Irish Studies

The popularity of Irish Studies among both students and scholars has grown very markedly since the 1980s, extending well beyond Ireland. This series is designed to serve and foster that interest. The scholarly range of the series is multidisciplinary, including research in Irish history, literature, politics and cultural studies, and we welcome suggestions for publication whether specific or broadly-based. The popularity of Irish Studies among both students and scholars has grown very markedly since the 1980s, extending well beyond Ireland. This series is designed to serve and foster that interest. The scholarly range of the series is multidisciplinary, including research in Irish history, literature, politics and cultural studies, and we welcome suggestions for publication whether specific or broadly-based. The popularity of Irish Studies among both students and scholars has grown very markedly since the 1980s, extending well beyond Ireland. This series is designed to serve and foster that interest. The scholarly range of the series is multidisciplinary, including research in Irish history, literature, politics and cultural studies, and we welcome suggestions for publication whether specific or broadly-based.

9 publications

Sprache – System und Tätigkeit

Die Buchreihe präsentiert Forschungsergebnisse vorrangig zur deutschen Gegenwartssprache und zu aktuellen Prozessen der sprachlichen Kommunikation sowie zu deren Vermittlung. In Monographien und Sammelbänden werden sowohl theorie- als auch anwendungsorientiert Aspekte aller Teildisziplinen der Linguistik inklusive der Sprachdidaktik und des Deutschen als Zweit- und Fremdsprache behandelt.

72 publications

Studies in Franco-Irish Relations

The aim of this series is to foreground areas of interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary connection between France and Ireland, as well as stressing the European dimension of the Franco-Irish nexus. The series also provides a forum for French-language scholarship within the field of Irish studies. We welcome proposals from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds, including historical, cultural, literary, sociological, political and linguistic perspectives. The series publishes books in both English and French and all submissions will be peer-reviewed. L’objectif de cette collection est de valoriser les recherches multi-disciplinaires ou inter-disciplinaires relatives à la France et à l’Irlande, et de souligner la dimension européenne des relations franco-irlandaises. La collection offre également un espace d’échanges pour la recherche francophone en études irlandaises. Nous accueillons des projets de publication relevant de différents champs disciplinaires et s’inscrivant dans une perspective historique, culturelle, littéraire, sociologique, politique ou linguistique. Les ouvrages de la collection sont publiés en anglais et en français ; tous les projets sont soumis à une double révision par les pairs.

33 publications

Organismus und System

ISSN: 1438-6909

Band 8 schließt diese Reihe ab.

8 publications

Allokation im marktwirtschaftlichen System

Die Publikationsreihe Allokation im marktwirtschaftlichen System veröffentlicht Studien im Rahmen der Volkswirtschaftslehre und ist das Publikationsorgan für die jährlich stattfindenden Bad Orber Gespräche über kontroverse Themen im Gesundheitswesen. Die Monographien und Sammelbände der Reihe beschäftigen sich mit Gesundheitsökonomie, Finanzwissenschaft und Makroökonomie. Themen sind dabei unter anderem Finanzierung und Aufbau des Gesundheitswesens, die Kranken- und Pflegeversicherung sowie Ressourcen- und Risikoallokation.

77 publications

Komplexe Systeme und Ökonomie

Entwicklungen in der Wirtschaft sind häufig durch Diskontinuitäten, Sprünge und Turbulenzen gekennzeichnet. Wirtschaft und auf Wirtschaft bezogene Teilbereiche können somit als nicht-lineare, dynamische bzw. komplexe Systeme aufgefasst werden. Um diese nicht-linearen Erscheinungen zu modellieren und zu erklären, muss nach neuen Verfahren auf dem Gebiet komplexer dynamischer Systeme geforscht werden. Ein viel versprechender Ansatz ist die Theorie Komplexer Systeme, die im Wesentlichen die Chaos- und Katastrophentheorie, aber auch die Synergetik umfasst. Die Reihe will neue Forschungsfelder im Rahmen der Wirtschaftswissenschaft und ihrer Didaktik darlegen. Sie will die Möglichkeiten der Theorie Komplexer Systeme an Beispielen diskutieren, kritisch analysieren und weiterentwickeln. Dabei können sowohl die inhaltliche, die methodische sowie die mediale Perspektive als auch die Zielebene („ökonomische Bildung“) kritisch und konstruktiv thematisiert werden. Homepage des Herausgebers: Prof. Dr. Andreas Liening

