This is a comprehensive and up-to-date critical examination of cultural diversity in Germanic-speaking societies. It goes beyond ethnic, religious, and gender stereotypes to show minority groups as active participants in German history rather than as passive victims. This collection of critical and theoretical essays seeks to interpret the current philosophical, aesthetic, and literary thinking about diversity in literature and language.
The book is divided into four parts: literary analyses of works produced by members of minority populations, linguistic discussions and case studies of minority groups, structures and strategies of discourse and prejudice, and studies of remedies for problems of racism and discrimination. Some of the most significant writers and thinkers in the field have contributed, making this volume of critical concern to scholars and students of German, modern languages, and comparative studies.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction: Cultural and Linguistic Diversity in Germanic-Speaking Societies by Carol Aisha Blackshire-Belay
Literary Analysis: Motifs and Reflective Designs
Die Lebens-Ansichten des Katers Murr: Romantic Perspectives on "Us" and "Them" by Christopher R. Clason
Work and Freedom in the Minority Community: Ferdinano von Saar's Die Troglodytin by Virginia L. Lewis
"Libuse's Success and Francine's Bitterness": Libuse Moní koVÁ's and Her Protagonist in Pavane fü r eine verstorbene Infantin by Jozef A. Modzelewski
Recent Romanian-German Poetry: Bossert, Hodjak, Modoi, Britz by Fritz H. Kö nig
Orchids and Mother Tongues: Telling Turkish-German Stories by Patricia Anne Simpson
"Wir haben ihnen Romanautoren gesandt": Aras Ö ren's Eine verspä tete Abrechnung and Gü ney Dal's Der enthaarte Affe by Susan Kassouf
Revisionary Revelations: Women and Self-Worth in Two West German Short Stories by Lisa Tyler
A Burning Issue: Isolde's Oath in Its Historical Context by Vickie Ziegler
Linguistic Portrayals: Assessment and Prognosis
Languages and Peoples in Contact: Early Germanic and Early Finnic by Thomas W. Juntune
Linguistic Aspects of the Romanian-Saxon Contact in Transylvania by Adrian Poruciuc
Migration and Bilingualism by Ulrich Steinmü ller
Language, Literature, and the Question of Cultural Identity: Problems of the German-Swiss by Romey Sabalius
The Disruption of a Triglossic Situation as a Motivating Factor for Language Death: The Case of Western Yiddish by Kerstin Hoge
A Demographic Perspective on the Shift from Irish to English by Terence Odlin
Gastarberiterdeutsch, "Foreign Workers' German": An Industrial Pidgin by Glen G. Gilbert and Pavlos Pavlou
Marginal Linguistic Existence: The Case of an Italian Woman by Carol Aisha Blackshire-Belay
Cultural and Political Perspectives: Contemporary and Historical Realities
Reflections on the "Political" Scholar by Peter O'Brien
Language Policy for a Post-Apartheid South Africa: Models and Questions by Gudrun Oberprieler
Cultural Complementarities in Frischmuth's Turkish Novel by Peter Hertz-Ohmes
Icelandic Literature: A Historical Luxury? by Aitor Yraola
"History Presupposes Memory": The Diverse Discourse on Connectedness by Ingo Roland Stoehr
Narrative Strategies as Cultural Vehicles: On Rafik Schami's Novel Erzä hler der Nacht by Iman O. Khalil
The Stories of Rafik Schami as Reflections of His Psychopolitical Program by Donna Kinerney
Discourse, Structures, and Strategies: The Problem of Prejudice and Perception
German Literature by Female Foreigners by Irmgard Ackermann
The Encounter with the Other World: André Kaminski's Search for the Jewish Past by Albrecht Classen
Fanny Lewald and Judaism: The Writer, the Woman, the Prussian, the Jew by Hanna B. Lewis
German-Writing Authors in Israel by Margarita Pazi
Alaska-Trip: Exported GDR Anti-Semitism by Victoria Joan Moessner
The Construction of Homosexuality in National Socialist Germany by Robert Vocca
Homosexual Identity (Misin)Formation in Hesse's Demian by Patrick J. Gignac
Suggestions for Further Reading
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