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Der vorliegende Abschlussbericht besteht aus zwei Teilen: während Teil A die ausführlichen Ergebnisse der begleitend durchgeführten Evaluation der Qualifizierungsschecks in Hessen für das Jahr 2014 darstellt, fasst Teil B die Ergebnisse des Projekts „Informationssystem berufliche Weiterbildung in Hessen“ zusammen. Das Informationssystem berufliche Weiterbildung in Hessen wurde gefördert vom Hessischen Ministerium für Wirtschaft, Verkehr und Landesentwicklung und durch Mittel aus den Europäischen Sozialfonds Hessen. Die Projektdauer umfasste den Zeitraum vom 1.8.2008 bis zum 31.12.2014.
Es besteht ein weitgehender Konsens darüber, dass die Literatur an der Herausbildung des kulturellen Gedächtnisses entscheidend mitwirkt. Dies gilt nicht nur in archaischen Zeiten, in denen die 'res gestae' dem Gedächtnis künftiger Generationen anvertraut werden, sondern es gilt auch für die Moderne, in der literarische Texte Teil eines Traditionszusammenhangs sind, mittels dessen eine Gesellschaft sich selbst eine kulturelle Identität zuschreibt. Insbesondere jene Elemente gesellschaftlicher Interaktion, die normativen Erwartungen ausgesetzt sind [...], werden Gegenstand bewahrenswerter Kommunikation und können dadurch als aktualisierbarer Sinn (bzw. Semantik im Luhmann'schen Verständnis) jederzeit verwendet werden. Eine so verstandene Konzeption des kulturellen Gedächtnisses beruht auf dem Gedanken der Kontinuität. Im Extremfall wird solche Kontinuität durch Rituale oder durch die Religion über Jahrhunderte hinweg aufrechterhalten bzw. es wird suggeriert, dass es eine solche Kontinuität gebe. Diese Kontinuität überschreitet auch den Tod des Einzelnen.
Was aber geschieht, wenn aufgrund einer Katastrophe eine ganze Gesellschaft vernichtet wird?
Die optimale Nutzung vorhandener Potentiale von Beschäftigten sowie die bestmögliche Unterstützung von Unternehmen bei der Entwicklung ihrer Beschäftigten sind wichtige Stellschrauben
für eine gezielte und innovative Fachkräftesicherung. Allerdings bedarf solch eine Strategie zunächst einer Transparenz, die Orientierung darüber schafft, in welchem Maße sogenannte unter- und überwertige Beschäftigung stattfindet und in welchen Branchen und Berufsgruppen dies der Fall ist.
Unterwertige Beschäftigung liegt vor, wenn der formale Berufsabschluss höher als die tatsächlich ausgeführte Tätigkeit ist. In diesen Fällen wird davon ausgegangen, dass sich noch weitere Potentiale der Beschäftigten erschließen lassen. Die Umkehrung findet sich bei der überwertigen Beschäftigung. Hier liegen die formalen Qualifikationsabschlüsse deutlich unter den Anforderungen der aktuellen Beschäftigung. Entsprechend sind Qualifizierungsprozesse notwendig, um den höheren Anforderungen gerecht werden zu können. Dabei sind innerbetriebliche, auch informelle Lernprozesse von großer Bedeutung. Neben diesen beiden Formen des vertikalen (formalen) Qualifikationsmismatches können zudem horizontale Mismatches vorliegen. Dies trifft zu, wenn Kompetenzen, häufig Softskills, nicht im Arbeitsvollzug eingesetzt werden können. Auch hier kann von noch zu erschließenden Potentialen ausgegangen werden. Auf Basis von Daten sozialversicherungspflichtig Beschäftigter ist ein Abgleich zwischen dem formalen Berufsabschluss sowie dem formalen beruflichen Anforderungsniveau möglich. Anhand des Abgleichs lässt sich formale unter- und überwertige Beschäftigung ermitteln. Einschätzungen zur Art und zum Umfang horizontaler Mismatches können derzeit auf der Basis von Primärdaten stattfinden.
Ein besonderes Kennzeichen des Frankfurter Arbeitsmarktes besteht in der hohen Teilhabe von Frauen an sozialversicherungspflichtiger Beschäftigung. Diese Teilhabe ist jedoch keine gleichwertige im Vergleich zu Männern, da Frauen deutlich öfter als Männer in Teilzeit 3 beschäftigt
sind und damit häufig geringere berufliche Entwicklungs‐ und Karriereoptionen haben. Dies zeigt sich auch daran, dass Frauen bei gleichem Arbeitszeitumfang im Schnitt deutlich niedrigere Bruttoarbeitsentgelte erhalten als Männer. Ein wesentlicher Grund dafür ist, dass die Mehrheit der Frauen in den klassischen „Frauenbranchen“ und „‐berufen“ mit sozialen, pädagogischen oder pflegerischen Tätigkeitsbereichen beschäftigt ist. Dort erreichen Frauen nur unterdurchschnittliche Entgelte. In technischen Branchen mit überdurchschnittlichen Einkommen stagnieren die Frauenanteile seit langer Zeit auf niedrigem Niveau oder es findet ein Beschäftigungsabbau statt, wie beispielsweise im Finanz‐ und Versicherungsgewerbe, das sich ebenfalls durch überdurchschnittliche Einkommen auszeichnet.
Ausländische Frauen sind zwar immer noch in geringeren Anteilen als deutsche Frauen in sozialversicherungspflichtige Beschäftigung eingebunden, jedoch wächst ihr Anteil stetig. Die Beschäftigungszunahme findet vor allem in den sogenannten Frauenberufen wie Pflegerin, Erzieherin und Lehrerin statt. Jedoch steigt der Anteil der ausländischen Frauen ebenfalls in Berufen wie Ärztin oder Apothekerin. Der Zuwachs ist bei ausländischen Frauen deutlich schneller als bei Frankfurterinnen mit deutschem Pass. Diese Dienstleistungsberufe im Gesundheits‐ und Sozialwesen sowie der Erziehung scheinen auch für ausländische Frauen die zentralen Zugänge zur sozialversicherungspflichtigen Beschäftigung in Frankfurt am Main zu sein. Darüber hinaus befindet sich ein beträchtlicher Anteil ausländischer Frauen in geringfügig entlohnter Beschäftigung in den gleichen Branchen. Hauptgrund für diese Beschäftigungsverhältnisse sind fehlende formale
Berufsabschlüsse. Allerdings verfügen die Ausländerinnen oft über im Ausland erworbene Berufsabschlüsse, diese sind jedoch in Deutschland (noch) nicht anerkannt.
