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Exploring Transculturalism - A Biographical Approach
Wolfgang Berg, Aoileann Ní Éigeartaigh
Verlag VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften (GWV), 2010
ISBN 9783531924403 , 180 Seiten
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Table of Contents
6
Editors’ Introduction: Exploring Transculturalism
8
1.1 Culture and Identity
9
1.2 Culture and Identity in a Postmodern World
10
1.3 Exploring Transculturalism
11
1.4 Outline of Chapters
13
Works Cited
17
“It’s my own stuff”: The Negotiations and Multiplicity of Ethnic Identities among Young Women of Middle Eastern Backgrounds in Sweden
19
2.1 Immigrant Identities in Previous Studies
20
2.2 Empirical Research and Analysis
21
2.3 Public Images – the Stereotype of Oppressed Immigrant Girls
22
2.4 The Immigrant Family Crisis
23
2.5 Female Respectability, Sexuality and Ethnic Markers
25
2.5.1 Shame and Honour – in Relation to the Parents
26
2.5.2 Female Sexuality, Reputation and Bodily Symbolism
27
2.5.3 The Veil and Virginity as Evidence of “Purity”
28
2.6 The Multiplicity and Ambivalence of Identity Work
29
2.7 Negotiating Social Identity and Border-Crossing Practices in Everyday Life
31
2.8 The Multiplicity of Ethnic Identification – Doing Belonging
33
2.9 Conclusion
34
Works Cited
35
Eamonn Wall: Transculturalism, Hybridity and the New Irish in America
36
3.1 Writing and Identity in the Postmodern World
38
3.2 Displacement and the Narrativizing Impulse
41
3.3 Reading the Diaspora
46
3.4 Forging a Transcultural Poetic Voice
48
Works Cited
50
Petru Popescu and the Experience of Fragmentation
51
4.1 The Great Shift: from Romanian Identity….
51
4.2.…to American Identity
52
4.3 The Novelization of Identity
56
4.4 Cultural In-Betweenness
57
Works Cited
59
Natsume Soseki: Culture Shock and the Birth of the Modern Japanese Novel
60
5.1 Culture Shock: Soseki in London
61
5.2 Predicting Culture Shock
62
5.2.1 Control Factors
63
5.2.2 Intrapersonal Factors
63
5.2.3 Organismic-Biological Factors
66
5.2.4 Interpersonal Factors
66
5.3 Identity and Social Roles
68
5.4 The Process of Culture Shock
69
5.5 Working at the Brink of Two Cultures
73
Works Cited
76
Becoming “Un-Dominican-York”: Julia Alvarez,Transculturalism and How the García Girls LostTheir Accents
78
6.1 A Transcultural Self: Between Fact and Fiction
79
6.2 Trauma, Transformation
81
6.3 Return to the Roots
82
6.4 Identity, Identification
84
6.5 Hyphenated Self-Articulation
89
6.6 Transcultural Living as a Personal Option
91
Works Cited
92
How Not to Make a Mexican Musical: Luis Buñuel and the Perils of Mexicanidad
94
7.1 Mexicanidad and Golden Age Cinema
95
7.2 Buñuel’s Early Career in Mexico
98
7.3 Los olvidados (1950)
104
Works Cited
108
Homesick while at Home: Hugo Hamilton and The SpeckledPeople
110
8.1 The Speckled People
111
8.2 Homesick while at Home
114
8.3 Nationalist Narratives of Identity
116
8.4 German Identity in Postwar Europe
118
8.5 Writing the Self
121
8.6 Die redselige Insel: Irisches Tagebuch
123
Works Cited
125
Confronting the “Foreigner from Within”: (Sexual) Exile and “Indomitable Force” in the Fiction of James Baldwin and Colm Tóibín
127
9.1 (De)Categorizing James Baldwin
130
9.2 Voluntary Exile: Tóibín’s The Story of the Night
133
9.3 “Deliberate Untimeliness”: Baldwin’s Giovanni’s Room
135
9.4 Unhomely Spaces
137
Works Cited
140
Transcultural Biographies: A Cultural Perspective
142
10.1 Examining Transcultural Mobility
143
10.2 George Frideric Händel (1685-1759) – Wolfgang Berg
145
10.3 Angelika Kauffmann (1741-1807) – Wolfgang Berg
148
10.4 G.F.W. Struve (1793-1864) – Wolfgang Berg
149
10.5 Transcultural Movement in the 17-19th Centuries: Conclusion
151
10.6 Josephine Baker: Dancer, Singer, Actor – Franziska Scholze
151
10.6.1 Origin/Roots
155
10.6.2 Mobility/Transnationality
155
10.6.3 Artistic Transculturality
155
10.6.4 Language/Interaction/Integration
156
10.6.5 Social Transculturality
156
10.6.6 Home
157
10.7 Mascha Kaléko (1907-1975) – Janina Lehr
157
10.7.1 Kaléko’s Transcultural Literary Influences
159
10.7.2 The Transcultural Reception of Kaléko’s Work
160
10.8 Leonel Roberto C. Fuentes (1950--) – Christin Buchheim
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10.8.1 Biography
162
10.8.2 Background to his stay in the GDR
162
10.8.3 The Transcultural Activities of Leonel Roberto C. Fuentes
163
Works Cited
166
Contributors
167
Index
170
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