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Schiller, Melanie. "Heino, Rammstein and the double-ironic melancholia of Germanness." European Journal of Cultural Studies 23, no. 2 (December 29, 2018): 261–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1367549418810100.

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Mass migration and the so-called refugee crisis have put questions of national identifications high on political and social agendas in Germany and all over Europe, and have ignited anew debates about the inclusiveness and exclusiveness of Germanness. In this context, popular culture texts and practices offer insights into how identities are marked, and they engage in and produce discourses about national belonging. In this article, I will focus on how popular music in particular plays a pivotal role in the creation and negotiation of national identifications as it functions as a site of continuous (re-)articulations of Germanness. I focus on a recent peak in the controversy of the discourse surrounding Germanness as it unravelled in 2013, when the nation’s most successful Heimat- and Schlager singer Heino ironically covered, among others, the song ‘Sonne’ by Germany’s internationally most successful (and notoriously controversial) popular music export: Rammstein. In analysing the multiple layers of irony articulated by Rammstein, Heino and the audience as tropes of negotiations of Germanness in popular music as processes through which identity is actively imagined, created, and constructed, I argue that the double-ironic articulation of Germanness by Rammstein and Heino, and the discursive controversy in its wake, point to the melancholic temporality of German national identification as an impossible ‘remembrance’ of its traumatic national past.
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Pöllmann, Andreas. "LocatingAncestryin Notions of Britishness/Germanness." SAGE Open 2, no. 4 (October 2012): 215824401246666. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2158244012466666.

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Saur, Pamela S., Patricia Herminghouse, and Magda Mueller. "Gender and Germanness: Cultural Productions of Nation." Die Unterrichtspraxis / Teaching German 32, no. 1 (1999): 90. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3531885.

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Ehrenpreis, David, Patricia Herminghouse, and Magda Mueller. "Gender and Germanness: Cultural Productions of Nation." German Studies Review 23, no. 1 (February 2000): 204. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1431498.

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Lewis, Virginia L. "Swanson, John C. 2017. Tangible Belonging: Negotiating Germanness in Twentieth-Century Hungary - Pitt Series in Russian and East European Studies. Pittsburgh, PA: U of Pittsburgh P. 456 pp. Illus." Hungarian Cultural Studies 10 (September 6, 2017): 221–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.5195/ahea.2017.309.

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David Wetzel. "The Heimat Abroad: The Boundaries of Germanness (review)." Journal of World History 19, no. 1 (2008): 119–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/jwh.0.0003.

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Inglis, Cody James. "Tangible belonging: negotiating Germanness in twentieth-century Hungary." European Review of History: Revue européenne d'histoire 26, no. 2 (September 7, 2018): 355–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13507486.2018.1505291.

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Fogelman, Tatiana. "Becoming-German: Integrationism, citizenship and territorialization of Germanness." Geoforum 113 (July 2020): 60–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2020.05.004.

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James, Jason. "Retrieving a Redemptive Past: Protecting Heritage and Heimat in East German Cities." German Politics and Society 27, no. 3 (September 1, 2009): 1–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/gps.2009.270301.

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In the years following unification, East German cityscapes have been subject to fierce contention because historic preservation and urban renewal have served as a local allegory of national redemption. Using conflicts over preservation and renewal in the city of Eisenach as a case study, I argue that historic cityscapes have served as the focus of many East Germans' efforts to grapple with the problem of Germanness because they address the past as a material cultural legacy to be retrieved and protected, rather than as a past to be worked through. In Eisenach's conflicts, heritage and Heimat serve as talismans of redemption not just because they symbolize an unspoiled German past, but also because they represent structures of difference that evoke a victimized Germanness—they are above all precious, vulnerable possessions threatened with disruption, pollution, or destruction by agents placed outside the moral boundaries of the hometown by its bourgeois custodians.
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Schiller, Melanie. "“Fun Fun Fun on the Autobahn”: Kraftwerk Challenging Germanness." Popular Music and Society 37, no. 5 (April 24, 2014): 618–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03007766.2014.908522.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Germanness"

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Mueller, Ulrike Anne. "White Germanness, German whiteness : race, nation and identity /." view abstract or download file of text, 2003. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/uoregon/fullcit?p3095265.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2003.
Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 254-273). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.
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Fisher, G. C. "Locating Germanness : Bukovina and Bukovinians after the Second World War." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2015. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1461387/.

