Contents - COPAS Vol. 11 (2010)

Torsten Kathke and Sascha Pöhlmann Editorial

Abstracts and Contributor Information Articles
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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