Der guten Beschäftigungslage vieler Frankfurter Einwohnerinnen steht ein großes Segment an Frauen gegenüber, die arbeitslos sind. Dabei ist anzumerken, dass das Arbeitslosigkeitsrisiko für Frauen in Frankfurt am Main geringer ist als das für Männer. Dies trifft insbesondere für Frauen mit deutschem
Pass zu. Ausländische Frauen sind im Vergleich zu deutschen Frauen jedoch überdurchschnittlich oft arbeitslos und viel häufiger als deutsche Frauen auch im Rechtskreis SGB II 13 verortet. Sie gelten damit als eher arbeitsmarktfern und sind mit einem hohen Risiko von Langzeitarbeitslosigkeit
konfrontiert. Gründe für diefehlenden Zugänge zum Arbeitsmarkt sind bei Frauen keine oder unzureichende (in Deutschland nicht anerkannte) formale berufliche Qualifikationen sowie Probleme bei der Vereinbarkeit von Beschäftigungszeiten und Kinderbetreuung.
Zur Verbesserung der Teilhabe insbesondere von Frauen am Frankfurter Arbeitsmarkt sind Aktivitäten in drei Handlungsbereichen notwendig.
(1) Inner‐ und außerbetriebliche Karriereentwicklung über passfähige eratung, flexible Arbeitszeitmodelle und –bedingungen, einfache Anerkennung von im Ausland erworbenen
Abschlüssen sowie passfähige Betreuungsarrangements für Kinder und zu pflegende Angehörige.
(2) Anerkennung und Erwerb formaler Berufsabschlüsse über passfähige Informationen, ausreichende Qualifizierungsangebote und flexible Kinderbetreuung.
(3) Orientierung in Berufen und Arbeitsmarkt für Mädchen und junge Frauen in Schulen, Hochschulen und über Praktika sowie für ausländische Frauen über Schulen, Kindergärten, Meldebehörden und Arbeitsvermittlung.
Die Handlungsbereiche und Aktivitäten verweisen auf viele Strukturen, Projekte und Ansätze, die es bereits in Frankfurt am Main gibt. Die Ergebnisse der Studie können nun genutzt werden, um zu sondieren, ob diese Strukturen zur Verbesserung der Teilhabe bereits gut ausgerichtet sind, ob noch Nachjustierung notwendig ist oder ob gar Lücken bestehen, die es noch zu füllen gilt.
[...] [Hoffmann] ist es im Sandmann [...] darum zu tun, beide Lesarten, die des Übernatürlichen/Wunderbaren auf der einen Seite und des Natürlichen, in diesem Falle: des dezidiert Psychologischen, auf der anderen, in der Schwebe zu halten. [...] er verfolgt [...] eine Strategie der unsinnlichen Ähnlichkeit, dergestalt dass das Wunderbare mittels einer metaphysisch angereicherten Psychologie als allegorisch lesbar wird.
The present paper focuses on some aspects of the so called wooden language in the german newspaper published in Romania from the pre-revolutionary period, to be exact in the forms of expression of this language identified in the condolences messages on the death of the communist leaders Josef Wissarionowitsch Stalin and Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, which were published in the newspaper Neuer Weg (NW) (1953 respectively 1965). The theoretical point of view hold by the author is that of sociolinguistics and pragmalinguistics. At first, the concept wooden language is defined and its most important structural features and means of utterance are identified, the socio-historical background, that encourages the existence of the analysed phenomenon is also explained. The results of the analysis are presented further: the form of expression of the “wooden” statements, their morpho-syntactic, semantic, pragmatic-stylistic structure. The paper contains some final remarks on general characteristics of the written press.
The present contribution is meant as an approach to the debate mentioned in the heading. It is important to find ways, to make on one side the learning and the cultivation of the German language attractive for the young people and on the other side to regain again the peoples’ conscious, here and there, for the centuries-long German culture and history. Teachers of both sexes as well as the students who are going to become teachers are the future multipliers par excellence. Due to a variety of integral pedagogical and linguistic didactical concepts –meant simultaneously for transmitting information, meeting, exchange and networking – there have to be found innovative ideas, precise proposals have to be worked out, which both also strengthen the social relevance of the local Institutions and German Departments respectively Faculties, which qualify teachers for the German language and providing in this way a contribution to the harmonization of the civil society.
Das Projekt „Film-Sprache-Begegnung“ ist ein interkulturelles Sprachfördercamp, dass in Rumänien (Seligstadt) stattfindet. Über 30 Jugendliche im Alter von 13 bis 16 Jahren drehen innerhalb von zehn Tagen gemeinsam Spielfilme. Die Geschichten dafür entwickeln sie selbst. Sie verfassen Drehbücher und erlernen das Kamerahandwerk, sie arbeiten sich in filmtypische Aufgabenfelder wie Regie, Kamera, Ton, Licht und Schauspiel ein. Sie lernen die Tricks der digitalen Postproduktion kennen und werden am Ende zu richtigen Filmemachern/-innen, die stolz die Premiere ihrer Filme vor einem begeisterten Publikum feiern. Das Ziel des Camps ist aber nicht nur die Produktion von Spielfilmen. Es geht insbesondere darum, dass die Teilnehmer/ -innen Deutsch als Fremdsprache kommunikativ und zweckgebunden sprechen. Die Jugendlichen stammen aus Ländern wie Serbien, Kroatien und Rumänien. Dort erlernen sie überwiegend in der Schule Deutsch als Fremdsprache...
The following article documents a theater project with Romanian and German young people, which took place in April 2013 in Sibiu / Romania and questioned in this example conceptual entities of the concept of culture, in particular approaches to intercultural versus transcultural pedagogy.
The answer to the question – Which can be the best way to teach and to learn to understand foreign people and culture in ethnically, culturally and linguistically homogenous teaching contexts? – is simple: through language teaching and learning. This process is per definitionem the encounter between a culture of origin and a target culture. The process of learning and teaching foreign languages generates the encounter with languages and cultures, which implies on the one hand a comparison of different cultural contexts and on the other hand self-reflection.
