Carol A. Blackshire-Belay

The Germanic Mosaic (eBook, PDF)

Cultural and Linguistic Diversity in Society

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Dezember 1993
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780313019838
• Artikelnr.: 68184246

Autorenporträt

CAROL AISHA BLACKSHIRE-BELAY is professor and chair of the Department of Africana Studies at Indiana State University. Her work centers on the impact of Africa on German culture and vice versa, as well as the emergence of Ebonics, Afrocentric language analysis, African-German relations, African/African American History, and African Diaspora Studies. She is the author or editor of nine books including Language and Liteerature in the African American Imagination (Greenwood, 1992), The German Mosaic (Greenwood, 1993), and The Image of Africa in German Society. She also serves as the director of the International African-German Network. Dr. Blackshire-Belay is widely recognized as one of the leading experts on historical and contemporary issues facing African-descended people in contemporary western European society.

Inhaltsangabe

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 MoníkoVÁ's
and Her Protagonist in Pavane für eine verstorbene Infantin by Jozef A.
Modzelewski Recent Romanian-German Poetry: Bossert, Hodjak, Modoi, Britz by
Fritz H. König Orchids and Mother Tongues: Telling Turkish-German Stories
by Patricia Anne Simpson "Wir haben ihnen Romanautoren gesandt": Aras
Ören's Eine verspätete Abrechnung and Güney 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
Steinmüller 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 Erzähler 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 Index