Paths crossing
Subtitle: essays in German-American studies
By: edited by Cora Lee Kluge
Contributors: Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies (University of Wisconsin--Madison)
Series: German life and civilization -- v. 54
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9783034302210
Notes: Essays presented at a conference held in Madison, Wis., in April 2009 during observances of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the founding of Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies at University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: An expansive and expanding field / Cora Lee Kluge and Mark L. Louden; title: Forced out of Hitler's Reich : five eminent Madisonians / Jost Hermand; title: Elvis and other Germans : some reflections and modest proposals on the study of German-American ethnicity / Walter D. Kamphoefner; title: "That species of property" : Francis Lieber's encounter with slavery and race / Hartmut Keil; title: Sealsfield's Das Kajütenbuch : the half-unfolded spring of German and American literature / Hugh Ridley; title: Taking stock : the disappearance of German-American literature? / Lorie A. Vanchena; title: German-American dialects on different paths to extinction : examples from Haysville, Indiana and New Ulm, Minnesota / Daniel Nützel; title: Performing the American myth by speaking German : changing meanings of ethnic identity between the wars / Steven Hoelscher; title: Situating natural hazards in German-American studies / Uwe Lübken; title: Advancing German-American studies in the digital age : opportunities for collaboration / Louis A. Pitschmann.