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Linguistic, Literary, and Cultural Diversity in a Global Perspective
Edited by Adams Bodomo and Carola Koblitz
[FILLM Studies in Languages and Literatures 21] 2024
► pp. vii–viii

Table of contents

Series editor’s preface ix
Acknowledgements xi
Introduction 1

Part I.Multilingualism and linguistic plurality in local and global perspectives

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Chapter 1.Different meanings of “diversity” 8
Chapter 2.A rainbow in the dark: Beyond global diversity 27
Chapter 3.Multilingualism, identity, and diversity: The iLanguage perspective: embracing diversity in youth multilingualism 45

Part II.Cultural diversity in film

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Chapter 4.La diversité des stations thermales dans le cinéma 72
Chapter 5.“Is your culture better than mine?”: Identity construction of inter‑ethnic marriages in selected Nigerian movies 90
Chapter 6.Nigeria’s cultural and linguistic diversity through Mount Zion movies 111
Chapter 7.National identity and cultural diversity in films: A comparison between Disney and Chinese version of Mulan 126
Chapter 8.Female-object: How is the female character referred to in Tears of the Black Tiger (2000) 135

Part III.Linguistic and literary studies in diaspora and migrant communities

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Chapter 9.Bridging times in Wajdi Mouawad’s play Forests 158
Chapter 10.How Deleuze and Guattari’s nomadic thoughts contribute to a new humanity 174
Chapter 11.Who are the others? Oppression and vulnerability in the personal narratives of women 197

Part IV.German language and literature in global perspectives

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Chapter 12.Individual metaphor in German-language literature in the aspect of multiculturalism and migration 210
Chapter 13.Between literature and politics: German-Turkish literature (2017–2020) in the mirror of “Çağlayan” magazine 234
Chapter 14.“Babylonisches idiom”: Life-writing and linguistic diversity in Goethe’s Poetry and Truth 256
Index 271
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