Sprachen und Literaturen 2003 - LIT Verlag

FORECAAST
(Forum for European Contributions
to African American Studies)
edited by Maria Diedrich, Alessandro Portelli and Justine Tally
Maria Diedrich; Carl Pedersen; Justine Tally (eds.)
Mapping African America
History, Narrative Formation, and the Production of Knowledge
Bd. 1, 1999, 256 S., 30,90 €, br., ISBN 3-8258-3328-3
Stefanie Sievers
Liberating Narratives
The Authorization of Black Female Voices in African American
Women Writers’ Novels of Slavery
Bd. 2, 1999, 232 S., 25,90 €, br., ISBN 3-8258-3919-2
Justine Tally
Paradise Reconsidered
Toni Morrison’s (Hi)stories and Truths
Bd. 3, 1999, 112 S., 17,90 €, br., ISBN 3-8258-4204-5
Dorothea Fischer-Hornung; Alison D. Goeller (eds.)
EmBODYing Liberation
The Black Body in American Dance
A collection of essays concerning the black body in American dance,
EmBODYing Liberation serves as an important contribution to the
growing field of scholarship in African American dance, in particular
the strategies used by individual artists to contest and liberate racialized
stagings of the black body. The collection features special essays
by Thomas DeFrantz and Brenda Dixon Gottschild, as well as an
interview with Isaac Julien.
Bd. 4, 2001, 152 S., 20,90 €, br., ISBN 3-8258-4473-0
Patrick B. Miller; Therese Frey Steffen; Elisabeth Schäfer-
Wünsche (eds.)
The Civil Rights Movement Revisited
Critical Perspectives on the Struggle for Racial Equality in the
United States
The crusade for civil rights was a defining episode of 20th century
U.S. history, reshaping the constitutional, political, social, and economic
life of the nation. This collection of original essays by both European
and American scholars includes close analyses of literature and film,
historical studies of significant themes and events from the turn-of-the
century to the movement years, and assessments of the movement’s
legacies. Ultimately, the articles help examine the ways civil rights
activism, often grounded in the political work of women, has shaped
American consciousness and culture until the outset of the 21st
century.
Bd. 5, 2001, 224 S., 24,90 €, br., ISBN 3-8258-4486-2
Fritz Gysin; Christopher Mulvey (Eds.)
Black Liberation in the Americas
Bd. 6, 2001, 280 S., 24,90 €, br., ISBN 3-8258-5137-0
Justine Tally
The Story of Jazz
Toni Morrison’s Dialogic Imagination
Ever since its publication in 1992, Jazz, probably Toni Morrison’s most
difficult novel to date, has elicited a wide array of critical response.
Many of these analyses, while both thoughtful and thought-provoking,
have provided only partial or inherently inconclusive interpretations.
The title, and certain of the author’s own pronouncements, have led
other critics to focus on the music itself, both as medium and aesthetic
support for the narration.
Bd. 7, 2001, 168 S., 20,90 €, br., ISBN 3-8258-5364-0
Mar Gallego �
Passing Novels in the Harlem Renaissance
Identity Politics and Textual Strategies
Passing Novels in the Harlem Renaissance offers an insightful study of
the significance of passing novels for the literary and intellectual debate
of the Harlem Renaissance. Mar Gallego effectively uncovers the
presence of a subversive component in five of these novels (by James
Weldon Johnson, George Schuyler, Nella Larsen, and Jessie Fauset),
turning them into useful tools to explore the passing phenomenon in all
its richness and complexity. Her compelling study intends to contribute
to the ongoing revision of the parameters conventionally employed
to analyze passing novels by drawing attention to a great variety of
textual strategies such as double consciousness, parody, and multiple
generic covers. Examining the hybrid nature of these texts, Gallego
skillfully highlights their radical critique of the status quo and their
celebration of a distinct African American identity.
“Passing Novels in the Harlem Renaissance is an impressive work of
scholarship and interpretation. It is well researched and stimulating to
read.” Hanna Wallinger, University of Salzburg
“Mar Gallego draws our renewed attention to the uses and subversions
of the trope of passing that have characterized the African American
novelistic tradition also in the twentieth century.” Giulia Fabi,
University of Ferrara
“Mar Gallego’s thorough scholarship now provides us with a new, indepth
and refreshing reading of texts we thought we already knew
something about. A provocative text and a welcome addition to the
field!” Justine Tally, University of La Laguna
Bd. 8, Frühj. 2003, ca. 224 S., ca. 24,90 €, br., ISBN 3-8258-5842-1
Paola Boi; Sabine Broeck (Eds.) �
CrossRoutes – The Meanings of “Race” for the 21st
Century
This collection reflects the still urgent project of historical recuperation,
as well as an examination of literary representations and other cultural
manifestations of the Black Diaspora. Disciplinary work within the
boundaries of African American Studies has been enhanced by more
general considerations of the history of raceänd racism in globalized
contexts. The articles assembled here reflect recent empirical research
as well as challenging theoretical considerations. Contributions address
particular formations of racialized modernity owed to the impact of the
Atlantic slave trade and slavery, and thus broaden the approach to the
Middle Passage, to improve our understanding of it as a constitutive
transatlantic phenomenon in the widest possible sense.
