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<p class="MsoNormal">The Waterloo Centre for German Studies (WCGS) is pleased to announce the six finalists for the WCGS Book Prize. The prize, valued at CAD $2000, is for books in any area of German studies published by first-time authors in 2017.
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<p class="MsoNormal">The shortlist demonstrates the rich and diverse nature of German studies scholarship today. The Waterloo Centre for German Studies congratulates the authors on their fine achievement. The finalists are:</p>
<p><b>Katherine Stone</b> (University of Warwick), <em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Women and National Socialism in Postwar German Literature: Gender, Memory, and Subjectivity</span></em> (Boydell and Brewer). Stone "investigates why the question
of women's complicity in National Socialism has struggled to capture the collective imagination, examining how a variety of female authors have conceptualized the role of women in the Third Reich." Further information: <a href="https://boydellandbrewer.com/women-and-national-socialism-in-postwar-german-literature.html">https://boydellandbrewer.com/women-and-national-socialism-in-postwar-german-literature.html</a></p>
<p><b>Lisa M. Todd</b> (University of New Brunswick),<em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Sexual Treason in Germany during the First World War</span></em> (Palgrave Macmillan). Todd’s book "provides the first comprehensive study of sexual lives
in Germany and German-occupied Europe during the First World War." Further information: <a href="https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783319515137">https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783319515137</a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Alice Weinreb</b> (Loyola University, Chicago), <i>Modern Hungers: Food and Power in Twentieth-Century Germany</i> (Oxford University Press). Weinreb’s monograph is "the first book to show how hunger has been central to German politics
throughout the twentieth century." Further information: <a href="https://global.oup.com/academic/product/modern-hungers-9780190605094?cc=ca&lang=en&">https://global.oup.com/academic/product/modern-hungers-9780190605094?cc=ca&lang=en&</a></p>
<p><b>Erica Wickerson</b> (St. John's College, Cambridge), <em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">The Architecture of Narrative Time: Thomas Mann and the Problems of Modern Narrative</span></em> (Oxford University Press). Wickerson’s study is "an
original view on how an analysis of time in literature can open our eyes to how we express human experience." Further information:
<a href="https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-architecture-of-narrative-time-9780198793274?cc=ca&lang=en&">
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-architecture-of-narrative-time-9780198793274?cc=ca&lang=en&</a></p>
<p><b>Jonathon O. Wipplinger</b> (<span style="color:black">University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee)</span>, <em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">The Jazz Republic: Music, Race, and American Culture in Weimar Germany</span></em> (University of Michigan
Press). Wipplinger "e<span style="color:black">xamines jazz music and the jazz artists who shaped Germany’s exposure to this African American art form from 1919 through 1933." Further information: <a href="https://www.press.umich.edu/9417070/jazz_republic">https://www.press.umich.edu/9417070/jazz_republic</a></span></p>
<p><b>Jenny Wüstenberg</b> (York University), <em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Civil Society and Memory in Postwar</span></em> <em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Germany
</span></em><em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;font-style:normal">(</span></em>Cambridge University Press). Blending “<span style="color:#1F1F1E">history and social science, this book tracks the role of social movements in shaping German public
memory and values since 1945." </span><span style="color:black">Further information: </span><span style="color:#1F1F1E"><a href="https://www.cambridge.org/ca/academic/subjects/politics-international-relations/european-government-politics-and-policy/civil-society-and-memory-postwar-germany?format=HB">https://www.cambridge.org/ca/academic/subjects/politics-international-relations/european-government-politics-and-policy/civil-society-and-memory-postwar-germany?format=HB</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The winning book will be announced in mid-January 2019. For more information on the WCGS Book Prize, go to
<a href="https://uwaterloo.ca/centre-for-german-studies/research-activities-and-opportunities/wcgs-book-prize">
https://uwaterloo.ca/centre-for-german-studies/research-activities-and-opportunities/wcgs-book-prize</a>. Please note that nominations for the WCGS Book Prize for books published in 2018 will open in the new year.
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