Crossing Borders: Inner- and Intercultural Exchanges in a Multicultural Society - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3631303106 ISBN 13: 9783631303108

Publisher: Peter Lang GmbH, 1997

Synopsis

This collection of essays by French and German scholars of American Studies addresses issues of real or metaphorical transgressions of boundaries in American literature, culture, and society. It is thus predominantly focussed on texts and topics of racial mixing and cultural hybridization in American and African-American, Puerto Rican, Caribbean, and Canadian literature. Yet some of the essays take the issue further by probing into the ethical implications of boundary crossing in such areas as medicine and advertisement. The book is thus based on the assumption that in a society for which transgression increasingly becomes a matter of cultural identity, the problems of boundary crossing encompass all areas and aspects of its existence.

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About the Author

The Contributors: Heinz Ickstadt, Simone Vauthier, Brigitte Georgi-Findlay, Dieter Meindl, Birgit Meseck, Christa Buschendorf, Michel Fabre, Michael Hoenisch, Wolfgang Binder, Serge Ricard, Andre Briand, Liliane Kerjan, Berndt Ostendorf. The Editor: Heinz Ickstadt is Professor of American literature at the Kennedy-Institut fuer Nordamerikastudien, Freie Universitaet Berlin. He has published widely in late-nineteenth century American literature and culture, modern poetry, postmodern fiction, and urban literature.

Edition details

• Publisher: Peter Lang GmbH
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3631303106
• ISBN 13: 9783631303108
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 175
• Editor: Ickstadt Heinz