Bd. 9, Frühj. 2003, ca. 272 S., ca. 25,90 €, br., ISBN 3-8258-6651-3
Anglistik/Amerikanistik
Sylvia Mayer (ed.) �
Restoring the Connection to the Natural World
Essays on the African American Environmental Imagination
Since its emergence in the second half of the nineteenth century
American environmentalism had predominantly been a white, middleclass
pursuit, preoccupied with notions of wilderness and wildlife
preservation. Only fairly recently, with the advent of the environmental
justice movement in the 1980s, has American environmentalism
broadened its definition of “environment” to include the concerns
relevant to a community’s way of living. Especially the concerns
of poor urban communities of color, which have been exposed to
environmental hazards disproportionately, have entered the political
agenda. This volume - one of the first collections of ecocritical essays
devoted exclusively to African American texts - shows that African
Americans have contributed to the efforts of the environmental justice
movement not only as political activists, but also as writers. The
essays range from studies of nineteenth- century slave narratives to
twentieth-century texts by Zora Neale Hurston, Claude McKay, Richard
Wright, Charles Johnson, Toni Cade Bambara, Audre Lorde, and
Octavia Butler. Employing a variety of theoretical and methodological
premises, they provide insight into the texts’ various conceptualizations
of “nature,” “culture,” and “humanness” and their implications for
environmental ethics.
Bd. 10, Frühj. 2003, ca. 208 S., ca. 20,90 €, br., ISBN 3-8258-6732-3
Kimberley Phillips; Hermine Pinson; Hanna Wallinger (eds.) �
Liberation, Identity, and Resistance
The contributions to “Critical Voices of Black Liberation in the
Americas” originated from the 1999 CAAR Conference in Münster
and from conferences held in the US in 2000 and 2001. More than half
of the eleven essays consider black performances on stage, in sound,
and on film; the remaining essays explore slavery, African American
literature, and nineteenth-century black educators. These exciting
essays creatively examine artistic and/or political articulation of black
liberation as the construction of a new critical and signifyin(g) voice.
This liberated and critical voice asserts itself as much as a communal
expression of black subjectivities as it is an articulation of the black
self.
Bd. 11, Frühj. 2003, ca. 208 S., ca. 20,90 €, br., ISBN 3-8258-6739-0
Contributions to Asian American Literary
Studies
edited by Rocío G. Davis (University of Navarre)
and Sämi Ludwig (University of Bern)
Rocío G. Davis; Sämi Ludwig (Eds.) �
Asian American Literature in the International Context
Readings on Fiction, Poetry, and Performance
In their different and yet complementary perspectives, all of the essays
in Asian American Literature in the International Context: Readings
on Fiction, Poetry, and Performance reiterate the universal lesson of
pluralism. They are divided into sections that deal with biraciality
and biculturality, interethnic negotiations, poetic creations, narrative
experiments, and (re)constructing self. The wide variety of approaches
reflects the contributors’ training in different cultures and across
cultures. It showcases refreshing new perspectives in reading that
combine the views of literary scholars from three different continents.
This collection creates a space for discussion and commentary, of
heightened appreciation and increased creativity, a forum that turns
the discipline of Asian American Studies into a truly intercultural
debate.
