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The problem of identity
is one of the key issues in the present discourse on multiculturalism. This
volume brings together historians, cultural theorists, literary scholars and
political scientists whose common aim is to address questions of identity and
identity formation in multicultural societies, concentrating on European
historical models and current questions and perspectives. The challenging,
progressive or positive aspects relating to multiculturalism appear in a sharper
focus in this strongly interdisciplinary collection, compared to other volumes
which generally tend to concentrate on the “problematic” or limiting aspects
of this important phenomenon of contemporary European societies.
Aus dem Inhalt:
G. Fischer, Multicultural Identities: European Perspectives
P. M. Lützeler, Moving in Circles: Identity Formation in the Postmodern
Condition
G. Stilz, “Homo alter et idem”. Questioned Identities in Colonial and
Postcolonial Writing
M. Kessler, Rupturing Heredity: Fluxions of Identity, Postmodern Discourse,
and the Meaning of Race
B. Tibi, Between Communitarianism and Euro-Islam. Europe, Multicultural
Identities and the Challenge of Migration
M. Rosengarten, Transmigrating Organs. Identity, Politics and Bio-Medical
Technology
S. Attar, Beyond Family, History, Religion and Language. The Construction of
a Cosmopolitan Identity in a Twelfth Century Arabic Philosophical Novel
J. Docker, “1492”: Dystopia and Utopia
I. Mc Calman, Queen of the Gutter: The Lives and Fictions of Jeanne la
Motte
C. E. Forth, Universalising the Particular: Jewishness and the Body in
the Dreyfus Affair
J. H. Voigt, “On Virgin Soil”: Freiherr Ferdinand von Mueller in
Australia. A European Scientist’s Search for Identity
O. Luthar, The Bud of Europe. Inter- and Multicultural Relationships in
Central Europe
G. Mattenklott, Between Mediterranean and Oceania: Malinowski and
European Ehtnological and Anthropological Travelogues
K. Weissenberger, Transcending the Limitations of Exile. Topoi of
Literary Self-Proclamation
E. Pedersen, Jewish Identities 1900–1945: The Fate of Henry William
Katz
M. Shafi, Friends, Enemies, Countrymen: Representations of Foreigners in
Contemporary German and Austrian Literature
M. Jurgensen, Transformative Identities of Literary Multiculturalism
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