Vol 11 (2010)

Vol 11 (2010)

Table of Contents

Editorial

Editorial

Torsten Kathke, Sascha Pöhlmann

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Articles

Encountering the Familiarity of a Foreign Culture: Julie Dash's Novel Daughters of the Dust

Katharina Gerund

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In a Time-Warp: The Issue of Chronology in Siri Hustvedt’s The Blindfold

Christian Knirsch

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“They looked German, albeit with even tighter pants and uglier shoes, but there was something different about them”: The Function of East and West Germany and the Fall of the Berlin Wall in Paul Beatty’s Slumberland

Elisa Schweinfurth

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Hunger and Self-Fashioning in Richard Wright’s Black Boy and Knut Hamsun’s Sult

Daniel Rees

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Writing Jazz History: The Emergence of a New Genre

Mario Dunkel

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“A Lynching in Blackface”: The Representation of History and Fantasies of Black Male Violence in John E. Wideman’s The Lynchers

Carmen Dexl

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Arbitrary Ruptures: The Making of History in Michael Chabon’s The Yiddish Policemen’s Union (2007)

Birte Otten

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“I won’t always ask”: Complicating Agency in Octavia Butler’s Fledgling

Florian Bast

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Ralph Waldo Emerson versus Cormac McCarthy: The Annihilation of Emerson’s Values in McCarthy’s The Road

Nora Kestermann

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Unconventional Allies Reunited: Liberal Hawks and Neoconservatives at the Turn of the Century

Peter Just

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Camping with the Stars: Queer Perfomativity, Pop Intertextuality, and Camp in the Pop Art of Lady Gaga

Katrin Horn

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Inherent Defeatism in Barry Hannah’s “The Agony of T. Bandini” and “Uncle High Lonesome”

Julia Merkel

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The Purloined Chamber: A Lacanian Reading of Richard Powers’s Plowing the Dark

Johanna Heil

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ISSN: 1861-6127