Imagining Germany Imagining Asia: Essays in Asian-German Studies

by Veronika Fuechtner

The first collection of essays in the new field of Asian-German Studies, Imagining Germany Imagining Asia demonstrates that Germany and Asia have always shared cultural spaces. Indeed, since the time of the German Enlightenment, Asia served as the foil for fantasies of sexuality, escape, danger, competition, and racial and spiritual purity that were central to foundational ideas of a cohesive German national culture during crucial historical...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1571135480
• ISBN13: 9781571135483
• Release Date: October 2013
• Publisher: Camden House (NY)
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"