Vol. 10 (2009)

Published: 2012-03-27

Editorial

Greeting and Opening Address by the President of the German Association for American Studies (GAAS / DGfA)

Peter Schneck
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Greeting by the General Editor of Amerikastudien / American Studies

Udo Hebel
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Reflexivity and (Ex-)Change: New Perspectives from the Postgraduate Forum for German Americanists

Christina Oppel, Anna Rapp, Anna Thiemann
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Articles

Depicting ‘Natural’ Disasters in U.S.-American History and Culture: San Francisco’s City Hall as an Icon of the 1906 Earthquake and Fire

Susanne Leikam
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“Of Vampire Born”: Interracial Mothering in Black Women’s Speculative Fiction

Marie-Luise Löffler
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Ambiguity and the Ethics of Reading Race and Lynching in James W. Johnson’s The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (1912)

Carmen Dexl
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The Impact of Tribal Colleges in the Economic Development of Tribal Communities: A Case Study

Anne Grob
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Dystopia, Alternate History and the Posthuman in Bioshock

Lars Schmeink
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An Event “Like a Movie”? Hollywood and 9/11

Christina Rickli
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“Stuff That Happened to Me”: Visual Memory in Jonathan Safran Foer’s Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2005)

Elisabeth Siegel
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Do the Photos Tell it All? Representing Torture in the Images from Abu Ghraib

Katrin Dauenhauer
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“Ruled By Fiction?” ‘Real’ Deception and Narrative Truth in Frank Rich’s The Greatest Story Ever Sold (2006)

Sebastian M. Herrmann
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