3 publications

Advances in Computational and Systems Biology

1 publications

Systems Thinking for Safety

ISSN: 2571-6913

Advisory board: Professor Erik Hollnagel, University of Southern Denmark; Professor Ragnar Löfstedt, King’s Centre for Risk Management, King’s College London, UK; Professor Alan Irwin, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark; Captain Rogers E. Smith, NASA Dryden Flight Research, USA; Professor Washington Yotto Ochieng, Imperial College, London, UK; Professor Dominic Elliott, University of Liverpool Management School, UK; Captain Tim Berry, Jet2; Dr Robert Hunter, British Air Line Pilots Association (BALPA), UK; Dr Anne Eyre, Trauma Training Ltd, UK; Dr David Fletcher, University of Leicester, UK; Associate Professor David Ison, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, USA; Dr Terry Shevells, University of Leicester, UK; Associate Professor Tony Masys, University of South Florida, USA; Dr Simon Bennett, University of Leicester, UK. Series description: This series draws on the success of the systems-thinking approach to safety management in commercial and military aviation, with a view to improving safety performance in other complex socio-technical systems, such as health-care, nuclear power generation, chemicals production, oil and gas extraction, deep mining and sea and rail transportation. Following the 1977 Tenerife air disaster (that killed 583 people), a traumatised and vilified aviation industry resolved to improve its safety performance. The adoption of a systems-thinking approach to risk analysis and mitigation, expressed in innovations such as the teamworking protocol crew resource management, has benefited the industry. According to the International Air Transportation Association, in 2024 the global all-accident rate was 1.13 per million flights, equating to one accident for every 880,000 flights. You are much safer in a pressurised aluminium tube cruising at eighty per cent the speed of sound six miles above terra firma than you are driving up Britain’s M1 motorway on a sunny day in a modern automobile, fully alert and not under the influence. The series is aimed at practitioners as well as academics and students. To this end, it is written in an accessible style with jargon explained. This reflects its purpose: to leverage change.

3 publications

Consciousness and Human Systems

The interdisciplinary series "Consciousness and Human Systems" presents conference proceedings on philosophy, education, and medicine. Scholars present current studies on human thought, natural laws and psycho-semantics as well as Shamanism, traditional healing and meditation. The series is published by professors of psychology, philosophy, and medical anthropology. The interdisciplinary series "Consciousness and Human Systems" presents conference proceedings on philosophy, education, and medicine. Scholars present current studies on human thought, natural laws and psycho-semantics as well as Shamanism, traditional healing and meditation. The series is published by professors of psychology, philosophy, and medical anthropology. The interdisciplinary series "Consciousness and Human Systems" presents conference proceedings on philosophy, education, and medicine. Scholars present current studies on human thought, natural laws and psycho-semantics as well as Shamanism, traditional healing and meditation. The series is published by professors of psychology, philosophy, and medical anthropology.

