The articles assembled in this volume of essays address various aspects of identiy and alterity in the current debate of postcolonial subjects in a wider anglophone context: language and identity politics in Ireland, Scotland, Australia, and the USA; representations of othemess in literature and film (Australia, Britain, India, and the USA). Die Beiträge dieses Bandes thematisieren verschiedene Aspekte von Identität und Alterität in der aktuellen Debatte postkolonialer Probleme in der anglophonen Welt: Sprach- und Identitätspolitik in Irland, Schottland, Australien und in den USA; Darstellungen des Anderen in Literatur und Film (Australien, Großbritannien, Indien und USA).
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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION
I HILDEGARD L. C. TRISTRAM "As she do be spoke, proper, like, ye know": (Post)koloniale Identität und Sprache in Irland
HEIDI BONIN "British Loyalism or Australian Progressiveness?": Zur Haltung der Australier gegenüber ihrer Sprache
ILSE WISCHER On the Origin and Current Status of African American Vernacular English
II BRIGITTE KRÜCK Culture in Postcolonial Contact Zones: A Literature-in-Education Perspective
WOLFGANG PETSCHAN History and Cultural Tradition: Some Sources of the Construction of Scottish National Identity
ANDREA KINSKY-EHRITT Arundati Roy's The God of Small Things: Identity Construction between Indianness and Britishness
EMILY PURSER Seeing Australia: European Vision and Cultural Difference
BRIGITTA OLUBAS The Nostalgia of Others: The Construction of the White Migrant in some 1990s Australian Multicultural Texts
PETER DREXLER Defining Britishness from the Margins: Peter Weir's Gallipoli and Hugh Hudson's Chariots of Fire
III MONIKA MÜLLER A Post-Colonial Look at the Salem Witchcraft Story: Reassessments and Reassignments of Tituba's Involvement
KATHARINA VESTER "I yam what I am": Identitätsstiftende Texte aus der afro-amerikanischen Küche
RAINER SCHNOOR Multiculturalism and Beyond: Perspectives and New Publications on the Culture Debate in the USA
Contributors Index
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