Transcultural English studies theories, fictions, realities (Rodopi, 2009)
Includes bibliographical references
On the acquisition and possession of commonalities / Wolfgang Welsch -- Multiple modernities : the transnationalization of cultures / Gisela Welz -- Authenticity : why we still need it although it doesn't exist / Virginia Richter -- Shifting perspectives : the transcultural novel / Sissy Helff -- The dangers of diaspora : some thoughts about the Black Atlantic / Ruth Mayer -- The times of India : transcultural temporalities in theory and fiction / Dirk Wiemann -- Lakshman's journal : an essay in narratology and the barbs of transculturality / Peter Stummer -- Broken borders : migration, modernity and English writing : transcultural transformation in the heart of Europe / Mike Phillips -- From the belly of the fish : Jewish writers in English in Israel : transcultural perspectives / Axel Stähler -- Linguistic dimensions of Jewish-American literature / Pascal Fischer -- Eluding containment : orality and the ordnance survey memoir in Ireland / Edith Shillue --
- Atanarjuat : fast running and electronic storytelling in the Arctic / Kerstin Knopf -- Manifestation of self and/or tribal identity? : Maori writing in the global maelstrom / Michaela Moura-Koçoğlu -- Transcultural perspectives in Caribbean poetry / Sabrina Brancato -- The location of transculture / Mark Stein -- 'Final passages'? : representations of Black British history in Caryl Phillips's novel and its television adaptation / Eva Ulrike Pirker -- Trying to escape, longing to belong : roots, genes and performativity in Zadie Smith's White teeth and Hari Kunzru's The impressionist / Barbara Schaff -- Fictions of transcultural memory : Zulfikar Ghose's The triple mirror of the self as an imaginative reconstruction of the self in multiple worlds / Nadia Butt -- Routes to the roots : transcultural ramifications in Bombay talkie / Christine Vogt-William --
- Beyond the contact zone? : mapping transcultural spaces in Tomson Highway's Kiss of the fur queen and Eden Robinson's Monkey beach / Katja Sarkowsky -- The long shadow of Tacitus : classical and modern colonial discourses in the eighteenth- and early-nineteenty-century Scottish highlands / Silke Stroh -- Inter- and/or transcultural learning in the foreign language classroom? : theoretical foundations and practical implications / Sabine Doff -- Towards a cosmopolitan readership : new literatures in English in the classroom / Michael C. Prusse -- Teaching Hanif Kureishi / Laurenz Volkmann -- A new dialogue at the periphery? : teaching postcolonial African, Black American, and Indian writings in India / Kanaka Bashyam Sankaran -- Look, see, and say : photographs of Africa in a cultural perspective. I : transcultural communication, poetics, and viewer response in photography / Detlev Gohrbandt ; II : teaching and learning with photographs of Africa / Gisela Feurle