The Germanic Mosaic: Cultural and Linguistic Diversity in Society, Vol. 33 Book

Introduction: Cultural and Linguistic Diversity in Germanic-Speaking Societies by Carol Aisha Blackshire-Belay

Literary Analysis: Motifs and Reflective Designs

Die Lebens-Ansichten des Katers Murr: Romantic Perspectives on "Us" and "Them" by Christopher R. Clason

Work and Freedom in the Minority Community: Ferdinano von Saar's Die Troglodytin by Virginia L. Lewis

"Libuse's Success and Francine's Bitterness": Libuse Monikova's and Her Protagonist in Pavane fur eine verstorbene Infantin by Jozef A. Modzelewski

Recent Romanian-German Poetry: Bossert, Hodjak, Modoi, Britz by Fritz H. Konig

Orchids and Mother Tongues: Telling Turkish-German Stories by Patricia Anne Simpson

"Wir haben ihnen Romanautoren gesandt": Aras Oren's Eine verspatete Abrechnung and Guney Dal's Der enthaarte Affe by Susan Kassouf

Revisionary Revelations: Women and Self-Worth in Two West German Short Stories by Lisa Tyler

A Burning Issue: Isolde's Oath in Its Historical Context by Vickie Ziegler

Linguistic Portrayals: Assessment and Prognosis

Languages and Peoples in Contact: Early Germanic and Early Finnic by Thomas W. Juntune

Linguistic Aspects of the Romanian-Saxon Contact in Transylvania by Adrian Poruciuc

Migration and Bilingualism by Ulrich Steinmuller

Language, Literature, and the Question of Cultural Identity: Problems of the German-Swiss by Romey Sabalius

The Disruption of a Triglossic Situation as a Motivating Factor for Language Death: The Case of Western Yiddish by Kerstin Hoge

A Demographic Perspective on the Shift from Irish to English by Terence Odlin

Gastarberiterdeutsch, "Foreign Workers' German": AnIndustrial Pidgin by Glen G. Gilbert and Pavlos Pavlou

Marginal Linguistic Existence: The Case of an Italian Woman by Carol Aisha Blackshire-Belay

Cultural and Political Perspectives: Contemporary and Historical Realities

Reflections on the "Political" Scholar by Peter O'Brien

Language Policy for a Post-Apartheid South Africa: Models and Questions by Gudrun Oberprieler

Cultural Complementarities in Frischmuth's Turkish Novel by Peter Hertz-Ohmes

Icelandic Literature: A Historical Luxury? by Aitor Yraola

"History Presupposes Memory": The Diverse Discourse on Connectedness by Ingo Roland Stoehr

Narrative Strategies as Cultural Vehicles: On Rafik Schami's Novel Erzahler der Nacht by Iman O. Khalil

The Stories of Rafik Schami as Reflections of His Psychopolitical Program by Donna Kinerney

Discourse, Structures, and Strategies: The Problem of Prejudice and Perception

German Literature by Female Foreigners by Irmgard Ackermann

The Encounter with the Other World: Andre Kaminski's Search for the Jewish Past by Albrecht Classen

Fanny Lewald and Judaism: The Writer, the Woman, the Prussian, the Jew by Hanna B. Lewis

German-Writing Authors in Israel by Margarita Pazi

Alaska-Trip: Exported GDR Anti-Semitism by Victoria Joan Moessner

The Construction of Homosexuality in National Socialist Germany by Robert Vocca

Homosexual Identity (Misin)Formation in Hesse's Demian by Patrick J. Gignac

Suggestions for Further Reading

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