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The National Socialist regime’s policies of discrimination, territorial expansion and genocide, and their immediate consequences, radically transformed the demographic, geographic and political map of Europe. These historical circumstances also lastingly recast what it meant to be German. The violence of these events was such that it reverberates across generations until the present. Yet if German nationalism was discredited by the defeat of Hitler, the war also seemed to confirm the necessity of a convergence between peoples and state borders. In addition, the legacies of violence perpetuated the distinction between overwhelmingly Jewish victims and German perpetrators. This thesis explores the development of a variety of constructions and uses of Germanness in the aftermath of World War Two. It is based on the case study of Bukovina, a former province of the Habsburg Empire regarded as both an ‘island of Germanness’ and a model of ‘peaceful coexistence among peoples’. Until the Second World War, the historical territory of Bukovina was home to a significant minority of German-speaking Jews, and self-defining ethnic Germans. After 1945, many of these German-speaking Bukovinians developed a nostalgic and quasi-diasporic relationship to this homeland, epitomised by the creation of Landsmannschaften (homeland societies) in Germany and Israel. This thesis explores the complexities of these Bukovinian identities in different and changing post-war contexts, primarily West Germany, but also former East Germany, Romania and Israel. It argues that these narratives and enactments influenced each other, but also need to be related to the larger post-war categories of ‘expellees’ (Heimatvertriebene) and ‘Holocaust survivors’ in particular. Adopting a socio-cultural approach and taking Bukovina as a site of interaction of different discourses on Germanness in the post-war period, this thesis challenges the direct link often posited between experience, identification and national frameworks of understanding. Instead, it emphasises the importance of ‘belonging’, ‘compensation’ and ‘coherence’.
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Hyland, Claire. "Don't fence us in! : perceptions of East Germanness among the 1970s generation in Berlin." Thesis, University of Bath, 2012. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.557806.

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This thesis explores how Germans born in the GDR during the 1970s engage with discourses about the east when discursively constructing their identities in contemporary unified Germany. Existing academic research into east Germanness has largely focused on the idea of a collective identity, and consists of two predominant lines of argument. The first suggests that eastern identities jeopardise German unity, implying that east Germanness cannot exist alongside Germanness. The second problematises the often negative representations of easterners in the popular sphere. Taking this discourse as its basis, however, it risks overlooking the ways that easterners themselves perceive the east. By taking a constructivist approach and adopting a qualitative, interpretive methodology, the thesis gains in-depth insights into the complex ways in which easterners themselves negotiate a sense of east Germanness. The research consists of twenty in-depth interviews which were designed around the theme of consumption, a social and discursive practice common to the GDR and unified Germany, but one which has changed dramatically since unification. The findings revealed that popular perceptions do indeed contribute to the participants’ understandings. However, they presented a more differentiated and complex picture of the east, which enabled them to construct a form of east Germanness which better fits their understandings. Importantly, it appears that these perceptions are not represented in current discourses. Using generation to identify themselves as a unique group, the participants distanced themselves from negative perceptions of the east and identified with positive attributes of both the east and west. This group view themselves as engaged members of a capitalist society, who not only identify as both German and east German, but perceive their socialist upbringings to benefit them in unified Germany. Importantly, the characteristics that they attach to their identities appear to be typical of western society. Using the label of the 1970s generation, they maintain a sense of east Germanness but paint a new picture of it which is contextualised within western norms and values.
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Tellenbach, Uttman M. A. K. "Perceiving Germanness : changing concepts of German culture and history as seen from abroad : Swedish and an American perspective." Thesis, Swansea University, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.639172.

