Fellow Tribesmen (eBook)

The Image of Native Americans, National Identity, and Nazi Ideology in Germany

Frank Usbeck (Autor)

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2015
262 Seiten
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-78238-655-1 (ISBN)

Infos

Throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Germans exhibited a widespread cultural passion for tales and representations of Native Americans. This book explores the evolution of German national identity and its relationship with the ideas and cultural practices around "e;Indianthusiasm."e; Pervasive and adaptable, imagery of Native Americans was appropriated by Nazi propaganda and merged with exceptionalist notions of German tribalism, oxymoronically promoting the Nazis' racial ideology. This book combines cultural and intellectual history to scrutinize the motifs of Native American imagery in German literature, media, and scholarship, and analyzes how these motifs facilitated the propaganda effort to nurture national pride, racial thought, militarism, and hatred against the Allied powers among the German populace.

Autor

Frank Usbeck is  Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Technische Universität Dresden. He earned his Ph.D. at Leipzig University, and his thesis was awarded the Rolf Kentner Dissertation Prize of the Heidelberg Center for American Studies in 2011. He co-edited the collection Participating Audiences, Imagined Public Spheres (2012) and has published a number of essays on Indian imagery in Germany and on ceremonial storytelling in American soldier weblogs. Usbeck is a member of the Dresden-Leipzig research initiative “Selbst-bewusste Erzählungen.”

Inhalt

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1. The Image of Indians in German Romanticism and Emerging Nationalism    
Chapter 2. Nation-Formation, National Identity, and Nationalism
Chapter 3. Relatives, Allies, or Subjects? Applications of Nazi Ideology through Indian Imagery in Popular Media and Academia

Conclusion

Bibliography
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.5.2015
• Reihe/Serie: Studies in German History
• Reihe/Serie: Studies in German History
• Verlagsort: New York
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Neuzeit bis 1918
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
• Schlagworte: 18th/19th Century History, 20th Century History • History: 18th/19th Century, History: 20th Century to Present, Cultural Studies (General), Literary Studies
• ISBN-10: 1-78238-655-6 / 1782386556
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78238-655-1 / 9781782386551