The unique perspective of the “other witnesses” included here—that of immigrant outsiders, foreigners who wrote primarily for a minority-language group in the United States—provides the
reader with a new understanding of this important period of America’s growth and development. Included are works by Christian Essellen, Reinhold Solger, Mathilde Franziska Anneke, Theodor
Kirchhoff, Udo Brachvogel, Robert Reitzel, Julius Gugler, Edna Fern, Lotte Leser, and others: plays, short stories, and poems, as well as selections from novels, essays, and memoirs. Some of
the texts have never appeared in book form, and still others are published here for the first time. Introductory essays to each chapter provide background information and point the way for
further research. The volume will be a welcome addition to the collections of institutional libraries, historians, and Germanists alike.