Starting from data, which were collected based on a survey, the present contribution attempts to answer the following questions:
1. What is the role of foreign language teachers in ethnically, culturally and linguistically homogenous teaching contexts?
2. To what extent do foreign language teachers and students perceive the intercultural dimensions of foreign language education in such contexts?
Jugendliche aus Serbien, Kroatien, Ungarn und Rumänen produzieren gemeinsam Kurzfilme. Die medienpädagogische Jugendbegegnung bringt im Sommer 2013 jeweils Jugendliche zwischen 14 und 16 Jahren aus Serbien, Kroatien, Ungarn und Rumänien zusammen. Zusammen ist das Schlagwort des Camps in Sombor/Serbien, in welchem die Jugendlichen in Kleingruppen gemeinsam filmische sowie andere mediale Kleinproduktionen planen und durchführen. Dabei soll spielerisch eine Förderung der deutschen Sprache geschehen, welche für die Teilnehmenden die Zweitsprache ist. Im Vordergrund der Jugendbegegnung stehen die gemeinsamen Gruppenerfahrungen der Teilnehmenden, die intensive Sprachförderung und Sprechpraxis sowie die Heranführung an technische und ästhetische Medienarbeit...
This paper deals with German and Serbian idioms which contain the numeral seven (germ. Sieben, serb. sedam) in order to determine and analyse the different types of equivalence that exist between these German and Serbian idiomatic expressions. It is also an aim of this paper to define the semantics of the numeral seven or sedam, as the similarities and differences between German and Serbian provide interesting results. The results of this paper are to the benefit of the students in German studies, but also students who study German as a foreign language.
This contribution examines the cooperation between Ludwigsburg University of Education, the Danube-Swabian Cultural Foundation and to a lesser extent the German Academic Exchange Service with respect to partnerships and projects developed with educational institutions in South-Eastern Europe. This is followed by a critical assessment of the achievements so far with some suggestions for improvements and further developments.
The paper shows that experiential education and modern approaches to teaching German as a foreign language (GFL) share a number of characteristics, suggesting that experiential education ought to be integrated in teacher training programs. Based on the feedback received from participants in the experiential education project organised in autumn 2013 by the department of “Pedagogy for Primary and Secondary Schools” at the Lucian Blaga University, Sibiu, the paper demonstrates not only that important characteristics of experiential education and principles of modern GFL teaching coincide from a theoretical perspective, but also that this confluence can be experienced at an intuitive and practical level. The project is described in detail and recommended as a possible pilot for other networking projects on German-language teacher training in the Danubian regions.
In this paper there is offered an overview on the possibilities of the German teacher training and its importance in Hungary with a special focus on the German nationality in Hungary, which forms an additional area of the German teacher training. The teacher should not only teach namely German (nationality-) language and culture, but also initiate projects that strengthen the minority’s identity. Also the knowledge and skills tought in the German teacher training are discussed divided on areas.
This paper offers an overview of the presence of the german language and culture in Serbia. The focus lies on the region Vojvodina, as it has the greatest significance for the spread of the German language, culture and literature in Serbia, and there German as a foreign language is still strongly represented in schools. At the same time, it presents the status of the German teacher training in Serbia and discusses some perspectives in this domain.
Vergangenheit und Gegenwart der deutschen Spracheinflüsse an der Germanistikabteilung in Osijek
(2014)
The paper describes the influence of German language on the language and literature in Osijek, Croatia and the way these influences are being researched and kept alive at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Osijek. The German language and culture had a strong impact both on the language and the literature of Slawonia. The literary tradition is taught as a course about 18th and 19th ct literature in Slawonia, the linguistic aspect lives through publications and has the potential to be included in courses or to be used for further research.
[...] Halten wir [...] als Arbeitshypothese fest, dass Jean Paul in seinem zweiten bürgerlichen Roman nach dem "Siebenkäs" einerseits den Gedanken der psychischen Doppelgängerschaft fortschreibt, ihm aber andererseits über die Zwillingsmetapher eine neue, hereditäre und generative Dimension verleiht.
Auch wenn das auf den ersten Blick kontraintuitiv erscheint, steht diese Veränderung, wie sich herausstellen wird, für eine größere und größer werdende Unähnlichkeit zwischen den beiden Helden. Der gleitende Wechsel der Metaphern markiert also einen sich schon im "Siebenkäs" abzeichnenden, in den "Flegeljahren" jedoch verstärkt fortgesetzten Entfremdungsprozess der für
die bürgerlichen Romane konstitutiven Doppel-Protagonisten.
Prämissen für die Vermittlung interkultureller Kompetenzen im studienbegleitenden DaF-Unterricht
(2014)
Language teaching alone is not sufficient in order to communicate successfully in the foreign language. Even with the acquisition of one’s native language, one does not learn just vocabulary, grammar, reading, writing, speaking and listening. Apart from all that one learns how to identify and to practice cultural patterns. Here, the learning and teaching process is accompanied by another component: intercultural communication and the acquisition of intercultural competences. These teach the lerner to understand first and foremost their own cultural background in order for them to be able to change perspective and look at and understand the cultural background of the target language. Teaching must be centered on the learner, and the foreign language is not taught „in general“, but with regard to the learners’ culture of origin.
This study aims to analysing the exclusively phraseological occurrency of some adjectives taken from German. This phenomenon reffers to the isolation of words and lexical forms out of linguistical and extralinguistical causes, in phraseological sintagmas. Firstly, we will briefly present the main directions in the research of this isolated lexemes. Then, we will analyse the linguistical features specific to these linguistical facts, using as exemples some of the German adjectives.
The Transylvanian-Saxon Dictionary (SSWB) documents the general thesaurus of the Transylvanian Saxons by means of meaningful idiomatic samples. In addition there are certified documents of Transylvanian sources of the German language from the mid 13th to mid 10th century, which are of relevance for the idiomatic influence upon the literary German written language in Transylvania or the history of the German language. From this point of view some lexemes are absorbed into the dictionary, which refer to established legal agreements and mandatory services pertaining to a specific time period. The case studies in the following article are documented sources, extracted from the SSWB and the Transylvanian vernacular literature.