3 publications

Analysen zum Wandel politisch-ökonomischer Systeme

ISSN: 0941-4762

13 publications

Changing Democracy and Systems of Differences and Adjustments

"The series is intended as a collection of original and critical political-philosophicalworks as well as interdisciplinary studies on contemporary trends within democracy, its counter-actors, and transparent–global market players. Authors representing various backgrounds and standpoints are encouraged in order to engage in the political philosophy; theoretical and mathematical analyses on politics; cyber society; environments; economics; civil, constitutional, and international law (e.g. legal transplants); human rights; social psychology; and sociology. The series used to collect the best global achievements and standards. Accordingly, the series has been provided in Spanish, Japanese, [Modern] Greek, German, French, and English but all double-peer-reviewed and accepted manuscripts should contain an English translation of its detailed contents and a résumé written in English. The world of the social has been rich enough to suggest no leading theoretical standpoint and no approaches of investigations are expected as imposed to the subject but normative studies on changing democracy and systems of differences and adjustments are not preferred because every non-changeable thing/idea disappears." "The series is intended as a collection of original and critical political-philosophicalworks as well as interdisciplinary studies on contemporary trends within democracy, its counter-actors, and transparent–global market players. Authors representing various backgrounds and standpoints are encouraged in order to engage in the political philosophy; theoretical and mathematical analyses on politics; cyber society; environments; economics; civil, constitutional, and international law (e.g. legal transplants); human rights; social psychology; and sociology. The series used to collect the best global achievements and standards. Accordingly, the series has been provided in Spanish, Japanese, [Modern] Greek, German, French, and English but all double-peer-reviewed and accepted manuscripts should contain an English translation of its detailed contents and a résumé written in English. The world of the social has been rich enough to suggest no leading theoretical standpoint and no approaches of investigations are expected as imposed to the subject but normative studies on changing democracy and systems of differences and adjustments are not preferred because every non-changeable thing/idea disappears."

1 publications

Confronting Systemic Omissions and Impacts in Educational Policy

8 publications

Britische und Irische Studien zur deutschen Sprache und Literatur / British and Irish Studies in German Language and Literature

British and Irish Studies in German Language and Literature Edited by H. S. Reiss and W. E. Yates This long-established series aims to publish works of serious scholarship drawn from the whole subject range of traditional Germanistik, originating both in Great Britain and in the Republic of Ireland, and readably written. Over fifty volumes have b een published since 1974. They include new books both by distinguished senior scholars and by younger researchers, collected essays either by single authors or by several hands (these have included papers emerging from conferences, often in both Eng lish and German) and selected doctoral dissertations reworked in book form. The weight of the series has mainly fallen on literature, theatre and cultural history from the eighteenth century onwards, in some cases with a strong comparative dimension.

47 publications

Positionen der Deutschdidaktik

ISSN: 2364-1312

Die Reihe Positionen der Deutschdidaktik dient der Profilierung und Reflexion der Deutschdidaktik als wissenschaftlicher Disziplin. Sie bietet ein Forum für Positionen im deutschdidaktischen Arbeits- und Handlungsfeld und eröffnet Raum für deren Debatte aus theoretischer und empirischer Perspektive. Theoriegewinnung und Praxisausbildung stehen ebenso im Fokus wie das Zusammenspiel der Deutschdidaktik mit ihren Fach- und Bezugswissenschaften. Im Mittelpunkt steht das disziplinäre Selbstverständnis der Deutschdidaktik: Wie bestimmt sie ihre Rolle zwischen Fachwissenschaft und Erziehungswissenschaft, zwischen Theorie und Empirie, zwischen Anfragen an die Praxisrelevanz und wissenschaftlichem Anspruch? Manuskriptvorschläge an die Herausgeber sind möglich.

28 publications

IRIS

ISSN: 0939-6241

In der Reihe «IRIS – Forschungen zur europäischen Kultur / Ricerche di cultura europea» werden Publikationen vorgelegt, die sich von einem komparatistischen bzw. rezeptionsgeschichtlichen Ansatz her mit historischen und aktuellen Fragen der europäischen Kultur auseinandersetzen. Außerdem werden Forschungen veröffentlicht, die im Rahmen und mit der spezifischen Methodologie ihres jeweiligen Fachgebietes die übernationale Dimension der europäischen Kulturtradition, Geschichte und Realität in ihre Untersuchungen miteinbezogen haben. Die Bücher der Reihe erscheinen in einer der europäischen Hauptsprachen.

29 publications

Scripta Semiotica

1 publications

Reimagining Ireland

ISSN: 1662-9094

The concepts of Ireland and ‘Irishness’ are in constant flux in the wake of an ever-increasing reappraisal of the notion of cultural and national specificity in a world assailed from all angles by the forces of globalisation and uniformity. Reimagining Ireland interrogates Ireland'’s past and present and suggests possibilities for the future by looking at Ireland’'s literature, culture and history and subjecting them to the most up-to-date critical appraisals associated with sociology, literary theory, historiography, political science and theology. Some of the pertinent issues include, but are not confined to, Irish writing in English and Irish, Nationalism, Unionism, the Northern ‘Troubles’, the Peace Process, economic development in Ireland, the impact and decline of the Celtic Tiger, Irish spirituality, the rise and fall of organised religion, the visual arts, popular cultures, sport, Irish music and dance, emigration and the Irish diaspora, immigration and multiculturalism, marginalisation, globalisation, modernity/postmodernity and postcolonialism. The series publishes monographs, comparative studies, interdisciplinary projects, conference proceedings and edited books. “A major intervention in Irish Studies. Irish Studies have come back to Ireland itself. The ‘Reimagining Ireland’ series is at the cutting edge of what it means to be Ireland.” (Prof. Luke Gibbons)

