CAROL AISHA BLACKSHIRE-BELAY is Director of the International Afro-German Network and teaches Germanic Linguistics and Cultural Studies at Ohio State University. Widely recognized as one of the leading experts on minorities in contemporary German society, her publications have appeared in the Journal of Black Studies, University of Pennsylvania Review of Linguistics, OSU Foreign Language Publications, and ERIC Resources in Education. Included among her books are The Image of Africa in German Society, Language Contact: Verb Morphology in German of Foreign Workers, and Foreign Workers' German: A Concise Glossary of Verbal Phrases. Her current research deals with multiculturalism in German-speaking societies, and the impact of German colonialism on non-European societies.

• Introduction: Cultural and Linguistic Diversity in Germanic-Speaking Societies by Carol Aisha Blackshire-Belay Literary Analysis: Motifs and Reflective Designs Die Lebens-Ansichten des Katers Murr: Romantic Perspectives on "Us" and "Them" by Christopher R. Clason Work and Freedom in the Minority Community: Ferdinano von Saar's Die Troglodytin by Virginia L. Lewis "Libuse's Success and Francine's Bitterness": Libuse MonikoVA's and Her Protagonist in Pavane fur eine verstorbene Infantin by Jozef A. Modzelewski Recent Romanian-German Poetry: Bossert, Hodjak, Modoi, Britz by Fritz H. Konig Orchids and Mother Tongues: Telling Turkish-German Stories by Patricia Anne Simpson "Wir haben ihnen Romanautoren gesandt": Aras Oren's Eine verspatete Abrechnung and Guney Dal's Der enthaarte Affe by Susan Kassouf Revisionary Revelations: Women and Self-Worth in Two West German Short Stories by Lisa Tyler A Burning Issue: Isolde's Oath in Its Historical Context by Vickie Ziegler Linguistic Portrayals: Assessment and Prognosis Languages and Peoples in Contact: Early Germanic and Early Finnic by Thomas W. Juntune Linguistic Aspects of the Romanian-Saxon Contact in Transylvania by Adrian Poruciuc Migration and Bilingualism by Ulrich Steinmuller Language, Literature, and the Question of Cultural Identity: Problems of the German-Swiss by Romey Sabalius The Disruption of a Triglossic Situation as a Motivating Factor for Language Death: The Case of Western Yiddish by Kerstin Hoge A Demographic Perspective on the Shift from Irish to English by Terence Odlin Gastarberiterdeutsch, "Foreign Workers' German": An Industrial Pidgin by Glen G. Gilbert and Pavlos Pavlou Marginal Linguistic Existence: The Case of an Italian Woman by Carol Aisha Blackshire-Belay Cultural and Political Perspectives: Contemporary and Historical Realities Reflections on the "Political" Scholar by Peter O'Brien Language Policy for a Post-Apartheid South Africa: Models and Questions by Gudrun Oberprieler Cultural Complementarities in Frischmuth's Turkish Novel by Peter Hertz-Ohmes Icelandic Literature: A Historical Luxury? by Aitor Yraola "History Presupposes Memory": The Diverse Discourse on Connectedness by Ingo Roland Stoehr Narrative Strategies as Cultural Vehicles: On Rafik Schami's Novel Erzahler der Nacht by Iman O. Khalil The Stories of Rafik Schami as Reflections of His Psychopolitical Program by Donna Kinerney Discourse, Structures, and Strategies: The Problem of Prejudice and Perception German Literature by Female Foreigners by Irmgard Ackermann The Encounter with the Other World: AndRE Kaminski's Search for the Jewish Past by Albrecht Classen Fanny Lewald and Judaism: The Writer, the Woman, the Prussian, the Jew by Hanna B. Lewis German-Writing Authors in Israel by Margarita Pazi Alaska-Trip: Exported GDR Anti-Semitism by Victoria Joan Moessner The Construction of Homosexuality in National Socialist Germany by Robert Vocca Homosexual Identity (Misin)Formation in Hesse's Demian by Patrick J. Gignac Suggestions for Further Reading Index