Acknowledgments

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgments V
3. Contents VII
4. Introduction: Water and Unicorns. On Contemporary Fiction 1
5. Chapter 1. Migration. Moving through Images and Words: Herta Müller’s The Passport (Der Mensch ist ein großer Fasan auf der Welt, 1986) and Gish Jen’s Typical American (1991) 9
6. Chapter 2. Intercultural Dialogue. Communication across Space and Time in the New Millennium: Hugo Loetscher’s The Mandarin’s Eyes (Die Augen des Mandarin, 1999) 69
7. Chapter 3. Defining the Self. Identity Formation in a Post-colonial World: Martin R. Dean’s My Fathers (Meine Väter, 2003) and Habib Tengour’s This Particular Tartar 2 (Besagter Tatar 2 / Ce Tatar-là 2, 1997–1998) 123
8. Chapter 4. Invasion. Religion, War, and the Politics of Narration: Ian McEwan’s Saturday (2005) 187
9. Conclusion 243
10. Bibliography 251
11. Index 271