"Mountain of destiny" Nanga Parbat and its path into the German imagination
Never has a mountain occupied the German imagination longer and more thoroughly than Nanga Parbat (8,125m), the world's ninth-highest peak, located in the extreme western part of the Himalaya chain inpresent-day Pakistan. Repeatedly referred to in the 1930s as the German "mountain of desti...
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Rochester, NY
Boydell & Brewer
2016
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| Schriftenreihe: | Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture
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Inhaltsangabe:
- I. Mountains in the German Imagination, 1919-53
- Between the Wars (1919-39)
- The postwar years (1945-53)
- II. Imprinting Nanga Parbat
- Reading defeat
- Narrating success
- III. Imagi(ni)ng the German "Mountain of destiny"
- Hiding the obvious
- Seeing the unseen