Contents

pp iv-v

Acknowledgments

pp vi-vii

Introduction: German in Its Worlds

pp 1-14

Part I - The World in German Culture

pp 15-15

Introduction to Part I: The World in German Culture

pp 16-20

1 - Goethe’s World

pp 21-32

2 - Embodying and Distributing World Literature: Goethe’s Novelle in the Context of the 1820s

pp 33-56

3 - Weltdeutschtum: On the Notion of a German World Community from Schiller to Thomas Mann

pp 57-72

4 - Nineteenth-Century German Travelers to Wales: Text, Translation, and the Manipulation of Identity

pp 73-89

5 - “Weltliteratur aus der Uckermark”: Regionalism and Transnationalism in Saša Stanišić’s Vor dem Fest

pp 90-107

6 - Postcolonial Studies in International German Studies: Postcolonial Concerns in Contemporary German Literature

pp 108-131

Part II - German in World Locales

pp 132-132

Introduction to Part II: German in World Locales

pp 133-135

7 - German in a South African Context: From Colony to Decolonization

pp 136-152

8 - From German Studies to Environmental Humanities (and Back Again): A Journey across Continents and Disciplines

pp 153-167

9 - A Philo-Selfie Approach to German-Indian Studies

pp 168-186

Part III - German Worlds beyond the Academy

pp 187-187

Introduction to Part III: German Worlds beyond the Academy

pp 188-190

10 - Towards a Socially Engaged Academy: Islam in German History and Its Relevance for Nonacademic Publics

pp 191-215

11 - Theater without Borders? Tracing the Transnational Value of German Theater beyond Germany: A UK Case Study

pp 216-235

12 - Tuning in to Germany: The BBC German Service and the British Occupation

pp 236-253

13 - Reterritorializing German Pop: Kraftwerk’s Industrielle Volksmusik as a Transnational Phenomenon

pp 254-276

Notes on the Contributors

pp 277-280

Index

pp 281-296