Treusorgender Familienvater, knallharter Mafia-Boss und Liebling der Massen Schutzgelderpressung, Prostitution, illegales Glücksspiel, organisierte Kriminalität: Al Capone, genannt Scarface, war ein erfolgreicher Geschäftsmann der...

This volume focuses on the literature and culture of Arabs living in the United States who have gained new prominence after 9/11. For a proper assessment of their situation it seeks to provide basic information on the history and...

This volume focuses on religious, historical, literary, cultural and political models, developed in America, for the realization and representation of American lives. These original articles demonstrate the importance of different forms...

Contributors from five continents address the widespread geographical and political reverberations connected with the emergence of the name Obama in the media and in the consciousness of the world and relate it to the transformation of a...

In connection with recent postmodernist and poststructuralist analyses of gender constructions, sexuality has come to the forefront of discussions dealing with identity conceptions and definitions of culture as such. This volume sets out...

This volume examines the interrelations between ecological concerns and personal forms of writing in Europe, Asia, and America. It assembles contributions from an international conference of experts from four continents who provide new...

"Jack London: Abenteuer des Lebens" von Alfred Hornung ist eine biografische Darstellung des Lebens und Wirkens des berühmten amerikanischen Schriftstellers Jack London. Das Buch beleuchtet Londons abenteuerliches Leben, das von seiner...

The contributions to this volume by European and American critics analyze different forms of representation and decoration in twentieth-century American literature and the arts from the critical perspective of a postmodern age. They...