Banater Schnitten, Pariser Stangen, Russische Elegante : zur Reichweite siebenbürgischer Kochrezepte
(2014)
The present paper analyses the gastronomic terms with geographical components, which appear especially in the German cooking books, characteristic for the 19th and 20th century from Transylvania. The linguistic analysis (phonology, morpho-syntax, and semantics) and the pragmatics of these terms help us to reflect the economic, historical and cultural realities of those times; the interethnic interferences from the gastronomic field are as profound as those from the cultural and linguistic field are.
The following article analys the perception of th famous character Till Eulenspiegel (Howleglas) in Romania, mostly focusing on „Întâmplãrile ºi faptele de pominã ale nãzdrãvanului Til Buhoglindã”, retold by Al. Alexianu. His fame was currently brought by the numerous translations, in 280 languages. The first complete Romanian translation was published in 1840, in Braºov. The book represented a major success towards the Romanian audience, following other editions being published (1848, 1856, 1858, etc.). The 43 tales chosen in the 1970s edition are focused on Till Eulenspiegels-character (translated in Romanian as Til Buhoglindã), revealing his complex personality, as well as his amuzing and educational side.
Der Beitrag widmet sich einem ausgewählten Bereich öffentlicher Pressesprache, wobei strukturelle, semantische und pragmatische Besonderheiten der sogenannten hölzernen Sprache in der deutschsprachigen Zeitung Neuer Weg (NW) aus Rumänien exemplarisch am Beispiel von Beileidstelegrammen zum Ableben der kommunistischen Führer Josef Wissarionowitsch Stalin und Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej (1953 bzw.1965) erfasst werden sollen. Mit der Darstellung von Formulierungspräferenzen in einer ausgewählten Textsorte der öffentlichen schriftlichen Kommunikationspraxis und der Analyse dieses soziokulturell geprägten Sprachgebrauchs hinaus sollen auch die sozial-historischen Bedingungen, die für das Auftauchen der Ausdrucksformen der hölzernen Sprache förderlich waren, eruiert werden.
Mathilde Roth belongs to a small group of Transylvanian ladies who, by the end of the 19th century, benefitted by the relative opening of the Transylvanian Saxon society, which permitted women to embrace a profession. The gifted young woman followed her vocation and studied for several years painting in Vienna and Munich, being in the aftermath active for almost a decade in her native city, Sibiu/Hermannstadt, where she exhibited paintings, organized Christmas exhibitions and gave art lessons. After her marriage, Mathilde left Transylvania in 1910 and settled in Zurich. Being also a gifted writer, she contributed travel reports to different periodicals. The paper aims at presenting the almost forgotten artist both, as a painter and as a writer.
„[I]m Fegefeuer von Diktaturen“. Die Darstellung arabischer Diktaturen im Prosawerk von Abbas Khider
(2014)
This article deals with the works of the Iraqi writer Abbas Khider who lives in Germany. His works revolve around a major topic, namely, the life of the ordinary Arab citizen under dictatorship. In all Arab countries, dictatorship has been able to set up and update a new cultural fashion based on oppression and persecution, looking man down and depriving him of his freedom.
Our writer has suffered so much from dictatorship which pushed him to live in delinquency from one country to the other. Building on this, the article is attempting through linking the author’s autobiography to the major events and characters of his works to point to the nature of the Arab dictatorship dominating in the Arab world before the Arab Spring which would contribute to understanding the works of Khider and identify their real content.
The aim of the present paper is to show how intertextuality and poetological reflection are interrelated in Josef Winkler’s later works (starting with the short novel Natura morta published in 2001). After a short presentation of the author, the main motifs of his novels and his specific prose style which draws on mannerist tropes in order to distance itself from mimetic, realistic narrative, the paper offers a brief overview of the different types of intertextuality Winkler makes use of in his writing. The last part of the paper focuses on a short chapter from the novel Leichnam, seine Familie belauernd (2003), analyzing the intertextual references to Jean Genet in both their (auto)biographical and narratological dimension.
The title Grenzfall of this crime novel is based on a pun because it means in German both “borderline case” and “border incident”. The novel refers to an incident at the border between Poland and Germany, that really happened in 1992, when two Roma from Romania were shot in strange circumstances. Kröger continues in her fiction the film script that she had written for the documentary Revision, produced in 2012, 10 years after the incident. The crime novel tries to reveal the causes that led to the violent death of the two, to disclose why German police investigations were so superficial, to present what effects all this had on the families of the two dead men, and what regional and ethnic stereotypes dominate the thinking of those involved in the action.
The paper aims at the discussion of some major aspects of postmodern theatre from the vantage point of actual staging and performing. Theatre should be regarded as the result of varied cross-cultural, intermedial and intertextual elements merged into a hybrid art form. The paper illustrates my statements by referring to the theatrical activity of the German language players known as DUO BASTET from Braºov and some of their adaptations.
The research objective of the present article is the book Der heilige Teufel [The Holy Devil], written in the field of cultural history by the Romanian German language author Renë Fülöp Miller, published in 1927 and very well received at the time. Important contemporary voices, for instance Th. Mann, ranked it next to fictional works. Taking into consideration postmodern viewpoints, according to which reality and fiction have become impossible to distinguish and interchangeable, it may be concluded that Miller’s work, in spite of its cultural-historical content, is a historical narrative, its style being subordinated to „documentary fiction”. The depiction of reality is a possible one; Russia’s image during Rasputin’s time is a probable one.
The present paper deals with inter- and hypertextual relations between two unpublished elegies of the Romanian poet of German origin Anemone Latzina and R M. Rilke’s Duino Elegies. The research aims at uncovering the importance of Rilke as an author of the German Modernity in times of dictatorship, as Rilke’s texts provided trust, hope, courage and strength. So the reception of the German poetry of the Modernity is to be understood both as individual as well as generational.
Verschiedentlich ist bemerkt worden, dass Dürrenmatts "Der Richter und sein Henker" nicht als Kriminal-, sondern als ein Antikriminalroman zu lesen sei. Die Differenz zwischen den beiden Gattungen sei, so der kleinste gemeinsame Nenner der verschiedenen Argumentationen, darin zu sehen, dass Kommissar Bärlach im Fall des getöteten Polizisten Schmied nicht nur ermittle, sondern aktiv in den Fall eingreife. [...]
Im Folgenden soll plausibel gemacht werden, dass Bärlachs metonymische Ausweitung seiner Ermittlungsarbeit zum metaphysischen Richter seiner besonderen kriminalistischen Ausrichtung geschuldet ist. Um diese zu rekonstruieren, bedarf es jedoch einer Kontrastierung durch die methodischen Ansatze, von denen er sich absetzt.
