Multiculturalism in Transit

<p> Multiculturalism is one of the most controversial topics in both the United States and Germany.This interdisciplinary collection of essays by German scholars in American Studies and American scholars in German Studies analyze the other from this dual perspective and from their respective disciplines such as literary and cultural studies political science anthropologyand history. More particularly they examine multiculturalism in terms of national and ethnic identities as well as gender and race and look at the disciplines and institutions that produce and legitimize discourses on subjects such as minority literatures feminism and the notion of foreignness itself. What becomes clear is the fact that careful attention must be paid to the particular conditions and different ideological concepts that shape this term i.e. the national historical political social and institutional contexts in which it appears circulates and accrues meanings.</p><p> <b>Contributors</b>: G. Welz T. Brennan B. Ostendorf R. Hof S. Lennox A. Koenen F. Hajek C.Gersdorf G. H. Lenz F. Trommler H. C. Seeba A. Seyhan A. Hornung B. Thomas G. O. Kvistad H.-J. Puhle</p>