194 publications

Bios-Mythois

5 publications

Finance, FinTech, and Crowdfunding in Islam

ISSN: 2572-7435

Our second collaboration with the BIT-AMENA (University of California, Berkeley iTechpreneurship in Asia, Middle East, and North Africa) Center for Building Innovation Economies, this series focuses on how a financial system is comprised of different subsystems—such as the banking system, financial markets, capital markets, insurance, and derivatives—which are underpinned by legal and commercial infrastructure. When compared to the conventional system, the Islamic financial system has two distinct features: first, the prohibition of riba (interest), which eliminates the possibility of debt and of leveraging within the financial system, and second, the promotion of risk-sharing, facilitated through modes of transaction designed for investors to share the risks and rewards of investment on a more equitable basis. As such, the Islamic financial system is based on a banking system that operates without a debt economy, and instead promotes the financing of the real economy. Researchers have argued that an active and vibrant market of securitized assets, which has some resemblance to the conventional asset-based debt market, replaces the debt market and behaves and operates differently. We will subsequently examine the vital role that the stock market plays within a risk-sharing economy.

1 publications

Leipziger Arbeiten zur Sprach- und Kommunikationsgeschichte

ISSN: 0940-421X

Die "Leipziger Arbeiten zur Sprach- und Kommunikationsgeschichte" werden vom Leipziger Institut für Germanistik herausgegeben. Seit 1996 erscheinen in dieser Reihe Monographien und Sammelbände zu Themen der Germanistik. Unter anderen widmen sich die Studien dem Einsatz von Sprache und dem Sprachgebrauch im politischen System und in politisch motivierten Kommunikationssituationen, der Geschichte der Texttypologien und der Sprachdynamik im historischen Kontext. Die "Leipziger Arbeiten zur Sprach- und Kommunikationsgeschichte" werden vom Leipziger Institut für Germanistik herausgegeben. Seit 1996 erscheinen in dieser Reihe Monographien und Sammelbände zu Themen der Germanistik. Unter anderen widmen sich die Studien dem Einsatz von Sprache und dem Sprachgebrauch im politischen System und in politisch motivierten Kommunikationssituationen, der Geschichte der Texttypologien und der Sprachdynamik im historischen Kontext. Die "Leipziger Arbeiten zur Sprach- und Kommunikationsgeschichte" werden vom Leipziger Institut für Germanistik herausgegeben. Seit 1996 erscheinen in dieser Reihe Monographien und Sammelbände zu Themen der Germanistik. Unter anderen widmen sich die Studien dem Einsatz von Sprache und dem Sprachgebrauch im politischen System und in politisch motivierten Kommunikationssituationen, der Geschichte der Texttypologien und der Sprachdynamik im historischen Kontext.

