Multiculturalism in transit : a German-American exchange / edited by Klaus J. Milich and Jeffrey M. Peck.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Milich, Klaus J., editor.

Peck, Jeffrey M., 1950- editor.

Series:

International political currents ; Volume 3.

International Political Currents ; Volume 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cultural pluralism--United States.

Cultural pluralism.

Cultural pluralism--Germany.

United States--Relations--Germany.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (304 pages).

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [1998]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Foreword

Introduction

Part I THEORIZING COMPARISONS

1. The Uses of Comparison

2. Race, Color … and Creed

3. The Politics of Difference: Theories and Practice in a Comparative U.S.-German Perspective

Part II GENDER AND RACE— TWO CATEGORIES OF MULTICULTURALISM

4. Gender in a Transatlantic Perspective

5. Feminisms in Transit: American Feminist Germanists Construct a Multicultural Germany

6. The Germanification of Black Women’s Literature

Part III AMERICAN STUDIES IN GERMANY—GERMAN STUDIES IN AMERICA

7. Multiculturality in the German Democratic Republic and the Reception of African-American Literature

8. American Studies East and West: A Multicultural Project?

9. Transnational American Studies: Negotiating Cultures of Difference—Multicultural Identities, Communities, and Border Discourses

10. Multiculturalism and the European Connection: Theme Park or Dual Citizenship?

11. Inventing the Nation: Literary Study As a Discipline of Identity

Part IV MULTICULTURALISM IN THE TRANSATLANTIC SPHERE

12. Geographies of Memory: Protocols of Writing in the Borderlands

13. The Transatlantic Ties of Cultural Pluralism— Germany and the United States: Horace M. Kallen and Daniel Cohn-Bendit

14. Wong Kim Ark and the Determination of United States Citizenship

15. The Discourse of Differentiation: German Political Membership

16. Multiculturalism, Nationalism, and the Political Consensus in the United States and in Germany

List of Contributors

References

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781789206012

1789206014

9781571811639

157181163X

OCLC:

1226761233