Transatlantic Negotiations

Edited by Christa Buschendorf and Astrid Franke.

"Transatlantic Negotiations" was the theme of the 52. annual convention of the German Association for American Studies, held in Frankfurt in 2005. Each of the 14 contributions to this volume illuminates explicitly or implicitly the intricacies of negotiations embedded in different relationships of power as they reverberate through history. Together they present a wide range of forms of interaction between Europe, Africa, and America, from fruitful exchange to contemptuous or thoughtless discrimination. The collection thus points to a salient feature of transatlantic relations, namely the simultaneity of mutual enriching forms of negotiation, marked by reciprocity, with drastic forms of inequality in which the negotiating power is almost entirely one-sided. Contents: Nicole Waller: Captain John Smith's True Travels between Mediterranean and Atlantic Worlds. - Bernd Herzogenrath: The Angel and the Animalculae. Cotton Mather and Inoculation. - Katharina Erhard: Republican Orientalism as a Prelude to Manifest Destiny. - Mischa Honeck: "Towards a More Fortunate Land". Christoph Daniel Ebeling and the American Republic. - James T. Kloppenberg: Tocqueville at 200. Reconsidering "Democracy in America". - Herwig Friedl: Proper Ways of Thinking Modernism. The Amiable Disagreements of William James and Henri Bergson. - Susan Winniett: A Room for Giovanni in the House of Fiction. James's and Baldwin's Transatlantic Coups. - Astrid Haas: "To Russia and Myself". Claude McKay, Langston Hughes, and the Soviet Union. - Rebecca C. Potter: The German We Loved to Hate. Erich von Stroheim's Hollywood Villain and its Legacy . - Joan Retallack: Gertrude Stein in the Forties. Politics and Poethics in Catastrophic Times. - Werner Sollors: "A Foreign Affair". Notes Toward a Cultural History of the American Occupation of German after WW2. - Ulf Schulenberg: Reading Transitory Signs and Disappearing Traces. Rorty, Adorno, and the Idea of a Literary Culture. - Kirsten Twelsbeck: A Passing Era. Memory, Nation, and the Jew in American and South African Literature. - Carl Pedersen: Beyond the Black Atlantic. Geopolitics and the African Diaspora. XIII,261 Seiten mit 20 Abb., gebunden (American Studies - A Monograph Series; Vol. 148/Universitätsverlag Winter 2007)