Kategorie: Neuerscheinungen

Das neue Mitteilungsheft der GKS ist erschienen! Das Mitteilungsheft wird im Auftrag des GKS-Vorstands einmal jährlich von Yvonne Völkl herausgegeben und enthält neben Mitteilungen aus dem Vorstand und Beirat eine Auflistung von kanadistischen Fachveranstaltungen und Publikationen von Mitgliedern der Gesellschaft aus dem vergangenen Jahr. Zur Feier der 40. Jahrestagung der GKS enthält das Mitteilungsheft 2019 auch einen Eintrag zu 40 Jahre Förderpreise. Es lohnt sich also reinzuschauen!

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Edited by Eva Gruber and Caroline Rosenthal

Since the elections of Donald Trump and Justin Trudeau, unprecedented international attention is being drawn to the differences between the United States and Canada. This timely volume takes a close comparative look at the national imaginaries of the two countries. In its analyses of the two countries‘ cultural productions – literature, but also film, opera, and even theme parks – it follows the approach of Comparative North American Studies, which has been significantly advanced by Reingard M. Nischik’s work over recent decades. Featuring such illustrious contributors as Linda Hutcheon, Sherrill Grace, and Aritha van Herk, the volume considers the works of writers such as Margaret Atwood, whose concern with both countries‘ identities is well known, but also offers surprising new insights, for example by comparing writing by Edgar Allan Poe with Canadian Yann Martel’s novel Life of Pi and Nobel Prize-winning author Alice Munro’s work with that of the American graphic novelist Alison Bechdel.
Contributors: Margaret Atwood, Shuli Barzilai, Julia Breitbach, Jutta Ernst, Florian Freitag, Marlene Goldman, Sherrill Grace, Michael and Linda Hutcheon, Bettina Mack, Silvia Mergenthal, Claire Omhovère, Katja Sarkowsky, Aritha van Herk.

Sammelband herausgegeben von Sophie Dubois, Julia Montemayor Gracia, Vera Neusius

La connaissance d’une culture étrangère repose sur des personnes et des objets qui jouent un rôle de médiateur culturel entre la culture source et la culture cible. Conformément à leur orientation didactique spécifique, les manuels de langue, de culture et d’histoire remplissent cette fonction médiatrice : ils constituent, dans leur quête de rencontre avec l’Autre, un lieu de contact entre les cultures.
Partant de ce postulat, cet ouvrage concernant Les manuels de langue et de littérature étrangère comme médiateurs culturels: Québec-Canada-Europe / Lehrwerke für Sprache und Literatur als kulturelle Mittler im Fremdsprachenunterricht: Quebec-Kanada-Europa se consacre à l’étude des processus de transfert culturel et à leurs représentations dans un choix de manuels scolaires publiés au Canada et en Europe. Il s’agit, entre autres, de présenter et d’examiner les relations interculturelles mises en scène dans les manuels dans le but à la fois de révéler la qualité d’outils d’acquisition de connaissances et de compétences interculturelles de ce type de publications et d’interroger l’influence d’une telle fonction sur leur didactisation.
Un intérêt particulier est porté au contexte canadien et se penche sur la culture canadienne dans ses relations avec les autres cultures, tant dans les manuels interculturels que dans le contexte d’enseignement-apprentissage.

by Nele Sawallisch

Fugitive Borders explores a new archive of 19th-century autobiographical writing by black authors in North America. For that purpose, Nele Sawallisch examines four different texts written by formerly enslaved men in the 1850s that emerged in or around the historical region of Canada West (now known as Ontario) and that defy the genre conventions of the classic slave narrative. Instead, these texts demonstrate originality in expressing complex, often ambivalent attitudes towards the so-called Canadian Promised Land and contribute to a form of textual community-building across national borders. In the context of emerging national discourses before Canada’s Confederation in 1867, they offer alternatives to the hegemonic narrative of the white settler nation.

edited by Susan Hodgett and Patrick James, contributions by Ibrahim A. I. Alfraih; Abdelkarim Amengay; Charles R. Batson; Colin Coates; Claude Denis; Peter Gatrell; Nicolas Albertoni Gomez; Claus Bech Hansen; Susan Hodgett; Stephen Hutchings; Patrick James; Caroline Rosenthal; Christopher Sabatini; Mandy Sadan and Zahia Smail Salhi

Recent, unpredictable incidents in diverse locations – Paris, Nice, Ankara, Sinai, California, Manchester and London – reinforce how governments and scholars must look beneath the surface for understanding of the turbulent post-9/11world. In particular, what does ‘expertise’ mean in this new era? This book answers that question? The volume is about a particular kind of expert – a type suffering from ‘bad press’ for a long time – namely, scholars who carry out area-based research. The term ‘expert’ itself even comes in for some humor about how it might be defined – someone who knows more and more, about less and less, until eventually they know everything about nothing. Behind the old joke is a grain of truth: Expert standing becomes unimpressive to us, in both intellectual and practical terms, when it is seen as parochial and lacking in vision.
This volume will explore Area Studies (AS), a prominent type of expertise, along a range of dimensions. As we move towards the third decade in the new millennium, attention shifts to the somewhat unexpectedly positive future of NewArea Studies (NAS) as a resurgent intellectual movement. NAS has departed from what the editors have dubbed Traditional Area Studies (TAS) – commonplace till the millennium. Both the editors of this volume, and its contributors, are leading scholars in area-based work across continents. Together they have participated and observed as area-oriented research struggled to overcome protracted and intense criticism since the Cold War. Thus, the volume marks the resurgence of area-based research in its new guise as NAS – the crux – understanding increasing complexity around a shrinking globe.
Taken together, the contents of this volume make the the case for a New Area Studies grounded in necessary travel, using new and wider methodologies involving reflective practice and production of knowledge with local people. It argues the necessity of such broad and deep approaches in order to appreciate what is going on in the world in the 21^st century and to help us see off the arrival of more and increasingly nasty unpredictable shocks.