17 publications

Relations financières internationales / International Financial Relations

The «International Triffin Foundation», hosted by the Institute for European Studies at the Université catholique de Louvain (Belgium), has the objective of establishing a centre dedicated to the continuation of the scientific work and the intellectual legacy of Robert Triffin (1911–1993) in the field of the international monetary system, and more generally in the areas of economics, finance and the social sciences. Regular publications in the series «International Financial Relations» will ensure promotion of individual or collective works whose main themes are the ones with which Robert Triffin was particularly associated (the European Payments Union, the creation of Special Drawing Rights, the European Monetary System), as well as addressing the new problems which the international monetary system will be confronting at the dawn of the 21st century (external effects of the European Economic and Monetary Union, new tasks for the International Monetary Fund, prevention of financial crises, etc.). La « Fondation internationale Triffin », établie près l’Institut d’études européennes de l’Université catholique de Louvain (Belgique), s’est fixé pour objectif de constituer un centre dédié à la poursuite du travail scientifique et à la valorisation de l’héritage intellectuel de Robert Triffin (1911-1993) sur le système monétaire international, et plus généralement dans les domaines de l’économie, de la finance et des sciences sociales. Les publications de la collection « Relations financières internationales » assurent la promotion de travaux individuels et collectifs dont les thèmes centraux sont ceux auxquels Robert Triffin était particulièrement attaché – l’Union européenne des paiements, la création de Droits de Tirage Spéciaux, le Système monétaire européen. La collection accueille également des ouvrages qui abordent les futures difficultés auxquelles sera confronté le système monétaire international à l’aube du XXIe siècle, tels que les effets extérieurs de l’Union économique et monétaire européenne, les nouvelles tâches du Fonds monétaire international ou la prévention des crises financières. The «International Triffin Foundation», hosted by the Institute for European Studies at the Université catholique de Louvain (Belgium), has the objective of establishing a centre dedicated to the continuation of the scientific work and the intellectual legacy of Robert Triffin (1911–1993) in the field of the international monetary system, and more generally in the areas of economics, finance and the social sciences. Regular publications in the series «International Financial Relations» will ensure promotion of individual or collective works whose main themes are the ones with which Robert Triffin was particularly associated (the European Payments Union, the creation of Special Drawing Rights, the European Monetary System), as well as addressing the new problems which the international monetary system will be confronting at the dawn of the 21st century (external effects of the European Economic and Monetary Union, new tasks for the International Monetary Fund, prevention of financial crises, etc.).

5 publications

Régionalisme & Fédéralisme / Regionalism & Federalism

The contemporary nation-state is undergoing a series of transformations which question its traditional role as a container of social, political and economic systems. New spaces are emerging with the rise of regional production systems, movements for territorial autonomy and the rediscovery of old and the invention of new identities. States have responded by restructuring their systems of territorial government, often setting up an intermediate or regional level. There is no single model, but a range, from administrative deconcentration to federalization. Some states have regionalized in a uniform manner, while others have adopted asymmetrical solutions. In many cases, regions have gone beyond the nation-state, seeking to become actors in broader continental and transnational systems. The series covers the gamut of issues involved in this territorial restructuring, including the rise of regional production systems, political regionalism, questions of identity, and constitutional change. It will include the emergence of new systems of territorial regulation and collective action within civil society as well as the state. There is no a priori definition of what constitutes a region, since these span a range of spatial scales, from metropolitan regions to large federated states, and from administrative units to cultural regions and stateless nations. Disciplines covered include history, sociology, social and political geography, political science and law. Interdisciplinary approaches are particularly welcome. In addition to empirical and comparative studies, books focus on the theory of regionalism and federalism, including normative questions about democracy and accountability in complex systems of government. L’État-nation contemporain a subi une série de transformations qui remettent en cause son rôle traditionnel de cadre pour les systèmes sociaux, politiques et économiques. Des nouveaux espaces ont émergé avec la mise en place de systèmes de production régionaux, le développement des mouvements pour l’autonomie territoriale et la redécouverte des anciennes identités aussi bien que l’invention de nouvelles. Les États ont répondu à ces mutations par la restructuration de leurs systèmes de gouvernement territoriaux, le plus souvent par l’instauration d’un niveau intermédiaire ou régional. Il n’y a pas de modèle unique mais bien une gamme allant de la décentralisation administrative à la fédéralisation. Certains États se sont régionalisés de manière uniforme, tandis que d’autres ont adopté des solutions asymétriques. Dans plusieurs cas, les régions ont dépassé le cadre des États-nations, cherchant à devenir des acteurs au sein des systèmes continentaux et transnationaux. La collection s’intéresse à toute étude concernant cette restructuration territoriale, incluant le développement des systèmes de production régionaux, le régionalisme politique, les questions d’identité et les changements constitutionnels. Elle prend également en compte l’émergence de nouveaux systèmes de régulation territoriale et l’action collective au niveau de la société civile aussi bien que de l’État. Il n’y a pas de définition a priori de ce qui constitue une région, celle-ci pouvant embrasser un éventail de niveaux territoriaux, des régions métropolitaines aux grands États fédérés et des unités administratives aux régions culturelles et aux nations-sans-État. La collection comprend des études dans des disciplines variées telles que l’histoire, la sociologie, la géographie sociale et politique, la science politique et le droit. Les approches interdisciplinaires sont particulièrement bienvenues. Enfin, parallèlement aux études empiriques et comparatives, certains ouvrages s’intéressent à la théorie du régionalisme et du fédéralisme, incluant des questions normatives sur la démocratie et la responsabilité dans les systèmes complexes de gouvernement. The contemporary nation-state is undergoing a series of transformations which question its traditional role as a container of social, political and economic systems. New spaces are emerging with the rise of regional production systems, movements for territorial autonomy and the rediscovery of old and the invention of new identities. States have responded by restructuring their systems of territorial government, often setting up an intermediate or regional level. There is no single model, but a range, from administrative deconcentration to federalization. Some states have regionalized in a uniform manner, while others have adopted asymmetrical solutions. In many cases, regions have gone beyond the nation-state, seeking to become actors in broader continental and transnational systems. The series covers the gamut of issues involved in this territorial restructuring, including the rise of regional production systems, political regionalism, questions of identity, and constitutional change. It will include the emergence of new systems of territorial regulation and collective action within civil society as well as the state. There is no a priori definition of what constitutes a region, since these span a range of spatial scales, from metropolitan regions to large federated states, and from administrative units to cultural regions and stateless nations. Disciplines covered include history, sociology, social and political geography, political science and law. Interdisciplinary approaches are particularly welcome. In addition to empirical and comparative studies, books focus on the theory of regionalism and federalism, including normative questions about democracy and accountability in complex systems of government.

