Sara Markham draws on interdisciplinary scholarship and a rich variety of archival sources to provide a definitive analysis of German travel literature. She examines images of the United States in a multiplicity of cultural and historical contexts. Her study delineates and assesses socially critical, women's literary, worker-oriented, socialist, and nascent anti-fascist tendencies in travel books of Weimar Germany. Markham's focus on German perceptions of U.S. workers, women, and Afro-Americans illuminates the historical dimensions of the authors' contributions and limitations in regard to German cultural legacy.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Peter Lang Publishing Inc
ISBN-10
0820402664
ISBN-13
9780820402666
eBay Product ID (ePID)
158296031
Product Key Features
Author
Sara H Markham
Format
Hardback
Language
English
Subject
Literary Criticism
Type
Textbook
Additional Product Features
Issn
0721-1392
Series Part/Volume Number
45
First Published
1986
Series Title
American University Studies Series 1: Germanic Languages and Literature