German Studies Review 32/2 (May 2009) Table of Contents:

The Lusitania Effect: 241
America’s Mobilization against Germany in World War I
FRANK TROMMLER

The Garden as Literature/Literary Gardens: 267
Notes on Barbara Frischmuth’s Garden Diaries
EDITH TOEGEL

Der „Historikerstreit“ und die politische Deutungskultur der 279
Bundesrepublik Deutschland
STEFFEN KAILITZ

Archeology as Spectacle: Heinrich Schliemann’s Media of Excavation 303
KATHRIN MAURER

Performativity and the Dialectic of Time in Thomas Mann’s 319
Der Zauberberg
JOSHUA KAVALOSKI

“Germany’s Eternal Son:” 343
The Genesis of the Ernst Thälmann Myth, 1930–1950
RUSSEL LEMMONS

The “Tragic Mulatto” in Three Nineteenth-Century German 357
Antislavery Texts
JUDITH E. MARTIN

Deserters from the Bundeswehr on Page and Screen: 377
Shifting Cultural Meanings of an Act between Desertion
from the Wehrmacht and Conscientious Objection
ANDREW PLOWMAN