The first book to offer a cutting-edge discussion of contemporary travel writing in German, Anxious Journeys looks both at classical tropes of travel writing and its connection to current debates. The rich contemporary literature of travel has been the focus of numerous recent publications in English that seek to understand how travel narratives, with their distinctive representations of identities, places, and cultures, respond to today's globalized, high-speed world characterized by the dual mass movements of tourism and migration. Yet a corresponding cutting-edge discussion of twenty-first-century travel writing in German has until now been missing. The fourteen essays in Anxious Journeys redress this situation. They analyze texts by leading authors such as Felicitas Hoppe, Christoph Ransmayr, Julie Zeh, Navid Kermani, Judith Schalansky, Ilija Trojanow, and others, as well as topics such as Turkish-German travelogues and the relationship of comics to travel writing. The volume examines how writers engage with classic tropes of travel writing and how they react to the current sense of crisis and belatedness. It also links travel to ongoing debates about the role of the nation, mass migration, and the European project, as well as to Germany's place in the larger world order. Contributors: Karin Baumgartner, Heather Merle Benbow, Anke S. Biendarra, John Blair and Muriel Cormican, Nicole Coleman, Carola Daffner, Christina Gerhardt, Nicole Grewling, Gundela Hachmann, Andrew Wright Hurley, Christina Kraenzle, Magda Tarnawaska Senel, Monika Shafi, Sunka Simon. Karin Baumgartner is Professor of German at the University of Utah. Monika Shafi is Elias Ahuja Professor of German at the University of Delaware.

Kinder und Jugendliche in der stationaren Kinder- und Jugendhilfe haben oft schon viele Krisen und Bruche hinter sich, Phasen mit Ubergangen, Abschied und Neubeginn. Nicht selten fehlen ihnen wichtige Informationen in ihrer Lebensgeschichte und sie entwickeln ganz eigene Phantasien uber Lucken oder Ereignisse. Um sich positiv entwickeln zu konnen, ist es wichtig, ein Wissen uber die eigene Lebensgeschichte zu haben und Ereignisse integrieren und akzeptieren zu konnen. Biografiearbeit als konkrete Form der Begleitung, Unterstutzung und Gestaltung biografischer Prozesse ermoglicht es den Kindern und Jugendlichen, fruhere Erfahrungen, Fakten und Ereignisse zu erinnern, zu rekonstruieren, zu dokumentieren, zu bewaltigen und zu bewahren. Das Rekonstruieren von lebensgeschichtlichen Gesamtzusammenhangen erleichtert das Verstehen sich wiederholender Verhaltens- und Beziehungsmuster. Die Autorin beschreibt sowohl theoretische Grundlagen als auch Moglichkeiten der praktischen Umsetzung im Hilfeprozess und fuhrt dabei die beiden Themen Biografiearbeit und stationare Kinder- und Jugendhilfe auf Grundlage unterschiedlicher theoretischer Zugange zusammen.

From Multiculturalism to Hybridity: New Approaches to Teaching Switzerland places Switzerland within the context of transnational labor migration and examines how this German-, French-, Italian-, and Romansh-speaking nation is being transformed by the influx of migrants from all over the world who now constitute a fifth of the population. This dynamic mixture of cultures and races is embodied by a new generation of citizens who call themselves "Secondas and Secondos," the second generation. Today, Switzerland is leading all industrial nations in growth potential and economic benefits from migration (OECD). The articles in this volume analyze the challenges, successes, and ongoing struggles Switzerland experiences with migration, focusing specifically on what it means to shape a nation-state by political will rather than linguistic and cultural unity.From Multiculturalism to Hybridity also offers teaching suggestions for the French, German, and Italian language and literature classroom as well as for courses in Social, Cultural, and Political Studies. Articles address the hybrid literatures and cultures of Switzerland including films, pageants, smellscapes, and women's issues and place Switzerland in the context of a unifying European continent. Readers will find ideas and resources for critically investigating and teaching the concepts of cultural hybridity and transculturalism in the high school and college classroom.