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Eugen CHRIST(Stuttgart): Jugendnetzwerk „Deutsch im Donauraum“ – eine Überlegung (wert) (11)
Peter DINES (PH Ludwigsburg): Die Kooperation der PH Ludwigsburg mit ihren Partnern im Donau-Raum – Projekte, Erfahrungen, Perspektiven (24)
Robert KOVAC /Sanja NINKOVIC (Novi Sad): Deutsche Sprache und Kultur und Deutschlehrerausbildung in Serbien (37)
Stephanie JUG/Sanja CIMER (Osijek): Vergangenheit und Gegenwart der deutschen Spracheinflüsse an der Germanistikabteilung in Osijek (50)
Liana Regina IUNESCH (Hermannstadt/Sibiu): Erlebnispädagogik als handlungsorientierter und interdisziplinärer Deutschunterricht (66)
Gabor FRANK (Pécs/Fünfkirchen): Deutschlehrerausbildung in Ungarn (87)
Ellen TICHY (Sibiu/Hermannstadt): Nimm Zwei: Zwei Kulturen – eine Heimat! Eine transkulturelle Begegnung zwischen rumänischen und deutschen Jugendlichen (96)
Florentina ALEXANDRU (Bukarest): Die interkulturelle Dimension des Fremdsprachenunterrichts in einem sprachlich-kulturell homogenen Kontext (109)
Adriana DĂNILĂ (Bukarest): Einige Aspekte der hölzernen Sprache in der deutschsprachigen Presse aus Rumänien in den 1950er und 1960er Jahren (138)
Sanja NINKOVIC / Robert KOVAC (Novi Sad): Ein interlingualer Vergleich von Phraseologismen in Numeralien (158)
Anlage:
Film, Sprache, Begegnung (Holdorf/Maurer PH Ludwigsburg):Film – Sprache – Begegnung. Ein interkulturelles medienpädagogisches Sprachfördersommercamp in Rumänien (173)
Zirkuspädagogik:„Warum der ganze Zirkus?“ (189)
Mediencamp: Medienpädagogische Jugendbegegnung in Sombor. Sprache – Medien – Interkulturalität: 13.- 22.August 2013 (199)
One can deal with aspects of language use from different perspectives (sociologically, pragmatically, psycho-linguistically etc.). The present article discusses stylistic markedness in different selected phrasemes whereby the following question is subject to investigation: do phrasemes as complex signs of secondary nomination show specific properties which, in contrast to simple lexemes, make them predisposed to stylistically marked use?
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I. Literaturwissenschaft und Landeskunde
Joachim WITTSTOCK (Sibiu/Hermannstadt): Nach Siebenbürgen verschlagen? Vorspiegelung, realistische Sicht und Selbsttäuschung in Adolf Meschendörfers Romandebüt „Lenore“ (13)
Delia COTARLEA (Brasov/Kronstand): Anemone Latzinas Tagebucheinträge und die Literatur der Moderne. Inter- und hypertextuelle Bezüge zu R. M. Filkes Duineser Elegien (25)
Maria SASS (Sibiu/Hermannstadt): Die Fiktion des Faktischen. Geschichte als Literatur, exemplarisch dargestellt am Werk des rumäniendeutschen Autors Rene Fülöp Miller Der heilige Teufel (42)
Carmen Elisabeth PUCHIANU (Brasov/Kronstadt): Theater – eine Sache multipler Interrelationen (64)
Sunhild GALTER (Hermannstadt/Sibiu): Grenzfall von Merle Kröger – (auch) ein interkultureller Grenzfall (82)
Maria IROD (Bukarest): Poetologische Reflexion und Intertextualität in der neueren Prosa von Josef Winkler (95)
Mohamed TABASSI (Gabes/Südtunesien): „[I]m Fegefeuer von Diktaturen“. Die Darstellung arabischer Diktaturen im Prosawerk von Abbas Khider (127)
Gudrun-Liane Ittu (Sibiu/Hermannstadt): Mathilde Berner-Roth (1873-1934), eine schreibende Malerin (164)
Adriana DĂNILĂ (Bukarest): Einige Aspekte der hölzernen Sprache in der deutschsprachigen Presse aus Rumänien in den 1950er und 1960er Jahren (180)
Cristina DOGARU (Bukarest): Die Rezeption der Eulenspiegel-Figur im rumänischen Sprachraum (197)
II: Sprachwissenschaft
Adriana-Lucia NISTOR (IASSY): Banater Schnitten, Pariser Stangen, Russische Elegante. Zur Reichweite siebenbürgischer Kochrezepte (219)
Sigrid HALDEWANG (Sibiu/Hermannstadt): In siebenbürgischen Urkunden und im Siebenbürgisch-Sächsischen belegte Lexeme, die sich auf festgelegte rechtliche Vereinbarungen und auf Pflichtleistungen beziehen, die einem bestimmten Zeitraum zuzuordnen sind (231)
Doris SAVA (Sibiu/Hermannstadt): Zum Stilwert von Phraseologismen (251)
Mihai CRUDU (Suceava): Zur phraseologischen Gebundenheit der Lexeme. Eine exemplarische Analyse am Beispiel deutscher Adjektive (271)
Ana KARLSTEDT (Bukarest): Prämissen für die Vermittlung interkultureller Kompetenzen im studienbegleitenden DaF Unterricht (285)
III. Bücherschau
Mihai CRUDU: Rezension (308)
„Leonore”, the debut novel of the writer Adolf Meschendörfer (1877-1963), is rightly considered to be proof of the modern Transylvanian spirit at the beginning of the XXth century. The novel had been released during the first year of publication (1907/08) of the periodical edited by the author himself, “Die Karpathen“, and as a volume in 1920, being repeatedly republished during the course of the century both in German and in Romanian translation. The novelty of this literary work consists in the detached vision concerning the traditionalist mentality with its obsolete conventionalism and in adopting an unusual stylistic register as compared to national prose types, Meschendörfer relying on dynamism and laconic depiction. However, the deficiencies specific to a beginner are evident, as observed by the author’s contemporaries, involving an excessive reliance on older and newer literary models, inconsistencies of the fiction and decreases concerning adequate expression.
