ISBN:
9789042032286
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (lxxiii, 346 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Cross/cultures 129
Parallel Title:
Print version Hybrid Cultures - Nervous States : Britain and Germany in a (Post)Colonial World
DDC:
942
Keywords:
Multiculturalism
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Multiculturalism
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Konferenzschrift 2007
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Konferenzschrift 2007
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Konferenzschrift 2007
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History
Abstract:
While cultural diversity and hybridity have often been celebrated, they also challenge traditional concepts of national and cultural identity - challenges which have caused considerable anxiety. Various disciplines have often investigated the impact of cultural hybridity, multiculture, and (post)colonialism in relative isolation and with a tendency towards over-theorization and loss of specificity. Greater interdisciplinary cooperation can counter this tendency and encourage sustained comparisons between different former empires and across language boundaries. This volume contributes to such d
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover ; Title Page ; Copyright Page ; Table of Contents ; Acknowledgements; List of Illustrations; Introduction ; From Postcolonial to Transnational Approaches in German Studies ; SECTION I : (POST)COLONIAL IDENTIFICATIONS, COLONIAL TRADITIONS, AND CULTURES OF MEMORY ; SECTION I I : (TRANS)NATIONAL CONSUMER CULTURES: FROM 'KOLONIALWAREN' TO 'ETHNIC CUIS INE' ; SECTION I I I : MULTICULTURALISM FAILED? CULTURAL DIFFERENCE AND THE DEBATES ON NATIONAL BELONGING ; Works Cited; Notes on Editors and Contributors; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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