Edinburgh German Yearbook 1

BIRGIT TAUTZ is George Taylor Files Professor of Modern Languages and German at Bowdoin College. CHRISTIAN MOSER is Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Bonn. LYN MARVEN is Senior Lecturer in German at the University of Liverpool. SUSANNE KORD is Professor of German at University College London and has published widely on crime and antisemitism, ethics in horror films, women and violent crime, and many other books and essays on film (especially genre and Hollywood movies), women's literary history and reception, and eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literature and culture. She has received 6 major awards for her writing. In the interest of making some of women's unknown literature available to modern readers, she has edited four collections of plays by women and translated three dramas into English. Her major works include Murderesses in German Writing, 1720-1860 (Cambridge UP, 2013), Lovable Crooks and Loathsome Jews: Antisemitism in German and Austrian Crime Writing Before the World Wars (McFarland, 2018). Her latest book is a short exploration of Drew Goddard's meta-horror film The Cabin in the Woods (2012), forthcoming with Liverpool University Press in 2022.

Introduction - Eleoma Joshua Defining Cultural Exchange: Of Gender, the Power of Definition, and the Long Road Home - Susanne Kord From Text to Body: The Changing Image of "Chinese Teachers" in Eighteenth-Century German Literature - Birgit Tautz "Was findest Du darinne, das nicht mit der allerstrengsten Vernunft ubereinkomme?": Islam as Natural Theology in Lessing's Writings and in the Enlightenment Enlightenment - Silvia Horsch The Nordic Turn in German Literature - Gauti Kristmannsson Cultural Exchange in the Travel Writing of Friedrich Stolberg - Eleoma Joshua Aneignung, Verpflanzung, Zirkulation: Johann Gottfried Herders Konzeption des interkulturellen Austauschs - Christian Moser "Wandeln an der Grenze": Trapper und andere hybride Charaktere in der deutschsprachigen Amerikaliteratur des 19. Jahrhunderts - Daniela Kramer "Sprechen wir wie in Texas": American Influence and the Idea of America in the Weimar Republic - Jon Hughes "Deutschland lebt an der Nahtstelle, an der Bruchstelle": The Utopia of Cultural Blending in Wolfgang Koeppen's Tauben im Gras - Thomas Martinec Colonial Legacies and Cross-Cultural Experience: The African Voice in Contemporary German Literature - Dirk Goettsche Anatolian Childhoods: Becoming Woman in OEzdamar's Das Leben ist eine Karawanserei and Zaimoglu's Leyla - Margaret Littler "Kanacke her, Almanci hin. [...] Ich war ein Kreuzberger": Berlin in Contemporary Turkish-German Literature - Lyn Marven