German Orientalisms

by Todd Curtis Kontje

Todd Kontje's German Orientalisms offers a fresh examination of the role of the East in the "Kontje has pulled off the amazing feat of a grand narrative: from the epic literature of the Middle Ages to very recent texts on the emerging multicultural Germany. Kontje's grand narrative, it should be noted, is not at all simplistic or reductionistic. He gets at the individual texts in complex ways, and he can tease out multidimensional features...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472113925
• ISBN13: 9780472113927
• Release Date: March 2004
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 316 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.2"