Transcultural Identity Constructions in a Changing World

Irene Gilsenan Nordin is Professor Emerita of English, Dalarna University, Sweden. Chatarina Edfeldt is Lecturer in Portuguese, Lung-Lung Hu is Lecturer in Chinese, Herbert Jonsson is Lecturer in Japanese, and André Leblanc is Lecturer in French – all at the School of Humanities and Media Studies, Dalarna University, Sweden. All are members of the Transcultural Identities research group at Dalarna University.

• Contents: Irene Gilsenan Nordin/Chatarina Edfeldt/Lung-Lung Hu/Herbert Jonsson/André Leblanc: Introduction: Transcultural Identity Constructions in a Changing World – Miguel Vale de Almeida: Multicultural: Stories of Political and Cultural (Mis)Understandings – Alan Grossman: Curiously Mediating Identity Formations Across Borders and Interdisciplinary Boundaries: Transcultural Film Practice – M. I. Franklin: Veil Dressing and the Gender Geopolitics of «What Not to Wear» – Christina Kullberg: Interview With Haitian Canadian Novelist Dany Laferriere, de l’Académie francaise – Mattias Aronsson: Ethnic Differentiation and Assimilation in Marguerite Duras’s Indochinese Texts – André Leblanc: Transcultural Identity as a Personal Myth: The Case of Amélie Nothomb – Britta Olinder: Cultural Relations and Aboriginal Identity in Sally Morgan’s My Place – Christophe Premat/Françoise Sule: Remembering the Migrant Identity: A Comparative Study of Les Pieds Sales, by Edem Awumey, and Ru, by Kim Thúy – Christina Kullberg: «We Have to Keep Moving»: Transnational Witnessing in Dany Laferriere’s The World is Moving Around Me – Ching-Chung Lin: Transculturality in Thomas Mann’s Novella Tonio Kröger – Emma Duester: Travelling Art Cultures: Transcultural Identities Illustrated by Baltic Artists – Lung-Lung Hu: Legal and Cultural Identity: A Case of Adultery in the Chinese Story «Drying Clothes» – Hiroko Inose: Not Crossing the Boundary: The Untranslatable in Japanese-English Bilingual Literature – Letizia Fusini: The Dao of Writing: Transcultural Literary Identity in Gao Xingjian’s Novel Soul Mountain – Chu-chueh Cheng: Old Fear in New Face: Yellow Peril of the Twenty-First Century in Sherlock – Margarida Esteves Pereira: Fallen Women on the Contemporary Global Screen: Transnational and Transhistorical Adaptations of Eça de Queirós’s The Crime of Father Amaro and Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles – Tin Kei Wong: Globalisation and Cultural Contact in Crash (2004) and Babel (2005) – Anita Purcell Sjölund: My Name is Gary Cooper, But it is also Samoan.