From interculturalism to transculturalism
Subtitle: mediating encounters in cosmopolitan contexts
By: edited by Heinz Antor ... [et al.].
Contributors: Ahrens, Rüdiger, 1939-
Series: Anglistische Forschungen -- Bd. 405
Publisher: Winter
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Heidelberg
Language: eng
Number of pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9783825356514
Subjects: Multiculturalism in literature; History and criticism; Acculturation in literature; Modern Literature
Description: "Recent trends in postcolonial and intercultural studies have led to a marked development towards concepts of transculturalism and cosmopolitanism. The articles collected in this volume discuss how cultural and literary theories are related to these much-debated issues. Experts from Germany, Austria and Italy have collected their theoretical approaches to and case studies of pertinent literary texts in this volume. The invitation to join in the project was occasioned by the 70th birthday of Rüdiger Ahrens, himself a much-travelled scholar in this field, and extended to scholars with whom he has collaborated over many years."--Publisher's description.
Notes: Collection of essays on the occasion of Rüdiger Ahrens' 70th birthday.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Theories, concepts and current issues in inter- and transcultural studies: From postcolonialism and interculturalism to the ethics of tranculturalism in the age of globalization / Heinz Antor. How to conceive of intercultural understanding : considering the tensions between the liberal and the communal concept of the self? / Lothar Bredella. Home and away in the world / Andrew Parkin; title: Case studies: Two cultures? Newton and Darwin : Pope, Thomson, Young, Akenside et al. / Franz Karl Stanzel. "One of us" : meanings and functions of a Leitmotif in Conrad's Lord Jim / Paul Goetsch. Virtual Caledonias : conflicting national landscape(s) in Ken MacLeod's Cydonia and Matthew Fitt's But n Ben a-go-go / Carla Sassi. Transculturality and comedy in Zadie Smith's serio-comic novel White teeth (2000) / Hans Ulrich Seeber. Learning to understand the other : Timothy Mo's novel An insular possession / Erhard Reckwitz. Faustian pursuits in Salem Village : the transcultural dimension of Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown" / Hubert Zapf. The family reunion on Ellis Island as a literary evocation of the pains and promises of acculturation / Peter Freese. Transcultural trajectories, interethnic inequality, and African American theatre : Loften Mitchell's and Alice Childress's intermedial plays / Jochen Achilles. "Identities that cannot exist" : bending gender and culture in David Henry Hwang's drama M. Butterfly / Laurenz Volkmann. Transatlantic memories, ethnic encounters and transculturation in Canadian literature / Waldemar Zacharasiewicz. The bard as witness : contesting the politically correct in Timothy Findley's Elizabeth Rex and David Williamson's Dead white males / Norbert Schaffeld. Antipodean geographies : Australian "translations" / Klaus Stierstorfer.