Nord Amerika

Literatur / Literature
naissance/Weimar Republic, could not even be liquidated by the Third Reich’s ‘Degenerate Art’ campaigns, and, with
new media available to further exchanges, is still increasingly empowering and inspiring participants on both sides of the
Atlantic.
vol. 18, 2010, 392 pp., 39,90 €, pb., ISBN 978-3-643-10109-9
Isabel Soto Garcia; Violet M. Johnson (Eds.) NEU
Western Fictions, Black Realities
Meanings of Blackness and Modernities
vol. 19, Spring 2011, ca. 336 pp., ca. 29,90 €, pb., ISBN 978-3-643-10121-1
Simon Dickel NEU
The Harlem Renaissance, the Protest Era, and Constructions of Black Gay Identity in the 1980s and 90s
This book explores key texts of the black gay culture of the 1980s and 90s. Starting with an analysis of the political discourse
in anthologies such as In the Life and Brother to Brother, it identifies the references to the Harlem Renaissance
and the Protest Era as common elements of black gay discourse. This connection to African American cultural and political
traditions legitimizes black gay identity and criticizes the construction of gay identity as white. Readings of Isaac
Julien’s Looking for Langston, Samuel R. Delany’s „Atlantis: Model 1924“ and The Motion of Light in Water,Melvin
Dixon’s Vanishing Rooms, Randall Kenan’s A Visitation of Spirits and Steven Corbin’s No Easy Place to Be demonstrate
how these strategies of signifying are used in affirmative, humorous, and ironic ways.
vol. 20, Spring 2011, ca. 312 pp., ca. 29,90 €, pb., ISBN 978-3-643-10125-9
Christopher M. Bell (Ed.) NEU
Blackness and Disability
Critical Examinations and Cultural Interventions
Disability Studies has emerged as an incisive inquiry into body politics, intersectionality theory and cultural politics.
While its theories have resulted in less stereotypical considerations of mainstream (read: white) disabled subjects, they
have not had as profound an effect on black disabled subjects. Blackness and Disability examines how disability informs
the experience and representation of racialized subjects. The collection of essays discusses disability in terms of
literature, history, education, cultural studies and sociology in an effort to illuminate how disability informs black body
politics.
vol. 21, Spring 2011, ca. 256 pp., ca. 29,90 €, pb., ISBN 978-3-643-10126-6
Erlanger Studien zur Anglistik und Amerikanistik
hrsg. von Rudolf Freiburg und Heike Paul
Rudolf Freiburg; Jan Schnitker (Hrsg.)
“Do you consider yourself a postmodern author?”
Interviews with Contemporary English Writers
This book presents a collection of twelve interviews with eminent English contemporary writers held during a period of
four years. The book allows an illuminating insight into a very lively and thought-provoking literary culture, stirred not
only by recent ideas of postmodernism but also by the manifold issues of nationality, culture, and gender subjected to permanent
redefinitions towards the end of the twentieth century. The interviews with Peter Ackroyd, John Banville, Julian
Barnes, Alain de Botton, Maureen Duffy, Tibor Fischer, John Fowles, Romesh Gunesekera, Tim Parks, Terry Pratchett,
Jane Rogers, and Adam Thorpe cover topics such as the relationship between writer and public, the role of the literary
tradition, the relevance of contemporary literary theory for the production of literature, images of nationality, intertextuality,
changes in the attitude towards language and meaning, and the reception of literary texts by critical reviewers and
literary critics.
All the interviewers have worked for the ECCEL (Erlangen Centre for Contemporary English Literature).
Bd. 1, 1999, 248 S., 20,90 €, br., ISBN 3-8258-4395-5
Hannah Jacobmeyer
Märchen und Romanzen in der zeitgenössischen englischen Literatur
Im Zentrum einer vielfach konstatierten Renaissance des “Wunderbaren” in der Kultur des ausgehenden 20. Jahrhunderts
stehen die Formen und Strukturen von Märchen und Romanze. Gelten sie uns einerseits als Merkmale einer prämodernen
Narrativik, so sind sie andererseits zu Konstanten von Literatur geworden, die sich durch die Jahrhunderte bis in die
sogenannte postmoderne Literatur hinein nachweisen lassen. Anhand ausgewählter zeitgenössischer Texte der englischen
Literatur zeigt die Autorin, wie Märchen und Romanzen fortleben - aber auch, wo sie sich überschneiden und auf welche
Weise sie in eine endlose, intertextuelle “Echokammer” eingebunden werden. Romanzenmuster erlauben zudem, Einsicht
in die Gemeinsamkeiten hoher und “trivialer” Literatur zu nehmen. Autoren der detailliert analysierten Märchen und
Romanzen sind u. a. Salman Rushdie, A. S. Byatt, Graham Swift, Angela Carter und Barbara Cartland.
Bd. 2, 2000, 224 S., 35,90 €, br., ISBN 3-8258-4686-5
Dieter Meindl
North American Encounters
Essays in U.S. and English and French Canadian Literature and Culture
These essays (in English except for four items in German and French) provide an intercultural perspective. They deal
with such diverse aspects of North American (including Québécois) literature as “Kanadas Verhältnis zu den USA im
Spiegel seiner Literatur,” “Canada and American Slavery”, the Acadian theme in “Longfellow et Antonine Maillet”
and “The Western Love Code: Faulkner, Hébert, Hemingway, and Ondaatje.” The continental context also pervades
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