14 publications

Schriften zur quantitativen Wirtschaftswissenschaft

Die Buchreihe “Schriften zur quantitativen Wirtschaftswissenschaft“ präsentiert aktuelle Forschungsergebnisse aus dem Fachbereich der Betriebswirtschaft. Die Monographien der Reihe befassen sich unter anderem mit den Themen Risikomanagement, empirische Kapitalmarktforschung, Investment Management, Management Control Systeme, Corporate Governance und Familienunternehmen. Die Buchreihe “Schriften zur quantitativen Wirtschaftswissenschaft“ präsentiert aktuelle Forschungsergebnisse aus dem Fachbereich der Betriebswirtschaft. Die Monographien der Reihe befassen sich unter anderem mit den Themen Risikomanagement, empirische Kapitalmarktforschung, Investment Management, Management Control Systeme, Corporate Governance und Familienunternehmen. Die Buchreihe “Schriften zur quantitativen Wirtschaftswissenschaft“ präsentiert aktuelle Forschungsergebnisse aus dem Fachbereich der Betriebswirtschaft. Die Monographien der Reihe befassen sich unter anderem mit den Themen Risikomanagement, empirische Kapitalmarktforschung, Investment Management, Management Control Systeme, Corporate Governance und Familienunternehmen.

5 publications

Osteuropastudien

ISSN: 1869-506X

Die Buchreihe “Osteuropastudien“ veröffentlicht Publikationen zu Ethnologie und Kulturwissenschaften mit interdisziplinären Bezügen zu Geschichtswissenschaft und Politikwissenschaft. Die Forschungsschwerpunkte der Herausgeber liegen auf der Religions- und Kulturgeschichte Ostmittel- und Osteuropas, der Geschichte und Geschichtsschreibung Russlands, dem Vergleich politischer Systeme und der Identitäts- und Alteritätspolitik. Die Buchreihe “Osteuropastudien“ veröffentlicht Publikationen zu Ethnologie und Kulturwissenschaften mit interdisziplinären Bezügen zu Geschichtswissenschaft und Politikwissenschaft. Die Forschungsschwerpunkte der Herausgeber liegen auf der Religions- und Kulturgeschichte Ostmittel- und Osteuropas, der Geschichte und Geschichtsschreibung Russlands, dem Vergleich politischer Systeme und der Identitäts- und Alteritätspolitik. Die Buchreihe “Osteuropastudien“ veröffentlicht Publikationen zu Ethnologie und Kulturwissenschaften mit interdisziplinären Bezügen zu Geschichtswissenschaft und Politikwissenschaft. Die Forschungsschwerpunkte der Herausgeber liegen auf der Religions- und Kulturgeschichte Ostmittel- und Osteuropas, der Geschichte und Geschichtsschreibung Russlands, dem Vergleich politischer Systeme und der Identitäts- und Alteritätspolitik.

