| German Bodies: Race and Representation After Hitler Contributor(s): Linke, Uli (Author) |
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ISBN: 041592121X ISBN-13: 9780415921213 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $161.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: June 1999 Annotation: "German Bodies" explores the cultural representations of German identity and citizenship before and after World War II, and offers a critical analysis of race, violence, and modernity in German history and contemporary German society. Uli Linke examines how Germans invested the body with meanings that had significance for the larger body politic and investigates how this fits within the larger consumer culture, social memory and the postwar democratization of the country. The book is divided into three sections discussing different aspects of the German cult of the body: Aryan aesthetics, as in the postwar obsession with white nudity; blood aesthetics, as in the demonization of immigrants as a blood-contagion; and cultural violence, as in the images of genocide and dismemberment evoked in political protests during German reunification. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Minority Studies - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social |
| Dewey: 305.800 |
| LCCN: 98-44572 |
| Lexile Measure: 1370 |
| Physical Information: 0.99" H x 6.3" W x 9.31" (1.29 lbs) 288 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 20th Century - Cultural Region - Germany - Ethnic Orientation - German |
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| Publisher Description: First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. |