mapping Channels between Ganges and Rhein: German-Indian Cross-Cultural Relations. Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008. Pp. 270. Cloth, $69.99. This volume of essays was […]
'Schriftstellerin zu sein und in seinem Leben anwesend zu sein, ist für mich eins': Ein Gespräch mit Terézia Mora / by Anke Biendarra
‘Schriftstellerin zu sein und in seinem Leben anwesend zu sein, ist für mich eins’: Ein Gespräch mit Terézia Mora Anke Biendarra Download PDF Abstract: A conversation with the author Terézia Mora. The following interview was conducted in Berlin on September 11, 2007. Terézia Mora was born in 1971 in Sopron, Hungary, in the border region […]
Pamuk's Dis-Orient: Reassembling Kafka’s Castle in Snow (2002) / by David Gramling
Pamuk’s Dis-Orient: Reassembling Kafka’s Castle in Snow (2002) David Gramling Download PDF Abstract: This article analyses the circuitous relationships between Franz Kafka’s last novel The Castle and Orhan Pamuk’s 2002 Snow. Though Pamuk’s “political novel” does not mention Kafka’s hero by name, K.’s pursuit of the domain of Count Westwest in The Castle lays the […]
Fräuleins und GIs, by Annette Brauerhoch / Reviewed by Priscilla D. Layne
Fräuleins und GIs, by Annette Brauerhoch Reviewed by Priscilla D. Layne Download PDF Annette Brauerhoch. Fräuleins und GIs. Frankfurt am Main und Basel: Stroemfeld Verlag, 2006. Pp. 532. Paper, €28.00. According to Annette Brauerhoch, prior to the Second World War, the figure of the Fräulein signified an independent, single, working woman (9); in the years […]