Racism, Slavery, and LiteratureWolfgang Zach, Ulrich Pallua Peter Lang, 2010 - 266 Seiten The papers presented here offer a major challenge to previously conceived ideas about issues like slavery, racism, ethnic relations, nationalism, and cultural identity generating responses, critiques, revisions, counterarguments, and new perspectives. This volume is not only meant to address important matters of the past but also of the present and future as racism, ethnic relations, and cultural identity - with the attendant issues of human rights, freedom, and emancipation - will assume an ever-increasing significance in our globalised but ethically, socially, and culturally divided world. The volume is subdivided into three sections: «Racism and Nationalism» containing papers dealing with issues of racism and nationalism in a broader context, «Slavery: From Past to Present» exploring the concept of slavery in different literary genres and historical periods, «Cultural Identity and Ethnic Relations» dealing with cultural memory, nationalism, and relations between cultural and ethnic groups. |
Inhalt
Wolfgang Zach and Ulrich Pallua University of Innsbruck Austria | 7 |
From Race Ideology | 13 |
Lucy Collins University College Dublin Ireland | 23 |
Yasue Arimitsu Doshisha University of Kyoto Japan | 33 |
Dave Gunning University of Birmingham | 47 |
Thomas Spielbüchler University of Innsbruck Austria | 61 |
Claude Couture University of Alberta Canada | 73 |
Wolfgang Zach Ulrich Pallua Adrian Knapp Cynthia Rauth | 95 |
Mary Niall Mitchell University of New Orleans USA | 159 |
Andreas Oberprantacher University of Innsbruck Austria | 169 |
Andrew MilneSkinner University of Innsbruck Austria | 183 |
Ljiljana Ina Gjurgjan University of Zagreb Croatia | 199 |
Brigitte Glaser University of Göttingen Germany | 209 |
Laurie R Cohen University of Innsbruck Austria | 225 |
Rüdiger Ahrens University of Würzburg Germany | 241 |
Andrea Strolz University of Innsbruck Austria | 257 |
Anthony Barthelemy University of Miami USA | 137 |
Donathan Lawrence Brown Texas AM University USA | 147 |
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