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1 online resource (346 pages). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Cross/cultures ; 129
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Cross/cultures ; 129.
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Contents |
Introduction / Ulrike Lindner [and others] -- From postcolonial to transnational approaches in German studies / Sara Lennox -- Encounters over the border : Shaping of colonial identities in neighbouring British and German colonies in southern Africa / Ulrike Lindner -- Colonial order upside down? : British and Germans in east African prisoner-of-war camps during World War I / Michael Pesek -- Jack, Peter and the beast : postcolonial perspectives on sexual murder and the construction of white masculinity in Britain and Germany at the turn of the twentieth century / Eva Bischoff -- Decolonization of the public space? : (Post)colonial culture of remembrance in Germany / Joachim Zeller -- Setting the record straight? : Imperial history in postcolonial British public culture / Elizabeth Buettner -- (Trans)national consumer cultures : coffee as a colonial product in the German empire / Laura Julia Rischbieter -- Transcultural tea times : an overview of tea in colonial history / Christine Vogt-William -- Döner Kebab and west German consumer (multi- )cultures / Maren Möhring -- A cultural politics of curry : Transnational spaces of contemporary commodity culture / Peter Jackson -- Knowledges of (un)belonging : epistemic change as a defining mode for black women's activism in Germany / Maureen Maisha Eggers -- "I ain't British though/Yes you are. You're as English as I am" : staging belonging and unbelonging in black British drama today / Deirdre Osborne -- Muslims, the discourse on (failed) integration in Britain, and Kenneth Glenaan's film Yasmin / Silke Stroh -- Current spectace of integration in Germany : spatiality, gender, and the boundaries of the national gaze / Markus Schmitz. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Great Britain -- Colonies -- History -- 20th century.
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Great Britain. |
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Colonies. |
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History. |
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20th century |
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Germany -- Colonies -- History -- 20th century.
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Germany. |
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Great Britain -- History.
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Germany -- History.
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| Chronological Term |
1900 - 1999 |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Lindner, Ulrike.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Hybrid Cultures Nervous States. Gardners Books 2011 9789042032286 (OCoLC)701012175 |
| ISBN |
9789042032293 (electronic book) |
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9042032294 (electronic book) |
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9789042032286 |
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9042032286 |
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