
Janna Odabas
Janna Odabas, born in 1984, completed the program of the Graduate School of North American Studies at Freie Universität Berlin. In 2014, she received the Young Scholar Excellence Award of the Society for Multi-Ethnic Studies: Europe and the Americas (MESEA). Her work focuses on questions of identity and migration.
transcript-Publikationen in den Bereichen: Cultural Studies, Englische und Amerikanische Literaturwissenschaft, Kulturwissenschaft, Literaturwissenschaft
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The Ghosts Within
Frontmatter
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Table of Contents
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Acknowledgements
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Introduction
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1. "risk the violence of reading the ghost" - Theoretical Reflections on Ghost Figures
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2. Postcolonial Melodramatic Ghost Figures: Signs of Dis-ease in Lois-Ann Yamanaka's Behold the Many
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3. Traditions of Haunting: The Narration of a Ghostly Self and a Family's Ghosts in Heinz Insu Fenkl's Memories of My Ghost Brother
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4. Renegotiating a Global Asian America: The Ghost in Global Genre Fiction by Amitav Ghosh, Amy Tan, and Ed Lin
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Conclusion
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Works Cited
Seiten 245 - 264