UID:
almafu_9961652780302883
Format:
1 online resource (273 p.)
ISBN:
9781789206012
Series Statement:
International Political Currents ; 3
Content:
Multiculturalism is one of the most controversial topics in both the United States and Germany.This interdisciplinary collection of essays by German scholars in American Studies and American scholars in German Studies analyze the "other" from this dual perspective and from their respective disciplines such as literary and cultural studies, political science, anthropology,and history. More particularly they examine multiculturalism in terms of national and ethnic identities, as well as gender and race, and look at the disciplines and institutions that produce and legitimize discourses on subjects such as minority literatures, feminism, and the notion of foreignness itself. What becomes clear is the fact that careful attention must be paid to the particular conditions and different ideological concepts that shape this term, i.e., the "national" historical, political, social, and institutional contexts in which it appears, circulates, and accrues meanings. Contributors: G. Welz, T. Brennan, B. Ostendorf, R. Hof, S. Lennox, A. Koenen, F. Hajek, C.Gersdorf, G. H. Lenz, F. Trommler, H. C. Seeba, A. Seyhan, A. Hornung, B. Thomas, G. O. Kvistad, H.-J. Puhle
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Foreword --
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Introduction --
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Part I THEORIZING COMPARISONS --
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1. The Uses of Comparison --
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2. Race, Color … and Creed --
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3. The Politics of Difference: Theories and Practice in a Comparative U.S.-German Perspective --
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Part II GENDER AND RACE— TWO CATEGORIES OF MULTICULTURALISM --
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4. Gender in a Transatlantic Perspective --
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5. Feminisms in Transit: American Feminist Germanists Construct a Multicultural Germany --
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6. The Germanification of Black Women’s Literature --
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Part III AMERICAN STUDIES IN GERMANY—GERMAN STUDIES IN AMERICA --
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7. Multiculturality in the German Democratic Republic and the Reception of African-American Literature --
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8. American Studies East and West: A Multicultural Project? --
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9. Transnational American Studies: Negotiating Cultures of Difference—Multicultural Identities, Communities, and Border Discourses --
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10. Multiculturalism and the European Connection: Theme Park or Dual Citizenship? --
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11. Inventing the Nation: Literary Study As a Discipline of Identity --
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Part IV MULTICULTURALISM IN THE TRANSATLANTIC SPHERE --
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12. Geographies of Memory: Protocols of Writing in the Borderlands --
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13. The Transatlantic Ties of Cultural Pluralism— Germany and the United States: Horace M. Kallen and Daniel Cohn-Bendit --
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14. Wong Kim Ark and the Determination of United States Citizenship --
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15. The Discourse of Differentiation: German Political Membership --
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16. Multiculturalism, Nationalism, and the Political Consensus in the United States and in Germany --
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List of Contributors --
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References --
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Index
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In English.
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9781789206012
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781789206012?locatt=mode:legacy
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781789206012