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The aim of this study was to investigate the dynamics of perceptions of Germanness during the last hundred years, from a Swedish and an American perspective, and how time and distance affect ethnic identity, as experienced from without and within. Field research was undertaken in two places during a year: Milwaukee in Wisconsin, United States and Sweden as a whole. These two choices were considered as good examples of different connections to Germany and Germans, and influences of Germanness, and constituted a relevant comparison. The material was collected through participant observation, interviews, archive material such as personal documents and old newspapers. The research was explorative through empirical methods, and the data collected is of qualitative character. This thesis has brought out some interesting and important aspects of identity, and more specifically about perceiving Germanness. Perceptions have emerged in both static images, and dynamic processes of events or developments in history. The world wars caused damage to German identity, especially the First World War to Germanness in America. The Second World War, and especially the Holocaust, has had a great effect in both countries. But also less dramatic events influenced perceptions of Germanness. At the same time as perceptions have changed completely due to certain events, there have been parallel perceptions upheld by different groups in society. Many of the stereotyped ideas of Germanness have been the same during the last hundred years, and changes in perceptions have often stayed within similar categories. Certain events or processes have made it difficult to be German at times, but expressing ethnic identity also depends on social developments such as multiculturalism.
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Graef, Josefin. "Narrating violent crime and negotiating Germanness : the print news media and the National Socialist Underground (NSU), 2000-2012." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2017. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/7274/.

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This thesis examines how the German print news media negotiate notions of Germanness by narrating the acts of violent crime committed by the right-wing extremist group National Socialist Underground (NSU) between 2000 and 2011. Combining Paul Ricœur’s textual hermeneutics with insights from narrative criminology as well as violence and narrative media studies, I approach the NSU as a narrative puzzle. I thereby investigate how the media narrate a murder series of nine men with a migration background, a nail bomb attack in a Turkish-dominated street and an (attempted) murder of two police officers. I compare the narratives constructed both before and after the identification of the perpetrators in November 2011. Through an extensive narrative analysis of news media discourse, I examine how notions of Germanness are negotiated through the construction of relationships between perpetrators, victims, society and the state. The key argument is that the NSU has not affected dominant perceptions of Germanness, but reinforced existing ones through the creation of a hierarchy of “‘Others’ within”: immigrants, East Germans, and (right-wing) extremists. The findings show that the interpretation of acts of violent crime, especially over extended periods of time, is rooted in everyday practices of story-telling and identity construction.
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Melck, Marcus. "The Afrikadeutschen of Kroondal 1849 - 1949." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/27467.

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The history of the Afrikadeutschen of Kroondal that began with the formation of the Hermannsburg Mission Society in 1849 and that grew to encompass a century of German nationalism over the course of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, provides an important dimension to the greater story of German immigration and settlement in South Africa. It is a narrative in which the position of the community’s growing association with their adopted landscape or Heimat serves to create the inevitable counterpoint to their ideological identity as Germans and thereby too, its reconciliation in the name Afrikadeutsche (African-Germans). Situated in the North-West province of South Africa, the community of Kroondal displays a unique collection of archival and literary source material that along with the this dissertation’s use of the specifically German descriptors Heimat and Deutschtum (Germanness) then serve as the basis for its investigation into its African-German identity.
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Moore, Fiona. "Global elites and local people : images of Germanness and cosmopolitanism in the self-presentation of German transnational business people in London." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2002. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:b3798743-9711-436f-bc6d-30debbd6775f.

