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Multiculturalism in transit a German-American exchange /
"Multiculturalism is a controversial topic both in the United States and in Germany. This interdisciplinary collection of essays by German scholars in American Studies and American scholars in German Studies analyzes the "other" from this dual perspective and from disciplines such as...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Berghahn Books,
1998.
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| Colección: | International political currents ;
vol. 3. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Foreword / Dieter Dettke
- Introduction / Klaus J. Milich and Jeffrey M. Peck
- I. Theorizing Comparisons. 1. The Uses of Comparison / Gisela Welz. 2. Race, Color ... and Creed / Timothy Brennan. 3. The Politics of Difference: Theories and Practice in a Comparative U.S.-German Perspective / Berndt Ostendorf
- II. Gender and Race
- Two Categories of Multiculturalism. 4. Gender in a Transatlantic Perspective / Renate Hof. 5. Feminisms in Transit: American Feminist Germanists Construct a Multicultural Germany / Sara Lennox. 6. The Germanification of Black Women's Literature / Anne Koenen
- III. American Studies in Germany
- German Studies in America. 7. Multiculturality in the German Democratic Republic and the Reception of African-American Literature / Friederike Hajek. 8. American Studies East and West: A Multicultural Project? / Catrin Gersdorf. 9. Transnational American Studies: Negotiating Cultures of Difference
- Multicultural Identities, Communities, and Border Discourses / Gunter H. Lenz. 10. Multiculturalism and the European Connection: Theme Park or Dual Citizenship? / Frank Trommler. 11. Inventing the Nation: Literary Study As a Discipline of Identity / Hinrich C. Seeba
- IV. Multiculturalism in the Transatlantic Sphere. 12. Geographies of Memory: Protocols of Writing in the Borderlands / Azade Seyhan. 13. The Transatlantic Ties of Cultural Pluralism
- Germany and the United States: Horace M. Kallen and Daniel Cohn-Bendit / Alfred Hornung. 14. Wong Kim Ark and the Determination of United States Citizenship / Brook Thomas. 15. The Discourse of Differentiation: German Political Membership / Gregg O. Kvistad. 16. Multiculturalism, Nationalism, and the Political Consensus in the United States and in Germany / Hans-Jurgen Puhle.