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Ever since feminist scholarship began to reintroduce Harriet
Beecher Stowe's writings to the American Literary canon in the
1970s, critical interest in her work has steadily increased.
Rediscovery and ultimate canonization, however, have concentrated
to a large extent on her major novelistic achievement, Uncle Tom's
Cabin (1852). Only in recent years have critics begun to focus more
seriously on the wide variety of her work and started to create
knowledge that broadens our understanding. Beyond Uncle Tom's
Cabin: The Writings of Harriet Beecher Stowe, edited by Sylvia
Mayer and Monika Mueller, shows that during her long writing and
publishing career, Stowe was a highly prolific writer who targeted
diverse audiences, dealt with drastically changing economic,
commercial, and cultural contexts, and wrote in a diversity of
genres. Reflecting a recent trend to move Stowe's other texts to
the fore, the essays collected in this volume thus go beyond the
critical focus on Uncle Tom's Cabin. They focus on several of
Stowe's other texts that have also significantly contributed to
American literary and cultural history, among them her New England
novels, her New York City novels, and her fictional writings on
religious differences between Europe and the United States. The
essays in the first part of Beyond Uncle Tom's Cabin concentrate on
Stowe's language use, her rhetoric and choices of narrative
technique and style, while the essays in the second part
concentrate on thematic issues such as the representation of race,
ethnicity, and religion, her participation in the emerging
environmentalist movement, and Stowe's response to major economic
shifts after the Civil War.
Upon walking U.S. inner-city streets you sooner or later come upon
groups of black kids wearing prison-style outfits; there is a boom
box, and rap music. And inevitably you will hear the N-word. Upon
entering a district housing migrants in any European city you will
encounter almost identical scenes - youngsters dressed in prison
style, the boom box, rap. Only most of the kids are of a "white" or
olive complexion. They call themselves "Wiggers," "white Niggers"
or "Black albinos." It was this "Wigger" metaphor, with its
implications of a transnational response to uprootedness and
racialized exclusion that inspired CAAR to invite African American
researchers working among inner city black youth and European and
Israeli migration scholars to a symposium of trans-cultural and -
national orientation called "Crossing Boundaries." We placed the
study of African American youth - and thus a native though
marginalized American population - next to research on migrant
youth in Western Europe. The essays gathered here hope to
contribute to an understanding on how to address the myriad
challenges that both the youth and the countries in which they live
must confront.
From Black to Schwarz explores the long and varied history of the
exchanges between African America and Germany with a particular
focus on cultural interplay. Covering a wide range of media of
expression - music, performance, film, scholarship, literature,
visual arts, reviews - the essays collected in this volume trace
and analyze a cultural interaction, collaboration and mutual
transformation that began in the eighteenth century, literally
boomed during the Harlem Renaissance/Weimar Republic, could not
even be liquidated by the Third Reich's Degenerate Art' campaigns,
and, with new media available to further exchanges, is still
increasingly empowering and inspiring participants on both sides of
the Atlantic.
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