लेखक: Florian Freitag

Hurricane Katrina blasted the Gulf Coast in 2005, leaving an unparalleled trail of physical destruction. In addition to that damage, the storm wrought massive psychological and cultural trauma on Gul …

Provides the first history of the North American farm novel, a genre which includes John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath, Sheila Watson’s The Double Hook, and Louis Hémon’s Maria Chapdelaine. From Jo …

Das Konzept der »transkulturellen Dynamiken« dient in diesem Band dazu, die zunehmende Mobilität und gegenseitige Durchdringung von Kulturen zu fassen. Die Beiträge betrachten Artefakte, soziale Prak …

Ungleichheiten werden häufig inszeniert, um Differenzen zu schaffen, Territorien abzustecken oder Identitäten zu konstruieren. Dabei werden mitunter »fremde« Codes wie Dialekte, Bilder, Textgattungen …

New Orleans is unique – which is precisely why there are many Crescent Cities all over the world: for almost 150 years, writers, artists, cultural brokers, and entrepreneurs have drawn on and simulta …

New Orleans is unique – which is precisely why there are many Crescent Cities all over the world: for almost 150 years, writers, artists, cultural brokers, and entrepreneurs have drawn on and simulta …

Compares the cultural productions of Canada and the US – literature, but also film, opera, and even theme parks – providing a reassessment of Canadian Studies within a comparative framework. Since th …

This book offers a comprehensive, multidisciplinary introduction to theme parks and the field of theme park studies. It identifies and discusses relevant economic, social, and cultural as well as med …