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contradictionsofheroescouldalsoberegardedasthevisiblepersonifi-
cationoftheambivalencethatrelationsbetweenstatesandnationsface.
TheseambiguitiesareappealinglygoodexamplesofAmerican-German
relations,aswellasoftransatlanticrelationsintoday’sworld,butthis
shouldnotbeconfusedorequatedwithrealsituationsintheliterary
sense.Thiscomparativeanalysismakesusawareofarchetypal(not
identical)rolemodels.
Secondly,WilliamShakespearewasoncecalled4thegreatauthorof
America’(Cullen2007:36)byGermanimmigrantswhocametoAme-
ricainthe19thCentury.Hisdramas,poems,andsonnetswerewidely
Figures2-3:GermaniaattheWatchontheRhineaspersonifcationofGerman
nation(ontheleft)andUncleSaminahalf-lengthportrait,pointingatthe
vieweraspartoftheUnitedStatesgovernmentefforttorecruitsoldiersduring
WorldWarIasthepersonifcationofU.S.government(ontheright).3
3
Sources:(ontheleft)HermannWislicenus,1873,GermaniaorTheWatchonthe
Rhine,GermanHistoricalMuseum,Berlin,Inv.no.:Gm92/12;(ontheright)James
MontgomeryFlagg,1917,IwantyoufortheU.S.Armynearestrecruitingstation,[in:]
LibraryofCongressPrintsandPhotographs1995:43.
