The Scholarly Journal in the GDR

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The Scholarly Journal in the GDR is written by Michael Lörch and published by BRILL. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 9004739351 (ISBN 10) and 9789004739352 (ISBN 13).

This volume goes beyond treating periodicals as mere sources of information and explores the forces shaping scholarly journals that typically remain hidden to their readers. It examines the four-decade run of the Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik (ZAA) in the German Democratic Republic using numerous, previously unpublished archival sources. It reveals how, beyond economics and academia, politics and ideology can play a decisive role in how a humanities journal is produced and read across borders. The volume thus provides an eye-opening look at the ways journals are shaped by much more than academic trends, not only in the context of the Cold War, but also today, in our increasingly politicized world.