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Although many anthropologists have studied transnational groups, few consider the way in which social organisation takes place in globalising environments. An examination of the use of symbols of Germanness and cosmopolitanism in the selfpresentation of German businesspeople in London suggests that, in doing so, they are not defining themselves as a solidary group so much as they are engaging in complex negotiations between global and local social entities. Combining Anthony Cohen's theory of the symbolic construction of groups (1985) with Erving Goffman's of strategic self-presentation (1956), I begin by examining Sklair' s (2001) hypothesis that transnational businesspeople form a detached, globalised, solidary "transnational capitalist class." I then consider the ways in which symbols are actually used in transnational business, through a case study focusing around the London branches of two German banks, the Head Office of one of them, and German-focused institutions in the UK. My analysis reveals that not only is transnational businesspeople' s use of symbols more complex than the construction of a single social group, they also use the multivalency of symbols to shift their selfpresentations and affiliations in response to the activities of other actors. I conclude by postulating a new way of looking at transnational social formations, incorporating Sklair's theory, Castells' "Network Society" ( 1996) and Appadurai's "Global Landscapes": the Transnational Capitalist Society model (TCS). This is a theoretical construct comprising all actors engaging in business activity across borders at any given time; it also includes the links between transnational social formations, and local entities inasmuch as they engage in transnational capitalism. An examination of the symbolic self-presentation of German transnational businesspeople thus suggests that, not only are they not a solidary, detached "class," but the complex, shifting nature of their interactions points to the need for a more diffuse, multiply engaged model for considering transnational social formations.
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Dedekind, Heidel. "Design as a stabilising force : an exploration of the visual rhetoric of objects in a South African German community with reference to narrative and cultural identity." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/31637.

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This study explores the role of design as a force that may stabilise cultural identity in a cultural climate of globalisation through the use of visual rhetoric and narrative. It focuses specifically on the heritage and face of a German culture in South Africa. Objects that are found amongst the South African German community are analysed in an attempt to uncover the rhetoric and narrative of the culture’s heritage in a country far removed from their Heimat. The study deals with terms such as Sehnsucht and belonging, of maintaining a sense of cultural difference while being integrated and socially accepted. It uses visual rhetoric as a means to discover elements that may be used by design in order to adequately represent the Germanness of the South African German community in a way that it can be maintained in today’s way of life.
Dissertation (MA)--University of Pretoria, 2012.
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Brammer, Birgit. "Adele Steinwender : observations of a German woman living on a Berlin mission station as recorded in her diary." Diss., Pretoria : [s.n.], 2008. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-08202008-173954/.

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Richards, Arthur Tylor. "(Re-)imagining Germanness: Victoria's Germans and the 1915 Lusitania riot." Thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1828/4131.

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In May 1915 British soldiers stationed near Victoria instigated a retaliatory riot against the local German community for the sinking of the RMS Lusitania. The riot spanned two days, and many local residents eagerly took part in the looting and destruction of German owned businesses. Despite its uniqueness as the city’s largest race riot, scholars have under-appreciated its importance for Victoria and British Columbia’s racial narrative. The riot further signals a change in how Victorians understood Germanness. From the 1850s onwards, Victoria’s British hegemony welcomed Germans as like-minded and appropriate white settlers. I argue that race and colour shaped German lives in Victoria, for the most part positively. During the war however Germanness took on new and negative meaning. As a result, many Germans increasingly hid their German background. Germans maintained their compatibility with the British hegemony, largely thanks to their whiteness, well after German racial background became a liability.
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Books on the topic "Germanness"

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Preservation and national belonging in eastern Germany: Heritage fetishism and redeeming Germanness. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.

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Crawley, Erin Leigh. Challenging concepts of cultural and national homogeneity: Afro-German women and the articulation of Germanness. Ann Arbor: University Microfilms, 1997.

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Sandler, Willeke. Locating Germanness, Locating the Colonial. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190697907.003.0004.

