"Based on papers given at a German studies conference held on the University of Georgia campus in spring 2008"--Page [7].
Includes bibliographical references (pages 260-272).
Disciplinarity and the object of culture : some remarks on the state of American Germanistik / Michael W. Jennings -- The culture of "culture" : the paradox of primacy in the Kulturwissenschaften / Katherine Arens -- Affirmative culture from Marcuse to Moritz / Matt Erlin -- How get into Valhalla : the cultural meaning of musical greatness in nineteenth-century Germany / Celia Applegate -- Reflections on marginality, German-Jewish literature, and the study of popular culture / Jonathan M. Hess -- Behind closed doors : comparing cultures of erotic space / Simon Richter -- Edgar Wallace goes east : location of genre and German identities in Joachim Hasler's Fog / Stefan Soldovieri -- "I am interested in the truths in-between, not the simple truth" : in conversation with German director Andreas Dresen / Christine Haase, Martin Kagel -- Claiming blackness in Germany / Sara Lennox -- Cultures of violence in the new German street / Patricia Anne Simpson -- Four stories / Dilek Güngör -- Transnational literature, transnational studies / statements by Celia Applegate, Dilek Güngör, and Sara Lennox -- Looking good with Kafka / Rembert Hüser