German Minority Literature: Tongues Set Free & Pointed Tongues.(Anant...

International Fiction Review;  January 1, 2001 ;   Veteto-Conrad, Marilya;   787 words ......was not even known in 1977: German minority literature. Indeed, as non-ethnic Germans were...literature (Auslanderliteratur), or minority literature. Bringing Canetti and minority literature together is primarily a useful Goethe-esq...

Language, Person, and Place: Echoes of Religion in Minority Literatures

Journal for the Study of Religion : JSR;  January 1, 2006 ;   Chidester, David;   787 words ...Abstract Minority literature, whether produced by prominent...in the work of authors of minority literature who operate on the margins...but they are resources for minority literature by writers displaced or alienated...

GENQ poll.(Brief article)

The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine);  March 13, 2007 ;     46 words ......January 30 issue we asked: How would you improve college diversity? Results: Enforce affirmative action: 9% More minority organizations: 13% Provide minority literature and history classes: 32% Zero-tolerance policv on racism and homophobia: 46%

Writing from the Margins - and Beyond ...

Journal for the Study of Religion : JSR;  January 1, 2006 ;   van Ryneveld, Hannelore;   787 words ......first step, a brief clarification of what is defined as minority literature within the context of this article. In 1975 Gilles Deleuze...their country of origin. Their status as members of a minority literature is linked to the issue of nationality: nonGermans (who...

Edna Aizenberg. Books and Bombs in Buenos Aires: Borges, Gerchunoff, and...

World Literature Today;  April 1, 2003 ;   Foster, David William;   654 words ......identity) cannot continue to be viewed as a marginal or minority literature in Argentina, as nothing more than the curious phenomenon...Jewish writing, for that matter--is not a marginal or minority literature. Rather, it is at the heart of what may now be called...

The German Legacy in East Central Europe as Recorded in Recent...

German Quarterly;  October 1, 2005 ;   Hock, Lisabeth;   739 words ......either the category of "German literature" or that of "minority literature," German-speaking authors from East Central Europe have...helps to broaden our understanding of German-language minority literature. [Author Affiliation] LISABETH HOCK Wayne State University

(book reviews)

Scandinavian Studies;  January 1, 1997 ;   Dana, Kathleen Osgood;   625 words ......discernible from afar and little attended at home. One tool a minority literature offers is the lens of magnification; close study of that...are common, but analysis and criticism of this emerging minority literature, such as Lehtola's incisive and sympathetic views, are...

McKissack, Patricia C.

The Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature;    William L. Andrews, Frances Smith Foster, and Trudier Harris;   584 words ...McKissack, Patricia C. (b. 1944), editor and consultant on minority literature, and writer of children's picture books, short stories, and nonfiction works primarily in the fields of African American history...

Globalization and "Asian values": teaching and theorizing Asian American...

College Literature;  January 1, 2005 ;   Shu, Yuan;   787 words ......cultures or simply fall victim to the commercialization of minority literature in American culture and society. The questions of minority...11th. To begin, why should college students today study minority literature and expose themselves to the racial politics in the United...

Books from parallel cultures: what's happening? (minority literature)

The Horn Book Magazine;  January 1, 1994 ;   Bishop, Rudine Sims;   787 words ...I use the term parallel culture to describe groups formerly called minority, to suggest to you that so-called minorities -- those blacks, browns, and yellows -- make up a vast contingent in the world view. It seems fitting to acknowledge that all peoples stand as equals side by side. Thus parallel

Staub und Sterne. Aufsatze zur deutsch-judischen Literatur

German Quarterly;  January 1, 2002 ;   Lorenz, Dagmar C G;   787 words ......paperback. Edited by Sigrid Bauschinger and Paul Michael Lutzeler, two of the foremost senior experts in German-Jewish and minority literature, and recommended by Ruth Kluger, the distinguished author of weiter leben, this edition of selected scholarly articles...

Postmodernism and subversive parody: John Yau's "Genghis Chan: private...

College Literature;  January 1, 2004 ;   Xiaojing, Zhou;   787 words ......u's poetry, its reading of Yau's Genghis Chart series breaks away from those critical approaches to postmodern poetry and minority literature, which assume a false dichotomy that renders agency of the Othered subject and postmodern poetics mutually exclusive...

Beaverton educators get diversity lesson.

ORian (Portland, OR);  August 24, 2007 ;     506 words ......other staff at Westview High School on Thursday. Topics ranged from examining one's biases and prejudices to incorporating minority literature in the classroom. The cutting edge training comes at an important time in the district, said Ed Duenez, an Aloha High...

White supremacist fliers showing up on MBTA property.

The Boston Herald;  August 28, 1997 ;   Brown, Laura;   419 words ......contributing to a hostile racial environment and so does the T. It's critical to take it down immediately. The flood of anti-minority literature follows the appointment last month of the T's first black general manager, Robert Prince, and a historic anti-discrimination...

Book praised

China Daily;  April 22, 2002 ;     321 words ......of Qizheng Tibetan Medicine Group, said Danzhu Angben, a Tibetan scholar with the Central Translation Centre of Ethnic Minority Literature. "As a Tibetan scholar, I once again feel the splendid achievements of my people, and wander freely on the Himalayas and...