Vorwort (9)
I. Literaturwissenschaft und Landeskunde
Roxana NUBERT/Ana-Maria DASCALU ROMITAN (Temeswar/Bukarest): Das Bild der Diktatur in Herta Müllers Roman Herztier – mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der sprachlichen Mittel (13)
Markus FISCHER (Bukarest): „Ich ist ein anderer“. Selbst- und Fremdbilder in Max Frischs roman Stiller (33)
Alexander RUBEL (Iassy): „Gegen Inder“. Die Darstellung des Gegners in Ernst Jüngers „In Stahlgewittern“ (45)
Carmen Elisabeth PUCHIANU (Brasov/Kronstadt): Fremd- und Selbstdarstellung in der Inszenierung „Pflegefall“ von C. E. Puchianu und R.G. Elekes (83)
Sunhild GALTER (Hermannstadt/Sibiu): Der Andere als notwendiges Gegenüber im Roman Der Mann schläft von Sibylle Berg (97)
Joachim WITTSTOCK (Sibiu/Hermannstadt): Im Geflecht der Identitäten. Kulturgeschichtliches, dargestellt am Beispiel von János Bolyai (111)
Alexandra CHIRIAC (Iassy): Der siebenbürgische „Bertoldo“ am Ende des 18. Jahrhunderts. Die Rolle des kulturellen Anderen für die sprachliche und literarische Entwicklung des aufgeklärten Siebenbürgens (124)
II: Sprachwissenschaft
Doris SAVA (Sibiu/Hermannstadt): Linguistik auf Abwegen: Nachdenken über Irrtümer, die aus wissenschaftlicher und sprachpraktischer Sicht nicht ignoriert werden dürfen (149)
Adriana-Lucia NISTOR (IASSY): Das Bild des Anderen in den Straßennamen von Mühlbach. Siculorumgasse, Griechengasse, Opricestengasse, Str. Saxonii Noi (169)
Sigrid HALDEWANG (Sibiu/Hermannstadt): Ein Einblick in die Welt der kleinen Lebewesen mit Flügeln, der siebenbürgisch-sächsischen Vogelwelt. Zu den Eulenarten – Eigenbezeichnungen neben entlehnten Bezeichnungen aus den Nachbarsprachen (184)
Adriana DĂNILĂ (Bukarest): Die Darstellung der Machtverhältnisse in dem politischen Diskurs (Das Beispiel der zum Tod des damaligen Präsidenten der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik, Wilhelm Pieck, gehaltenen politisierten Gedenkreden (205)
Ana KARLSTEDT (Bukarest): Das Bild des Anderen in der interkulturellen Pädagogik (222)
Iulia ZUP (Iassy): Die Übersetzungen des Habsburger Allgemeinen Bürgerlichen Gesetzbuchs ins Rumänische (240)
III. Bücherschau
Maria SASS: Die Wege sind zwei, aber das Ideal ist immer nur Eines (259)
Doris SAVA: Die morphematische Struktur der Nominalgruppe im
Deutschen (264)
Wer nicht nur die Tag-, sondern auch die Nachtseite des menschlichen Seelenlebens beschreiben möchte, so könnte die Konsequenz aus dem Vergleich der beiden Texte Hoffmanns lauten, muss sich die, der Zigeunerin zugeschriebene, "schmutzige" Kraft der Natur zu eigen machen. Umgekehrt resultiert daraus, dass sich in dieser schmutzigen Kraft, über welche die Zigeunerin verfügt, Potenzial von allerhöchstem literarischen Adel verbirgt. Zigeunerromantik eben.
PH Lesenswert : Online-Magazin des Zentrums für Literaturdidaktik Kinder Jugend Medien ; Nr. 2/2014
(2014)
PH Lesenswert : Online-Magazin des Zentrums für Literaturdidaktik Kinder Jugend Medien ; Nr. 1/2014
(2014)
Das Thema des Monologs ist das Schreiben und Sprechen als
"närrische Sache". Ich beginne meine Lektüre, indem ich den Begriff wörtlich nehme: Ein Narr ist, in der Psychologie der Zeit, jemand, der an Melancholie leidet, dessen Verstand bzw. Vernunft jedoch nicht vollständig, sondern nur teilweise angegriffen ist. [...] Die Diagnose der Narrheit gilt auch [...] für denjenigen, der sich in Novalis' Augen der Sprache zuwendet. Auch er wird zum Narren oder Partialwahnsinnigen, der sowohl vernünftig als auch ganz und gar unvernünftig sprechen kann. Die Krankheit liegt aber, und das stellt eine Differenz gegenüber der Psychologie der Zeit dar, nicht im Sprechenden, zumindest nicht in ihm allein, sondern in der Sprache. Sie selbst ist es, welche die "närrische Sache" ausmacht.
Säkularisierung und die Souveränität der Moderne. Ein Kommentar zur Agamben-Lektüre Jürgen Mohns
(2014)
As one of the foremost scientists of the time, the Zurich-born botanist Hans Schinz travelled throughout the colony of German South-West Africa, now known as Namibia, from 1884 to 1886. During his expeditions, which covered the length and breadth of the country, he was an enthusiastic collector of many botanical, ethnographical, zoological and mineral samples. He described his experiences in vivid detail in letters to his family and colleagues in Zurich and Berlin. The extensive collections, with which he returned to Switzerland, and his subsequent research fostered his rapid career progression: in 1893 Hans Schinz became the director of the Zurich Botanical Gardens and in 1895 the Professor of Systematic Botany at the University of Zurich.
Africa in narratives
(2014)
Africa in Narratives illuminates or proves, against the backdrop of attitudes toward nations deemed 'ethnic' or 'minorities', that literature in Africa can live up to the challenge of aesthetic imagination to form an active, refreshing part of world cultural discourse. African countries have evolved imaginatively beyond their present ephemeral stages of social and political turmoil not to talk of intellectual imitations of western thought, nation literatures should be subject to the imperative of a continental cooperation.
This book addresses itself to mobilisation and involvement of rural people in development projects. It describes an imperfect but, nonetheless, exciting and thought-provoking exercise that drew social science researchers and students from four public universities in Kenya into an experiment in participatory research, community education and development in two locations. The experiment was grounded on the assumptions that the people of Kenya are a primary resource and that given proper roles and contribution of planners, researchers and programme implementers, self-sustainable development can become a reality. The contributors of this book have focused on the potential of the university to facilitate participation of the people in development. They have given specific suggestions on how this might be accomplished.
