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This collection, for the first time, explores women's self-conceptions and representations of women's and gender roles in society in their own Expressionist works. How did women approach themes commonly considered to be characteristic of the Expressionist movement, and did they address other themes or aesthetics and styles not currently represented in the canon? Women in German Expressionism centers its analysis on gender, together with difference, ethnicity, intersectionality, and identity, to approach artworks and texts in more nuanced ways, engaging solidly established theoretical and sociohistorical approaches that enhance and update our understanding of the material under investigation. It moves beyond the masculine, "New Man," viewpoint so firmly associated with German Expressionism and examines alternative, critical, and divergent interpretations of the changing world at the time. This collection seeks to broaden the theorization, scholarship, and reception of German Expressionism by—much belatedly—including works by women, and by shifting or redefining firmly established concepts and topics carrying only the imprint of male authors and artists to this day.

Explores women s self-conceptions and representations of women s and gender roles in society in their own Expressionist works. The book centres its analysis on gender, together with difference, ethnicity, intersectionality, and identity, to approach artworks and texts in more nuanced ways

In this book, authors engage in an interdisciplinary discourse of theory and practice on the concept of personal conviction, addressing the variety of grey zones that mark the concept. Bias, Belief, and Conviction in an Age of Fake Facts discusses where our convictions come from and whether we are aware of them, why they compel us to certain actions, and whether we can change our convictions when presented with opposing evidence, which prove our personal convictions "wrong". Scholars from philosophy, psychology, comparative literature, media studies, applied linguistics, intercultural communication, and education shed light on the topic of personal conviction, crossing disciplinary boundaries and asking questions not only of importance to scholars but also related to the role and possible impact of conviction in the public sphere, education, and in political and cultural discourse. By taking a critical look at personal conviction as an element of inquiry within the humanities and social sciences, this book will contribute substantially to the study of conviction as an aspect of the self we all carry within us and are called upon to examine. It will be of particular interest to scholars in communication and journalism studies, media studies, philosophy, and psychology

Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Introduction -- Into the Slipstream of Flusser's "Field of Possibilities" -- First Scenario: What If . . . -- Part I. Scenes from Family Life -- Second Scenario: Grandmother -- Third Scenario: Grandfather -- Fourth Scenario: Great Uncle -- Fifth Scenario: Brothers -- Sixth Scenario: Son -- Seventh Scenario: Grandchildren -- Eighth Scenario: Great-Grandchildren -- Part II. Scenes from Economic Life -- Ninth Scenario: Economic Miracle -- Tenth Scenario: Foreign Aid -- Eleventh Scenario: Mechanical Engineering -- Twelfth Scenario: Agriculture -- Thirteenth Scenario: Chemical Industry -- Fourteenth Scenario: Animal Husbandry -- Part III. Scenes from Politics -- Fifteenth Scenario: War -- Sixteenth Scenario: Aural Obedience -- Seventeenth Scenario: Perpetual Peace -- Eighteenth Scenario: Revolution -- Nineteenth Scenario: Parliamentary Democracy -- Twentieth Scenario: Aryan Imperialism -- Twenty-First Scenario: Black Is Beautiful -- Part IV. Showdown -- Twenty-Second Scenario: A Breather -- Afterword -- Acknowledgments -- Notes.

This collection examines cultural interactions between Germany and Brazil from the Early Modern period to the present day. The contributors represent various academic disciplines, including German Studies, Luso-Afro-Brazilian Studies, Cultural Studies, Linguistics, Art History and the social sciences. Their essays cover a wide range of works and media and offer a much-needed rethinking of the intercultural paradigm for the humanities --

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- KulturConfusão: On German-Brazilian Hybridities and Intercultural Hermeneutics / Finger, Anke / Kathöfer, Gabi / Larkosh, Christopher -- Indigenous Projections -- Germans and Indians in Brazil: The Transatlantic Construction of Ethnic Identity in the Discourse of Indian Protection / Ritz-Deutch, Ute -- "Paradise with Black Angels": Brazil in Eighteenth-Century Germany / Clara, Fernando -- Devouring Culture: Cannibalism, National Identity, and Nineteenth-Century German Emigration to Brazil / Kathöfer, Gabi -- Cultural Entanglements and Ethnographic Refractions: Theodor Koch-Grünberg in Brazil / Beebee, Thomas O. -- Everyday Cultures and Media -- German-Brazilian Cultural Exchange in the Times of the Dictatorship: The Cultural Magazine Intercâmbio / Musser, Ricarda -- From Documentation to Dialogue: On Bringing Brazilian Popular Music and Jazz to West Germany / Hurley, Andrew W. -- Conceptual Metaphors: A Culture-Specific Construction of Meaning Using the "Life Is War" Metaphor in Brazilian and German Rap Lyrics / Schröder, Ulrike -- Transnational Film History? Um Cinema Teuto-Brasileiro / Fuhrmann, Wolfgang -- Literary Fusions and Interstitial Spaces -- Tropical Subjectivity and the European Tradition of Bildung: Macunaíma, a Hero Without a Character, by Mário de Andrade / Nitschack, Horst -- "Everywhere Paradise Is Lost": The Brazilian National Myth in the Works of Refugees of Nazism / Eckl, Marlen -- Submarine: Germany Resurfacing in the Contemporary Brazilian Novel / Larkosh, Christopher -- "Exiled from the World": German Expressionism, Brazilian Modernism, and the Interstitial Primitivism of Lasar Segall / Wolfe, Edith -- Between São Paulo and Stuttgart: Multilingualism, Translation, and Interculturality in Haroldo de Campos's and Vilém Flusser's Work / Guldin, Rainer -- Contributors -- Index

Vilem Flusser (1920-1991) has long been known and celebrated in Europe and Brazil primarily as a media theorist. Only recently have other facets of his accomplishments come to light, clearly establishing Flusser as a key thinker. An accessible and thorough introduction to Flusser's thought, this book reveals his engagement with a wide array of disciplines, from communication studies, posthuman philosophy, media studies, and history to art and art history, migrant studies, anthropology, and film studies. The first to connect Flusser's entire oeuvre, this volume shows how his works on media theo