1 publications

Many Voices

The literature of the Americas has a variety of cultural elements present under the general term "American." The canonical English mainstream of North America and the corresponding Spanish/Portuguese mainstream of South America have nevertheless reflected the arrival, assimilation, and marginality of numerous groups. Their experiences are both unique and representative of universal conditions of cultural contact and conflict. In both the United States and Canada, there are works which represent diverse aspects of the Black, Irish, Italian, Hispanic or Latino, Franco, German, Jewish, Portuguese, Greek, Slavic, and Asian communities, among others, as writers give both creative and testimonial form to the realities, both past and present of groups arriving subsequent to the original colonial period. In Latin America, some of these same groups are represented in the fiction written in Spanish and Portuguese. While this series focuses on specific ethnic groups and/or individual representatives, the fictional and poetic texts therein may address a range of issues, among them race relations, language and bilingualism, nationalism, colonialism, gender, class, cultural conflict, identity and maintenance, the context of multiculturalism. Critical approaches may include ethnocriticism, historical analyses, others, as well as structural critiques of these sorts of texts which by the very nature of their multiple focus become the aesthetic model for their content: a sort of border, mixed-blood, metis linguistic mode that in turn requires a double vision of its readers and critics. The literature of the Americas has a variety of cultural elements present under the general term "American." The canonical English mainstream of North America and the corresponding Spanish/Portuguese mainstream of South America have nevertheless reflected the arrival, assimilation, and marginality of numerous groups. Their experiences are both unique and representative of universal conditions of cultural contact and conflict. In both the United States and Canada, there are works which represent diverse aspects of the Black, Irish, Italian, Hispanic or Latino, Franco, German, Jewish, Portuguese, Greek, Slavic, and Asian communities, among others, as writers give both creative and testimonial form to the realities, both past and present of groups arriving subsequent to the original colonial period. In Latin America, some of these same groups are represented in the fiction written in Spanish and Portuguese. While this series focuses on specific ethnic groups and/or individual representatives, the fictional and poetic texts therein may address a range of issues, among them race relations, language and bilingualism, nationalism, colonialism, gender, class, cultural conflict, identity and maintenance, the context of multiculturalism. Critical approaches may include ethnocriticism, historical analyses, others, as well as structural critiques of these sorts of texts which by the very nature of their multiple focus become the aesthetic model for their content: a sort of border, mixed-blood, metis linguistic mode that in turn requires a double vision of its readers and critics. The literature of the Americas has a variety of cultural elements present under the general term "American." The canonical English mainstream of North America and the corresponding Spanish/Portuguese mainstream of South America have nevertheless reflected the arrival, assimilation, and marginality of numerous groups. Their experiences are both unique and representative of universal conditions of cultural contact and conflict. In both the United States and Canada, there are works which represent diverse aspects of the Black, Irish, Italian, Hispanic or Latino, Franco, German, Jewish, Portuguese, Greek, Slavic, and Asian communities, among others, as writers give both creative and testimonial form to the realities, both past and present of groups arriving subsequent to the original colonial period. In Latin America, some of these same groups are represented in the fiction written in Spanish and Portuguese. While this series focuses on specific ethnic groups and/or individual representatives, the fictional and poetic texts therein may address a range of issues, among them race relations, language and bilingualism, nationalism, colonialism, gender, class, cultural conflict, identity and maintenance, the context of multiculturalism. Critical approaches may include ethnocriticism, historical analyses, others, as well as structural critiques of these sorts of texts which by the very nature of their multiple focus become the aesthetic model for their content: a sort of border, mixed-blood, metis linguistic mode that in turn requires a double vision of its readers and critics.

5 publications