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Many colonialists had believed that the Nazi regime established in 1933 would ease cooperation between colonialists and the Nazi Party, but conflicts between colonialists and Nazi officials continued over the next decade. This chapter examines these continuing tensions through two categories: organizational rivalry and ideological competition. Organizations such as the NS-Frauenschaft, the Hitler Youth, the Auslands-Organisation, and the Volksbund für das Deutschtum im Ausland competed with colonialists for access to sectors of German society and for control over discussions about Auslandsdeutschen (Germans beyond Germany’s borders). Colonialists also had to assert the relationship between their focus on Africa and the Nazis’ focus on Eastern Europe as a territorial goal. These competitions at times hindered colonialists’ publicity work, yet also brought discussions of the former overseas colonies into broader sectors of society through these other organizations.
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Bridenthal, Renate, Nancy Reagin, and K. Molly O'Donnell. Heimat Abroad: The Boundaries of Germanness. University of Michigan Press, 2010.

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1954-, Stevenson Patrick, and Theobald John 1946-, eds. Relocating Germanness: Discursive disunity in unified Germany. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000.

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(Editor), Patrick Stevenson, and John Theobald (Editor), eds. Relocating Germanness: Discursive Disunity in Unified Germany. Palgrave Macmillan, 2000.

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Patricia, Herminghouse, and Mueller Magda, eds. Gender and Germanness: Cultural productions of nation. Providence, RI: Berghahn Books, 1997.

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Gender and Germanness: Cultural Productions of Nation (Modern German Studies). Berghahn Books, 1997.

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James, J. Preservation and National Belonging in Eastern Germany: Heritage Fetishism and Redeeming Germanness. Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.

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(Editor), K. Molly O'Donnell, Renate Bridenthal (Editor), and Nancy Reagin (Editor), eds. The Heimat Abroad: The Boundaries of Germanness (Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany). University of Michigan Press, 2005.

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Book chapters on the topic "Germanness"

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James, Jason. "Cultural Heritage and Germanness." In Preservation and National Belonging in Eastern Germany, 62–91. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137032836_3.

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Bertola, Mauro Fosco. "Beyond Germanness? Music’s History as ‘Entangled History’ in German Musicology from the End of the Nineteenth Century to the Second World War." In Nazi Germany and Southern Europe, 1933–45, 25–37. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137551528_2.

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"Germanness." In The White Ribbon, 47–62. Boydell & Brewer, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv134vkm3.10.

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Joep, Leerssen. "Articulating Germanness." In Encyclopedia of Romantic Nationalism in Europe. Amsterdam University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789462981188/ngry3v16dsinbcegkrandyqb.

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Geheran, Michael. "Defiant Germanness." In Comrades Betrayed, 170–205. Cornell University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501751011.003.0007.

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This chapter discusses the Wannsee Conference and the deportations to and the experiences of Jewish veterans in Theresienstadt. The Wannsee Conference in January 1942 established Theresienstadt as the destination for highly decorated and war-wounded Jewish veterans. The German public's negative reaction to the deportations of Jews that began the previous year, together with interventions by senior officers, pressured the Schutzstaffel (SS) to create a special camp for “privileged” types of German Jews. Theresienstadt was merely a ruse, a way station on the road to Auschwitz. But as the chapter shows, despite the brutal conditions they faced there and at other Nazi camps, Jewish veterans' connection to their former status and their identity did not abruptly end.
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"Islands of Germanness:." In Hitler’s Northern Utopia, 77–124. Princeton University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvxcrz7r.7.

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"6. Defiant Germanness." In Comrades Betrayed, 170–205. Cornell University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9781501751035-009.

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Lukate, Johanna Melissa. "‘Blackness Disrupts My Germanness.’." In To Exist is to Resist, 116–28. Pluto Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvg8p6cc.12.

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"3. Islands of Germanness." In Hitler’s Northern Utopia, 77–124. Princeton University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9780691210902-005.

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"Germanness, Othering and Ethnic Comedy." In Turkish German Muslims and Comedy Entertainment, 41–60. Leuven University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv17ppc8x.5.

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