Conviviality in Bellville: An Ethnography of Space, Place, Mobility and Being in Urban South Africa
(2014)
This book provides insight into the experiences of mobility and migration in contemporary South Africa, contributing to a field of literature about multiculturalism and urban public space in globalizing cities. It takes into consideration the greater international political and local socio-economic factors that drive migration, relationships and conviviality, and how they are intertwined in the everyday narrative of 'insiders' and 'outsiders'. The Bellville central business district demonstrates the realities of interconnected local and global hierarchies of citizenship and belonging and how they emerge in a world of accelerated mobility. The book further demonstrates how the emergence of conviviality in everyday public life represents a critical field for contemplating contemporary notions of human rights, citizenship and belonging.
African land rights systems
(2014)
This book, from ethical, interdisciplinary, and African perspectives, unveils the root causes of the increasing land disputes. Its significance lies upon the effort of presenting a broad overview founded upon a critical analysis of the existing land-related disputes. It is a perspective that attempts to evaluate the renewed interest in evolving theories of land rights by raising questions that can help us to understand better differences underlying land ownership systems, conflict between customary and statutory land rights systems, and the politics of land reform. Other dimensions explored in the book include the market influence on land-grabbing and challenges accompanying trends of migration, resettlement, and integration. The methodology applied in the study provides a perspective that raises questions intended to identify areas of contention, dispute, and conflict. The study, which could also be categorized as a critical assessment of the African land rights systems, is intended to be a resource for scholars, activists, and organizations working to resolve land-related disputes.
Prevalent poverty and related problems in the East African region call for substantial action from various stakeholders, including social workers. This book, based on comprehensive empirical research, portrays an emerging yet powerful profession that has a significant role to play in the endeavour towards social development, social justice, human rights and gender equality. The book is the first of its kind to provide first-hand theoretical and empirical evidence about social work in East Africa.
The Wish
(2014)
Mria is a good student who excels at science and math, she dreams of skyscrapers and one day training to be an engineer. However, her father has different ideas, he would rather see her become a lawyer, believing that science is not a suitable subject for girls to study. With the support of her best friend Sipe and teachers at schools, Mria tries to ?nd a way to show her father her talents and importance of following her dreams. Mwamgwirani J. Mwakimatu has crafted memorable characters with real-life dilemmas in this touching and entertaining, award-winning novel. Young readers and adults alike will enjoy this tale which shows the importance of following your dreams and believing in yourself.
Bakari and Omari live on the island of Zanzibar and are the best of friends. It is the beginning of a long holiday and they are excited about what adventures are in store. Bakaris beloved grandmother comes to visit the family, bringing with her many gifts including a new friend for the boys! One day while exploring the boys discover hidden treasure. The boys, nicknamed The Detectives of Shangani, embark on a quest to discover the secrets of what they have found. They travel around the Spice Islands and meet strange characters, all to discover the mystery of the lost rubies! Nahida Esmail has crafted an exciting adventure tale with memorable characters. Young readers and adults alike, will enjoy this award-winning novel and the mysteries they uncover!
In Growing up with Tanzania. Karim Hirji, a renowned Professor of Medical Statistics and Fellow of the Tanzania Academy of Science, presents a multi-faceted, evocative portrait of his joyous but conflicted passage to adulthood during colonial and early-Uhuru Tanzania. His smooth style engages the reader with absorbing true tales, cultural currents, critical commentary and progressive possibilities. By vibrantly contrasting the hope-filled sixties with the cynical modern era, he also lays bare the paradoxes of personal life and society, past and present.
The potential for using revenues from extractive resources for inclusive growth in Africa is tremendous. However, the realisation of the transformative role that extractive industries could play in sustainable development has been elusive in most African countries. Extractive industries in most of these countries are plagued with numerous conflicts, some with serious casualties over the control, distribution, management and utilisation of the resources and revenues from extractive operations. Collaborative Governance in Extractive Industries in Africa presents the critical challenges facing extractive industries from different contexts, countries, sectors and settings. It features chapters with diverse angle of interest and analytical tools applied in examining the critical issues related particularly to mining and petroleum development in Africa. The contributors to this book have extensive academic and professional experience in policy research in the mining, oil and gas sectors in Africa and other regions. The book addresses the current gap in knowledge about appropriate governance regimes that could create the forum where the divergent interests and positions of various stakeholders of extractive resources and revenues could be handled - without any of them resorting to deadly conflicts. It presents the functionality of collaborative governance in enhancing for example, transparency, accountability, and equitable distribution of extractive revenues. Governance practitioners, policy- and decision makers could use the structures, components and procedures discussed in this book to develop training manuals, governance criteria and indicators for measuring and managing collaborative governance regime at the national and local levels. They will also find useful information about some of the critical elements that should guide the strategic implementation of the collaborative process.
Chronic non-communicable diseases (NCDs) such as hypertension, stroke, diabetes and cancers, are major causes of disability and death in Ghana. NCDs are not only public health problems. They are also developmental problems, because the rising prevalence of long-term chronic conditions has major social and financial implications for affected individuals, families, healthcare providers and the government. This University of Ghana Readers volume from the Regional Institute for Population Studies presents social and medical science research on Ghana's NCD burden. The body of multidisciplinary research spans the last fifty years and offers important insights on NCD prevalence and experience as well as cultural, health systems and policy responses. This volume will be an essential resource for researchers and students in the health sciences, healthcare providers, health policymakers, and lay individuals with an interest in Ghana's contemporary public health challenges.
This collection of essays on archaeology and heritage studies is authored by local and expatriate scholars who are either past or current practitioners in archaeological work in Ghana. They are from Ghana, UK, US and Canada. The subject matter covered includes the history and evolution of the discipline in Ghana; the method and theory or 'how to do it' in archaeology, field research reports, and syntheses on findings from past and recent investigations. The eclectic or multidisciplinary strategy has been the research vogue in Ghanaian archaeology recently, and this is reflected in the various chapters. The essays engage with current theoretical trends in global archaeology and also focus on the role and status of archaeology as a discipline in Ghanaian society today. Archaeology is a relatively 'novel' subject to many in Ghana. This Reader will, therefore, be a huge asset to local students and experts alike. Foreign scholars will also find it very useful.
