CURRENT ISSUE VOLUME XXXII, NUMBER 2 (May 2009) ABSTRACTS The Lusitania Effect: America’s Mobilization against Germany in World War I 241 Frank Trommler The Garden as Literature/Literary Gardens: Notes on Barbara Frischmuth’s Garden Diaries 267 Edith Toegel Der „Historikerstreit“ und die politische Deutungskultur der Bundesrepublik Deutschland 279 Steffen Kailitz Archeology as Spectacle: Heinrich Schliemann’s Media of Excavation 303 Kathrin Maurer Performativity and the Dialectic of Time in Thomas Mann’s Der Zauberberg 319 Joshua Kavaloski “Germany’s Eternal Son:” The Genesis of the Ernst Thälmann Myth, 1930–1950 343 Russel Lemmons The “Tragic Mulatto” in Three Nineteenth-Century German Antislavery Texts 357 Judith E. Martin Deserters from the Bundeswehr on Page and Screen: Shifting Cultural Meanings of an Act between Desertion from the Wehrmacht and Conscientious Objection 377 Andrew Plowman Book and Film Reviews 397-478 ABSTRACTS UPCOMING ISSUE VOLUME XXXII, NUMBER 3 (Oct. 2009) ABSTRACTS Schiller’s An die Freude and the Question of Freedom 479 Gail K. Hart From Grids to Vanishing Points: W. G. Sebald’s Critique of Visual-Representational Orders in Die Ringe des Saturn 495 Richard T. Gray Mourning Comrades: Communist Funerary Rituals in Cologne during the Weimar Republic 527 Sara Ann Sewell Gustav Freytag’s Bilder aus der deutschen Vergangenheit and the Meaning of German History 549 Larry L. Ping Normativität und Transgression: Kleists Prinz Friedrich von Homburg und die obszöne Unterseite des Gesetzes 569 Dominik Finkelde Vom alternativen Laden zum Dienstleistungsbetrieb: the Berliner Geschichtswerkstatt. A Case Study in Activist Memory Politics 591 Jenny Wüstenberg Leopold von Schroeder’s Imagined India: Buddhist Spirituality and Christian Politics During the Wilhelmine Era Perry Myers “Originalnatur” in Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre Michael E Auer Book and Film Reviews ABSTRACTS PRECEDING ISSUE VOLUME XXXII, NUMBER 1 (Feb. 2009) ABSTRACTS Music as a Weapon? Ton Steine Scherben and the Politics of Rock in Cold War Berlin 1 Timothy S. Brown Why Germany Reformed Public Pensions, but the United States Did Not 23 Stephen J. Silvia Der Roman als Ausdruck des kulturellen Pluralismus: Überlegungen anhand der Romane Die Reise nach Trient von Kajetan Kovic und Nachleben von Gertrud Wilker 51 Vesna Kondric Horvat O liebes Land, o Belgiens Erde: The Development of the German-Speaking Community in Belgium Reflected in the Light of the Flemish Struggle for Autonomy 65 Jeroen Dewulf Relocating the Heimat: Great War Internment Literature from the Isle of Man 82 Jennifer Kewley Draskau The Lives of Neighbors: Modes of Surveillance and Voyeurism in Die Mörder sind unter uns 107 Robert Schechtman Weimar Germany as Seen by an Englishwoman: British Women Writers and the Weimar Republic 129 Colin Storer German Realism in the Postal Office: Mail-Traffic, Violence and Nostalgia in Theodor Storm’s “Hans und Heinz Kirch” and Wilhelm Raabe’s Stopfkuchen 148 Ilinca Iurascu Book and Film Reviews 165-240 ABSTRACTS Previous Issues