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Chapter 28 - Brecht and German Studies

from Part III - The World’s Brecht

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 May 2021

By
Hunter Bivens
Edited by
Stephen Brockmann
Stephen Brockmann
Affiliation:
Carnegie Mellon University, Pennsylvania
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Summary

This essay sketches Brecht’s impact on the development of German Studies as a discipline in the United States, and then briefly comments on the contemporary understanding of what German Studies is and does in the US academy and what Brecht might have to do with that. In other words, this essay is intended neither as an overview of Brecht scholarship in the North American or German (East and West) academic contexts nor as review of Brecht in performance or performance studies. Rather, the essay questions what kind of notion of academic work the various incarnations and evocations of Brecht and Brechtian practice have authorized in the US.

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Bertolt BrechtGerman StudiesNew LeftMarxismfeminismcritical theorypostmodernismneoliberalism
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Bertolt Brecht in Context , pp. 242 - 248
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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