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Literatur / Literature
Wolf Kindermann (Ed.)
Transcending Boundaries
Essays in Honor of Gisela Hermann-Brennecke
This volume presents sixteen essays by friends and colleagues celebrating Gisela Hermann-Brennecke’s 60th birthday.
Since the early 1970s, when she emerged as one of the outstanding German specialists in language acquisition and language
teaching, she has been active in research and teaching at various German universities (Münster, Osnabrück, Vechta,
and Halle-Wittenberg) and abroad, in the U.K. (Hull University), France (Université Paris V – Sorbonne; Université
Catholique de l’Ouest – Angers), Hungary (Janus Pannonius University - Pecs), and in the U.S. (University of Cincinnati/Ohio;
University of New Mexico – Albuquerque).
The wide range of Gisela Hermann-Brennecke’s research interests and publications – transcending boundaries – is mirrored
in the diversity of the contributions in this volume: language learning and language policy – studies in English,
American, and Postcolonial literatures and cultures – creative writing.
vol. 13, 2007, 312 pp., 29,90 €, pb., ISBN 978-3-8258-0763-4
Alexander Brock; Uwe Küchler; Anne Schröder (Hrsg.) NEU
Explorations and Extrapolations: Applying English and American Studies
vol. 14, Spring 2011, ca. 184 pp., ca. 19,90 €, pb., ISBN 978-3-8258-1865-4
Contributions to Asian American Literary Studies
edited by Rocío G. Davis (City University of Hong Kong) and Sämi Ludwig (Université de
Haute-Alsace Mulhouse)
Rocío G. Davis; Sämi Ludwig (Eds.)
Asian American Literature in the International Context
Readings on Fiction, Poetry, and Performance
vol. 1, 2002, 272 pp., 25,90 €, pb., ISBN 3-8258-5710-7
Alicia Otano
Speaking the Past
Child Perspective in the Asian American “Bildungsroman”
Child perspective is a symbolic narrative strategy that designs multilayered possibilities for meaning in ethnic writing.
This book positions Asian American bildungsromane in the context of American writing about children, reading them
through the lens of their narrators ,– the oftentimes dual child/adult perspective ,– to examine how narrative point of view
nuances and shapes issues of personal, ethnic, and national positioning. This approach privileges the authors’ narrative
choices and engagement with genre, revealing how these critical writerly decisions construct texts that signify on multiple
levels, and dialogue productively with ofher texts. Their interpretation and creative negotiation of the key elements of
narrative perspective lead us to uncover aspects which are constitutive of the successful manipulation of narrative voice.
The texts analyzed in this study, by Gus Lee, Cecilia Manguerra Brainard, Heinz Insu Fenkl, Lois-Ann Yamanaka, and
Fiona Cheong, demonstrate the flexibility of this narrative technique, and its usefulness as a critical tool though which
important thematic issues ,– family, race, culture, war, assimilation, and language ,– may be deployed. Reading the way
Asian American texts manipulate child perspective positions these texts within developing critical paradigms and allows
us to examine the manner in which they influence the development of American literature and the theory that reads it.
vol. 2, 2004, 184 pp., 19,90 €, br., ISBN 3-8258-7748-5
Begoña Simal; Elisabetta Marino (eds.)
Transnational, National, and Personal Voices
New Perspectives on Asian American and Asian Diasporic Women Writers
The growing heterogeneity of Asian American and Asian diasporic voices has also given rise to variegated theoretical
approaches to these literatures. This book attempts to encompass both the increasing awareness of diasporic and transnational
issues, and more “traditional” analyses of Asian American culture and literature. Thus, the articles in this collection
range from investigations into the politics of literary and cinematic representation, to “digging” into the past through
“literary archeology”, or analyzing how “consequential” bodies can be in recent literature by Asian American and Asian
diasporic women writers. The book closes with an interview with critic and writer Shirley Lim, where she insightfully
deals with these “transnational, national, and personal” issues.
vol. 3, 2005, 264 pp., 29,90 €, br., ISBN 3-8258-8278-0
Rocío G. Davis; Jaume Aurell; Ana Beatriz Delgado (Eds.)
Ethnic Life Writing and Histories
Genres, Performance, and Culture
This collection focuses on how literary creativity and historical inscriptions produce texts that require nuanced readings
of forms of life writing. These reflections support the use of life writing as an interpretative frame for historical information,
validating it for historical discourse as the act of telling and writing one’s story affirms as it performs identity. Our
approach is based on a methodology that connects genre studies and historiography, to arrive at conclusions about the
writing of the history of globalization, immigration, racial and ethnic negotiation.
vol. 4, 2007, 256 pp., 24,90 €, pb., ISBN 978-3-8258-0257-8
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