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Re: BOOK REVIEW: _Mark Twain Under Fire_, by Joe B. Fulton
Readers of Joe Fulton's _Twain Under Fire_ and Kevin Mac Donnell's review of the book might come under the impression that German scholars of American literature have been unaware that Friedrich Schönemann, an early Mark Twain scholar in Germany, had close ties to the Nazi establishment. This is not the case. Walter Grünzweig first uncovered the complexities of Schönemann's scholarship and ideology in his 1992 essay "Mass Culture and Mass Delusion: A Version of America in the Third Reich." He elaborated on it in a paper delivered at the 2003 Annual Meeting of the German Association for American Studies in Munich. At the same event, literary and cultural scholar Stefan Brandt and historian Philipp Gassert added their insights on the issue. More information is available in Walter Grünzweig's "Mass Culture and Mass Delusion: A Version of America in the Third Reich" (_North Dakota Quaterly_ 60/1992, 130-146). Summaries of the papers delivered at the 2003 GAAS convention can be found at ("American Studies in Twentieth Century Germany: On the History and Pre-History of the German Association for American Studies"). Philipp Gassert's work on the subject has been mainly published in German (_Amerika im Dritten Reich: Ideologie, Propaganda und Volksmeinung, 1933-1945_ [1997], and "Vor der DGfA: Deutsche Amerikaforschung zwischen Erstem Weltkrieg und früher Bundesrepublik," _Amerikaforschung in Deutschland_ Ed. Michael Dreyer et al [2004]). A focused search in Google books will reveal other publications that discuss Schönemann's role in the context of early American Studies in Germany.
Holger Kersten
Magdeburg, Germany
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