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Alphonse Gabriel »Al« Capone (1899-1947) war einer der berüchtigtsten Verbrecher Amerikas. Er kontrollierte die Chicagoer Unterwelt und machte erfolgreich Geschäfte mit illegalem Glücksspiel, Prostitution, Schutzgelderpressung und Alkoholhandel. Capone wurde zum Symbol für die organisierte Kriminalität.Alfred Hornung zeigt in seiner konkurrenzlosen Biografie, wie der Gangsterboss den amerikanischen Traum radikal und maßlos lebte. Al Capone ste...

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 of life writing for the disciplines of American Studies. Experts in the field such as literary and cultural critics Sidonie Smith, Craig Howes, Birgit Däwes, historian Thomas Bender, and writer critic Siri Hust...

This volume focuses on the intercultural constitution of the American continent, especially the interactions of indigenous native with European, African and Asian cultures in North America, from Puritanism to the 21st century. In an interdisciplinary dialogue of European and American critics, the contributions discuss immediate and long-range effects of intercultural encounters between settlers and ethnic groups, between immigrants and the Ang...

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 field of studies from a national to a transnational or even global focus. The multi-ethnic biographies of the Obama family extend from its Luo origins in Kenya to Hawai'i, Asia, and Europe and lend themselves ...

Jacks Londons Leben war erfüllt von einer unstillbaren Sehnsucht nach Glück. Als uneheliches Kind mittelloser Eltern geboren, suchte er den Erfolg am Rande der Kriminalität, als Tagelöhner quer durch Amerika reisend, als Goldgräber in Alaska und als Matrose auf See. >Der Seewolf< und >Ruf der Wildnis< sind Klassiker der Abenteuerliteratur. Sie spiegeln das exzessive Leben des Schriftstellers zwischen Alkohol und Ruhm, hochfliegenden Plänen und...

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 to explore the centrality of sexuality to cultural concerns. At the same time, this centrality also involves the necessity of a linkage of sexuality to other aspects of identity, e.g. race, class, and gender. ...

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 range from theoretical discussions of non-representational art forms and the defense of literary representation against deconstructive practices to the manifestation of political representation in postcolonial work...

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 insights into the redefinition of the self in contact with nature in different parts of the world. Articles range from the American tradition of nature writing via the ecological traditions of Native Americans a...

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 transculturation of immigrants from different parts of the Arab world. The contributions, which result from a teacher training conference, present survey articles on Arab American literature, politics and immigration ...