Migration and literature

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Berta Raposo, Walther L. Bernecker (Hrsg./eds

"Hauptgegenstand dieses Sammelbandes ist die Darstellung spanischer Städte und Landschaften, Reisewege und Kulturdenkmäler in der deutschen Reiseliteratur vom Mittelalter bis zur Gegenwart. Einige der Beiträge gehen ausserdem auf Werke der fiktionalen Literatur ein, deren Handlung in Spanien spielt. In seiner Gesamtheit bietet der Band historische ebenso wie literatur- und kulturwissenschaftliche Fragestellungen und Methoden. Im Ergebnis verstehen die Analysen sich als Beitrag zur Erforschung inter- und transkultureller Beziehungen zwischen der deutschsprachigen Welt und Spanien." --

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Karin U. Schestokat

"This book analyzes the travelogues of four German women who journeyed through Cameroon when it was a German colony (1884-1918). Three of the women - Haase, Rein-Wuhrmann, and Ziemann - present their experiences as exciting adventures in a world that will profit from European progress and the teachings of Christianity. The fourth, Thorbecke, is eventually able to accept the Africans and their customs on their own terms. These travelogues were used as recruiting tools to entice other German women to come to Cameroon, and they are a reflection of the German society's mindset at the cusp of the twentieth century. As documentation of the identity formation and learning processes of their authors, they give testimony to these women's openness, tolerance, and adaptability to the social and cultural environments of various African tribes in Cameroon."--BOOK JACKET.

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Justin Henderson

Telling the fascinating story of grunge rock's beginnings in basements, bars, and garages across the Seattle area to its explosion as an internationally popular style of music, this guide discusses how and why grunge appeared in Seattle when it did and uncovers the people and places in the city that defined a movement. Including three maps and packed with information about the city, this resource describes the bands that defined the grunge sound --The Melvins, Alice in Chains, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, and Mudhoney-- the clubs where they played, and key locations in Seattle where grunge history was made.

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Marianne Hirsch

Includes information on anger, Margaret Atwood, Emma (Jane Austen), authority, The Awakening (Kate Chopin), Beloved (Toni Morrison), Nancy Chodorow, Clytemnestra and Electra, death, Demeter and Persephone, Daniel Deronda (George Eliot), Marguerite Duras, Everyday Use (Alice Walker), family romance, father, femininity, gender difference, heterosexuality, Luce Irigaray, Julia Kristeva, male, males, masculine, men, marriage plot, maternal, Oedipal theory, Oneʼs Own (Walker), patriarchy, plot, plot (female), pre-oedipal, procreation, Adrienne Rich, romance (love) plot, A Room of Oneʼs Own (Woolf), Sara Ruddick, separation from mother, Sula (Morrison), Susan Rubin Suleiman, Surfacing (Atwood), To the Lighthouse (Woolf), triangular relationships, voice, Edith Wharton, Christa Wolf, Virginia Woolf, etc.