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African Cultures and Literatures
Besides searching book reviews, an interview with the writer Tijan M. Sallah, a full report on the 6th Ethiopian International Film Festival, and a stimulating selection of creative writing (including a showcase of recent South African poetry), this issue of Matatu offers general essays on African women’s poetry, anglophone Cameroonian literature, and Zimbabwean fiction of the Gukurahundi period, along with studies of J.M. Coetzee, Kalpana Lalji, Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Aminata Sow Fall, Wole Soyinka, and Yvonne Vera. The bulk of this issue, however, is given over to coverage of cultural and sociological topics from North Africa to the Cape, ranging from cultural identity in contemporary Nort...
Crossroads of Colonial Cultures
The study examines cultural effects of various colonial systems of government in the Spanish- and French-speaking Caribbean in a little investigated period of transition: from the French Revolution to the abolition of slavery in Cuba (1789–1886). The comparison of cultural transfer processes by means of literary production from and about the Caribbean, embedded in a broader context of the circulation of culture and knowledge deciphers the different transculturations of European discourses in the colonies as well as the repercussions of these transculturations on the motherland’s ideas of the colonial other: The loss of a culturally binding centre in the case of the Spanish colonies – i...
Latin American Detectives against Power
This book examines how Latin American detective stories portray individualism and the state through the figures of the private eye and the police. Fabricio Tocco argues that these portrayals constitute a far more radical critique than the one developed by the Anglo-American canon, culminating in a transnational “poetics of failure” rooted in dissatisfaction with the neoliberal state.
Politics of Architecture in Contemporary Argentine Cinema
This book considers how architectural landmarks, imagined buildings and urban landscapes take part in the production of meaning in contemporary Argentine cinema. From the iconic Buenos Aires Obelisk to the Hilton International Hotel, the shopping center to the café and the Le Corbusier-designed Curutchet House to the gated community, architecture in these films evokes the political. Tracing architecture’s expression through six films produced since the 1990s—Pizza birra faso, Mundo grúa, Nueve reinas, La niña santa, La antena and El hombre de al lado—Amanda Holmes studies how architecture in cinema elicits political memory, underscores marginalization and class discrepancies, creates nostalgia for neighborhoods and re-evaluates existing communities. Generously illustrated and carefully researched, the book offers an in-depth reading of key contemporary Argentine films and a fresh architectural approach to film analysis.
Focus on Nigeria
This issue of Matatu offers cutting-edge studies of contemporary Nigerian literature, a selection of short fiction and poetry, and a range of essays on various themes of political, artistic, socio-linguistic, and sociological interest. Contributions on theatre focus on the fool as dramatic character and on the feminist theatre of exclusion (Tracie Uto-Ezeajugh). Several essays examine the poetry of Hope Eghagha and the Delta writer Tanure Ojaide. Studies of the prose fiction of Chinua Achebe, Tayo Olafioye, Uwem Akpan, and Chimamanda Adichie are complemented by a searching exposé of the exploitation of Ayi Kwei Armah on the part of the metropolitan publishing world and by a recent interview...
The Art of Foreign Language Teaching
The first edition of this work became a standard reference work in the general context of humanistic approaches to foreign language teaching and learning. This new edition gives a brief overview of further developments in relevant fields and discusses the importance of the concept of teaching as an art in light of the increasing standardization and digitalization of education. Reviews of the 1st edition I believe that the book will become a standard reference point for all those who, against the current tide of 'scientific', objectives-based, test-oriented, control-obsessed, sterile approaches to language teaching, continue to believe that language teaching is indeed an art, and a joyful art at that. Prof. Dr. Alan Maley in English Language Teaching Journal Peter Lutzker is a major educational thinker and has spent half an earthly span living towards this major book. (...) I have placed Peter's book on my shelves next to those of Rogers, Curran, Dufeu and Stevick. Mario Rinvolucri in Humanising Language Teaching
Zeitschrift für Romanische Sprachen und ihre Didaktik
Aufsätze: GUNTER BURGER (Kempen) Die Verwendung intralingualer Untertitel beim Einsatz audiovisueller Medien: Hindernis oder Hilfe für den Fremdsprachenerwerb? LIDIA DE PAZ MARTINEZ (Mainz) Zur modernen Sprachpflege in Spanien: Lehnwortdiskussion in Stilbüchern der spanischen Presse DOMENICA ELISA CICALA (Klagenfurt) Primo approccio alla letteratura italiana. I parchi letterari: il colle di Recanati. Proposta didattica su L'infinito di Leopardi LAURA CAMPANALE (Trier) Fehleranalyse bei einer Gruppe italienischer Jugendlicher im Ausbildungsprogramm BiPRO JOHANNES KRAMER (Trier) Gibt es leichte und schwere Schulsprachen? Überlegungen zum Englischen, Spanischen, Italienischen und Französischen SYLVIA THIELE (Münster) Literatur im Fremdsprachenunterricht - Vorschläge für die Vorbereitung auf das Praxissemester Rezensionen zu linguistischen und didaktischen Publikationen Zeitschriftenschau: Neues zur Didaktik der Romanischen Sprachen Profil: Prof. Dr. Dagmar Abendroth-Timmer (Siegen) Lehrveranstaltungen: Didaktik der Romanischen Sprachen (WS 09/10)
Religion und Literatur Im 20. und 21. Jahrhundert
English summary: This volume deals with different forms of religion and religiousness in literature of the 20thand 21stcenturies, ranging from denominational literature to free forms of religious speech relating either to individuals and their experiences and self-reflection or to the emergence of new religious groups. The question of the possibilities of literary speech about religious themes is also examined. Last but not least, the volume also looks at different genres that are critically or affirmatively concerned with religion and religiousness, thereby opening up the field to other media forms beyond writing (for instance film, comics, tv series or computer games). German description: ...
Der problematische Prophet
Das alttestamentliche Jona-Buch hat seit dem antiken Christentum vielfältig das Interesse auf sich gezogen und zur Produktion von zahlreichen Kommentaren, Predigten, Dichtungen und bildlichen Darstellungen angeregt. Bis hinein in die Gegenwartsliteratur hat die Jona-Erzählung heterogene Adaptationen provoziert. Ein wichtiger Grund für solch enorme Wirkung liegt in dem Umstand, dass das Jona-Buch als einziges rein narratives Prophetenbuch des alttestamentlichen Kanon aufgrund seiner luziden Knappheit sowie seines ausgeprägten erzählerischen Spannungsbogens zu immer neuer Interpretation und Verarbeitung nachhaltig anstiftete. Der Band dokumentiert die Ergebnisse eines interdisziplinären Gesprächs von Theologen, Literaturwissenschaftlern sowie Kultur- und Kunsthistorikern. Die Beiträge sind bestrebt, quellennah zu erkunden, welche multimedialen Umsetzungen die Jona-Erzählung von der Antike bis ins 20. Jahrhundert erfuhr.
