Vol. 15 No. 1 (2014)

Published: 2014-06-10

Editorial

Guest Editors' Editorial 15.1 (2014)

Cedric Essi, Stephen Koetzing, Monika Sauter
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Articles

Dropouts on the Frontier: T.C. Boyle’s Drop City

Verena Adamik
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Remembering through Retro TV and Cinema: Mad Men as Televisual Memorial to 60s America

Debarchana Baruah
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Collective Action and Public Self-Representation of Undocumented Youth Surrounding the United States DREAM Act Controversy

Ina Batzke
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Of “Half-Rembered Dream[s]” and “Unanswered Myster[ies]”—The Trope of Trauma in Inception and Alan Wake

Stefan Brasse
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"A Good Story": On Black Abjection in Improv Comedy

Michel Büch
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Gothic Remembering in Stephen King's "It Grows On You"

Thorsten Burkhardt
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Political Appropriations and the Construction of the Jefferson Icon in the United States Congress, 1934-1943

Caroline Heller
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The Black Male as Ancestor in John Edgar Wideman’s The Homewood Trilogy

Mahmoud Refaat Mahmoud
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Multiplying Perspectives through Text and Time: Jamaica Kincaid's Writing of the Collective

Antonia Purk
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Previously on the Quality Debate: Serialization and the Continued Practice of Cultural Hierarchization

Janina Rojek
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“You ought to stop trying because you had too many birthdays?” – Heroic Male Aging in the Rocky Films

Nina Schnieder
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Between Meritocracy and the Old Boy Network: Elite Education in Contemporary American Literature

Sophie Spieler
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“John Birch Blues”: The Problematization of Conspiracy Theory in the Early Cold-War Era

Katharina Thalmann
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