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The Unifying Aspects of Cultures

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The Woman as a Place of Cultural Encounter

Chair of the section/Suggestions, Abstracts, Contributions to:
Email: Kathleen Thorpe (Johannesburg)

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ABSTRACT: In the course of history different cultures have encountered each other again and again in various ways. As a result of the current globalization, however, cultures are coming into contact more frequently and more intensively than ever before. By means of a historical background of cultural encounters, for example, Asia-Europe, Africa-Europe, the Habsburg Empire, etc., this section will attempt to show the unifying aspects of these cultural meetings. In this sense the aim is to examine the contemporary literature by and about women in their various cultural encounters, taking into account such aspects as, for example, relationships between the sexes, politics and cultural policies, migrant literature, colonial literature and youth literature, among others.

CONTRIBUTIONS FOR SECTIONS

• Kathleen Thorpe (Johannesburg): The Woman as the Site of Cultural Encounter - an Overview  [ABSTRACT]
• Ilja A. Luciak (Virginia Tech, USA): Gender and Democracy in Cuba: Western and Cuban Perspectives  [ABSTRACT]
• Ewa Machut-Mendecka (Warsaw University): Child's obligations and rights in the Arab culture  [ABSTRACT]
• Stephen Naudé (University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg): "A Very Bitter Love-Making": women as places of cross-cultural encounter in William Plomer's Turbott Wolfe  [ABSTRACT]
• Elin Nesje Vestli (Hochschule Østfold, Halden/Norwegen): Doris Gerckes Krimis über Bella Block: ein europäisches Gewebe  [ABSTRACT]
• Undine Weber (Rhodes University, Südafrika): Die gescheiterte Begegnung nicht nur weißer Frauen und schwarzer Männer in Wolfgang Koeppens Nachkriegstrilogie  [ABSTRACT]

THE UNIFYING ASPECTS OF CULTURES

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