Bd. 1, 2002, 272 S., 25,90 €, br., ISBN 3-8258-5710-7
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Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Jörg Rademacher
James Joyce’s Other Image
Essays in Joyce Criticism
Bd. 2, 1996, 144 S., 20,90 €, br., ISBN 3-8258-2079-3
Wolfgang Munzinger
Das Automobil als heimliche Romanfigur
Das Bild des Autos und der Technik in der nordamerikanischen
Literatur von der Jahrhundertwende bis nach dem 2. Weltkrieg
Bd. 3, 1997, 224 S., 24,90 €, br, ISBN 3-8258-2741-0
Jost Hindersmann
MLAIB und ABELL
Periodische Fachbibliographien, CD-ROM- und Online-
Datenbanken zur Anglistik
Bd. 4, 1997, 96 S., 10,90 €, br., ISBN 3-8258-3358-5
Holger Boden
TwoWorldWarsandOneWorldCup–Krieg,Sport
und englischer Humor
Bd. 5, 1998, 112 S., 15,90 €, br., ISBN 3-8258-3851-x
Jörg Rademacher (Hrsg./Ed.) �
Modernism and the Individual Talent/Moderne und
besondere Begabung
Re-Canonizing Ford Madox Ford (Hueffer)/Zur Re-
Kanonisierung von Ford Madox Ford (Hüffer). Symposium
Münster June/Juni 1999
Bd. 6, 2002, 224 S., 25,90 €, br., ISBN 3-8258-4311-4
Ulrike Ernst �
From Anti-Apartheid to African Renaissance
Interviews with South African Writers and Critics on Cultural
Politics Beyond the Cultural Struggle
The focus of this collection is the cultural and literary policy of the
tripartite alliance (ANC, SACP, COSATU) after its denouncement of
‘culture as a weapon’. Three shifts are noted between 1990 – 2000:
the end of apartheid, the alliance’s accession to power, and the change
of presidency from Nelson Mandela to Thabo Mbeki, including the
adoption of a neo-liberal macro-economic policy.
The investigation stresses the importance of the role of writers and
intellectuals in political and societal transformation processes that have
a tendency to destroy the agency that initially set them in motion.
Startling revelations are being made, which highlight the emptiness
of much Rainbow Nation sloganeering.
Bd. 7, 2002, 208 S., 20,90 €, br., ISBN 3-8258-5804-9
Andreas Lienkamp; Wolfgang Werth;
Christian Berkemeier (Hg.) �
“As strange as the world”
Annäherungen an das Werk des Erzählers und Filmemachers
Paul Auster
Paul Auster ist nicht nur einer der populärsten, sondern auch der interessantesten
Autoren der amerikanischen Gegenwartsliteratur. Seine Bücher
und Filme sind der gelungene Beweis, dass man auch im Zeitalter
der Postmoderne spannend, unterhaltsam und dabei doch literarisch anspruchsvoll
erzählen kann.
Ohne Scheuklappen verbindet Auster Leichtigkeit und Tiefgang, eingängiges
Fabulieren und erzähltechnische Finesse. Seine Romane und
Kurzgeschichten lassen sich als packende Detektivgeschichten, aber
auch als metaphysische Spekulationen über Zufall, Schein und Identität
lesen.
Keineswegs erschöpfend angelegt, mag dieser Band Anregungen für die
Auseinandersetzung mit dem Werk eines zeitgenössischen Erzählers und
Filmemachers bieten.
Bd. 8, 2002, 170 S., 20,90 €, br., ISBN 3-8258-6046-9
Christa Jansohn (Hg.) �
„Ein Drama nicht von Shakespeare“
Dokumentationsband zur Teilung der deutschen Shakespeare-
Gesellschaft
Bd. 9, Frühj. 2003, ca. 304 S., ca. 30,90 €, gb., ISBN 3-8258-6094-9
Victor Grove �
Hamlet
Das Drama des modernen Menschen
Bd. 10, Frühj. 2003, ca. 248 S., ca. 30,90 €, br., ISBN 3-8258-6224-0
Hans Werner Breunig �
Verstand und Einbildungskraft in der englischen
Romantik
S. T. Coleridge als Kulminationspunkt seiner Zeit
Bd. 11, Frühj. 2003, ca. 352 S., ca. 25,90 €, br., ISBN 3-8258-6244-5
Birgit Lahaye �
Pirating History
Die Darstellung des haitianischen Unabhängigkeitskampfes in
der Erzählliteratur
Bd. 12, Frühj. 2003, ca. 304 S., ca. 29,90 €, br., ISBN 3-8258-6718-8
Radhouan Ben Amara �
The Fragmentation of the Proper Name and The Crisis
of Degree
Deconstructing King Lear
Bd. 13, Frühj. 2003, ca. 160 S., ca. 20,90 €, br., ISBN 3-8258-6736-6
Ana María Manzanas; Jesús Benito �
Intercultural Mediations
Hybridity and Mimesis in American Literatures
Bd. 14, Frühj. 2003, ca. 288 S., ca. 25,90 €, br., ISBN 3-8258-6738-2
Tamara Hahn �
It’s all a Question of Masks
Selbstinszenierung und Modernität bei Noel Coward
Bd. 15, Frühj. 2003, ca. 176 S., ca. 25,90 €, br., ISBN 3-8258-6750-1