Contents - COPAS Vol. 11 (2010)

Contents - COPAS Vol. 11 (2010)

Abstracts and Contributor Information	Articles
Torsten Kathke and Sascha Pöhlmann	Editorial

Katharina Gerund	Encountering the Familiarity of a Foreign Culture: Julie Dash’s Novel Daughters of the Dust
Christian Knirsch	In a Time-Warp: The Issue of Chronology in Siri Hustvedt’s The Blindfold
Elisa Schweinfurth	“They looked German, albeit with even tighter pants and uglier shoes, but there was something different about them”: The Function of East and West Germany and the Fall of the Berlin Wall in Paul Beatty’s Slumberland
Daniel Rees	Hunger and Self-Fashioning in Richard Wright’s Black Boy and Knut Hamsun’s Sult
Mario Dunkel	Writing Jazz History: The Emergence of a New Genre
Carmen Dexl	“A Lynching in Blackface”: The Representation of History and Fantasies of Black Male Violence in John E. Wideman’s The Lynchers
Birte Otten	Arbitrary Ruptures: The Making of History in Michael Chabon’s The Yiddish Policemen’s Union (2007)
Florian Bast	“I won’t always ask”: Complicating Agency in Octavia Butler’s Fledgling
Nora Kestermann	Ralph Waldo Emerson versus Cormac McCarthy: The Annihilation of Emerson’s Values in The Road
Peter Just	Unconventional Allies Reunited: Liberal Hawks and Neoconservatives at the Turn of the Century
Katrin Horn	Camping with the Stars: Queer Perfomativity, Pop Intertextuality, and Camp in the Pop Art of Lady Gaga
Julia Merkel	Inherent Defeatism in Barry Hannah’s “The Agony of T. Bandini” and “Uncle High Lonesome”
Johanna Heil	The Purloined Chamber: A Lacanian Reading of Richard Powers’s Plowing the Dark

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