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
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
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
Ulysses
negative
Ulysses
Finnegan’s Wake
Ulysses
with the non-transparent world without end
maestro di color che sanno
nacheinander
nebeneinander
Vol.5 No.2 August 2013
nebeneinander Los Demiurgos
Won't you come to Sandymount,
Madeline the mare?
deline the mare
Basta
Negative Dialectics
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