Reflections on the Dilectics of Marginalization

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Transcript of Reflections on the Dilectics of Marginalization

Forum for

World Literature Studies

Vol.5 No.2 August 2013

Editors in Chief

Huang Tiechi, Shanghai Normal University, China

Nie Zhenzhao, Central China Normal University, China

Charles Ross, Purdue University, U.S.A

Editorial Assistants

Yang GexinZheng JieBo Ling

Shanghai · Wuhan · West Lafayette

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Forum for

World Literature Studies

Vol.5 No.2 August 2013

Special Thematic Issue

Marginalization and Minorities in

Contemporary World Literature and Film

Edited by

Jørgen Veisland

Shanghai·Wuhan·West Lafayette

2013 2

Editorial Board

Valerie Babb/ University of Georgia, USAMaassimo Bacigalupo/Universita' di Genova, Italy

Elleke Boehmer/ University of Oxford, UK Ty Buckman/ Wittenberg University, USA

Knut Brynhildsvoll/ University of Oslo, NorwayArturo Casas/Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, SpainChen Zhongyi/ Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China

Chen Wei/ Shanghai Normal University, ChinaFan Pik Wah/ University of Malaya, Malaysia

Fan Xing/ Wuhan University, ChinaMargot Hillel/ Australian Catholic University, Australia

Martin Humpal/Charles University in Prague, Czech RepublicKoji Kawamoto/Tokyo University, JapanHank Lazer/University of Alabama, USA

Lee Nam Ho/Korea University, KoreaLeevi Lehto/Finland

Liao Kebin/Peking University, ChinaLiu Jianjun/ Northeast Normal University, China

Luo Lianggong/ Central China Normal University, ChinaRoland Lysell/ University of Stockholm, Sweden

Anne-Marie Mai/University of Southern Denmark, DenmarkRana Nayar/ Panjab University, India

Jale Parla/ Ìstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi, TurkyElizabeth Ramos/ Universidade Federal da Bahia, Brazil

John Rathmell/ University of Cambridge, UKDerek Parker Royal/ University of Nebraska at Kearney, USAStephan Michael Schröder/University of Cologne Germany

RAkesh Mohan Sharma/ SPN Mahavidyalaya, IndiaMonica Spiridon/ Bucharest University, Romania

Sun Jian / Fudan University, ChinaJüri Talvet / University of Tartu, Estonia

Kwok-kan Tam/ The Open University of Hong Kong, ChinaJørgen Veisland/ University of Gdansk, Poland

Tatiana Venediktova/ Lomonosov Moscow State University, RussiaTomo Virk/ University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

Claire Connolly/ University College Cork, IrelandWang Xiaoping/ Tianjin Normal University, China

Wang Lixing/ Nankai University, ChinaYin Qiping/ Hangzhou Normal University, ChinaZheng Kelu/ Shanghai Normal University, China

Harry Garuba / University of Cape Town, South Africa

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Contents

Studies on Marginalization and Minorities in

Contemporary World Literature and Film

229 Marginalization and Minorities in Contemporary World Literature and Film:

Introduction

Jørgen Veisland

236-248 The Marginalization of Death in Culture Based on Selected Examples of

Modern Literature and Philosophy

249-256 Being a Minority: Colonial Africa in Muriel Spark’s Short Stories Cycle

257-268 The Presence of the Other in Knud Rasmussen’s “The New People”

269-275 The Experience of Marginalisation in the Process of Discovering Identity in

Out of place and Persepolis

Magdalena Stola

276-288 A Mysterious Closeness: Africa and Europe in Kirsten Thorup’s The God of

Chance

Jørgen Veisland

289-300 Black Male Marginalization in Early Twentieth Century American Canonical

Novels:The Great Gatsby and Of Mice and Men

301-310 Caught in the Middle:Jewish Soldiers in American War Fiction

311-317 A Citizen of the World:Count Leon Skórzewski

318-325 The Transparent Peasant: On the Narrative Voice in John Berger’s Into Their

Labours Trilogy

326-334 Discrimination of Sexual and AIDS Minorities in Jonathan Demme’s

Philadelphia (1993)

335-341 Searching for the Other in HBO’s Hit Series True Blood

342-353 An Ostracized Minority Silently Facing Denial of Social Acceptance: The

Depiction of Disabled People in South Korean and Japanese Movies

354-366 Dissection and Assembly: Malayan Imagery in Tash Aw’s The Harmony Silk

Factory

367-374 Love and the Others: Discussions of Tenor and Vehicle in Tash Aw’s Map of

the Invisible World

Chai Siaw Ling

375-383 The Palace Entertainment Institutions in the Tang Poetries

Wang Li

384-400 The Appropriation of Daoist and Marxist Concepts of Dialectics in Brecht’s

Theatre

Zheng Jie

401-408 Gwendolyn Brooks’s Nationalist Position and Aesthetic Dynamics

Shi Liling

409-415 The War Ethics in Wars:Taking Trojan War as an Example

Zhong Ming

416-428 An Interview with Jerry W. Ward, Jr.

Wang Zuyou

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