This Reader is about the changing trends in mental health care and research in Ghana. The book includes a brief history of the department and Mental Health Care in Ghana through the eyes of professionals who have lived this history. There is also a revised situation analysis of mental health services and legislation from 2005. These are followed by three main sections on Conceptualization of Mental Illness (depression, religion and illness, autism, substance use disorders and schizophrenia), Mental Health Practice in a teaching hospital setting (referrals to Korle-Bu, how psychiatric illnesses manifest, how people's lives are affected and what skill sets and resources are available for dealing with them) and finally the Department's focus on research includes the Mental Health Information System, Sickle Cell Disease, Medical Ethics, and Liaison Psychiatry. In the concluding paragraph, read about the way forward in mental health care and research.
The purpose of this book is to show that the possession cult of Vimbuza presents itself as an oral genre which is part and parcel of African Oral Literature. The ethnolinguistic study which we undertake will permit us to catch a glimpse of its whole complexity. The analysis has a bearing on four principal aspects. Historical developments: a certain number of facts concerning the birth of possession among the Tumbuka; possession: the study attempts to show how the cult articulates itself with its beliefs and the use of divination; the social role: analysis of social functions; the style: an analysis of the linguistic procedures which are characteristic of Vimbuza songs. The presence of rhetorical figures would confirm that we are talking about an oral literary genre.
Tumbuka folktales are on the verge of extinction. If not recorded now, the loss would not only be the amusement they provide but chiefly lessons inherent. On the surface, they are simple narratives, however, subtly they evoke serious moral lessons that are very applicable to our everyday life today. This folklore collection is based on field research conducted by the authors in Citumbuka speaking areas of Mzimba and Rumphi districts in Nothern Malawi.
This is a book about the Tonga of Northern Malawi, sometimes called the Lakeshore Tonga to distinguish them from other ethnic groups with the same name further west in Central Africa. The Lakeshore Tonga were the first ethnic group to identify themselves with the Christian faith. The purpose of the research was to investigate the use of Tonga myths, folktales, proverbs and rituals for their role in Moral Education and assess and evaluate their contribution towards value formation for the youth. Each chapter in the book aims to discuss some ideas in the anthropology of religion and to illustrate them with specific case studies formed primarily through conversation with friends, both young and old, over some years.
Customary Law Ascertained Volume 2 is the second of a three volume series in which traditional authorities in Namibia present the customary laws of their communities. It contains the laws of the Bakgalagari, the Batswana ba Namibia and the Damara communities. The recognised traditional authorities in Namibia are expected to ascertain the customary law applicable in their respective communities and to note the most important aspects of the laws in written form. The Ministry of Regional and Local Government, Housing and Rural Development, and the Council of Traditional Leaders therefore initiated the ascertainment of customary law. The ascertainment project is housed in the Human Rights and Documentation Centre of the University of Namibia. The former Dean of the Faculty of Law of the University of Namibia, Professor Manfred O. Hinz, has directed the project since its inception.
The primary objective of What on Earth is a Ruling Party in a Multiparty Democracy? is to provoke thought and thereby stimulate debate. To this end, provocatively, this collection of topical issues ranges from 'The place of the miniskirt in sociocultural development' to 'Which citizen in Zambia should not take part in (partisan) politics?' The Author, Mubanga E Kashoki, is a Professor of African Languages at the institute of Economic and Social Research in the University of Zambia.
Women in Islam explores the complexities of gender relations in Muslim communities in the Horn of Africa and beyond, engaging critically with the social, political and cultural challenges associated with the intersection of Islam and gender. With an eclectic selection of essays, academic papers, opinion pieces and personal narratives punctuated with poetry and art, the journal seeks to spark creative and forward-looking discussions on how to effectively improve the status of women in Muslim societies. Women in Islam is published annually by SIHA, the Strategic Initiative for Women in the Horn of Africa. Issue One of Women in Islam includes investigations of social issues, profiles of inspiring women, book and film reviews, and opinion pieces. The theme of the dossier, 'Unveiling Hijab', includes a selection of in-depth articles on the hijab and the practice of veiling. Highlights include an introduction to the life and work of Amina Wadud, a discussion of masculinity and fatherhood in a Muslim context, and reflections on what it means to be a 'moderate' Muslim today.
The birth of a new nation is an exciting time. Mick Bond spent the years 1962-73 as a District Officer and a District Commissioner, actively participating in the demise of the colonial regime and then as a civil servant in independent Zambia. This detailed account of his life and work includes the daily routine of a colonial officer, his personal experiences of the 1964 Lumpa conflict and his involvement in the elections of 1962, 1964, and 1968.
Ask the Stars
(2014)
In Ask the Stars, Titus Mutuiria remembers how at the age of ten he seemed to lead a normal life of sibling rivalry with Njorua, Antonnina and Sarah until some events from their past threaten to rewrite his life. Njorua and Antonnina learn that Mutumia Mutana, the mother they have always known is not their biological mother while Titus learns that Muthuri Mukaru is not the biological father of himself and Sarah. What follows is a gripping story of jealousy, fear, loyalty, friendship and love as the siblings grow and confront an array of challenges as the family forge solutions to the troubles that beset them. The story of young love between Titus and Joan and the actions of a lurking rapist in the village bring added dimensions to the story, showing that things are not always what they seem. Eventually, the teenagers and their parents must nurture a love that strengthens their family and that also brings sanity to the village.
Was Nyakeera my Father
(2014)
Eavesdropping on his parents, James Kirika, a fifteen-year-old teenager, hears a conversation that suggests that he is not the biological son of the man he calls 'Father'. This realisation sends him into a tortured search for the man who brought him into this world. Things get complicated when the chief source of information, his old and hallucinating grandmother, gives him a fuzzy lead. Does he ever find out the truth?
Fifty Years of Kiswahili in Kenya is a collection of articles that were presented at an international Kiswahili conference organized by the National Kiswahili Association (CHAKITA) Kenya in 2013, which was held at the Catholic University of Eastern Africa (CUEA). A few articles are however from a similar conference held in 2012 at Kenyatta University. The book exemplifies the importance of the Kiswahili language in various sectors of society. Therefore, within this book you will find articles that focus on the teaching of the Kiswahili language; Kiswahili as a tool for national economic development; the contribution of Kiswahili to national cohesion and integration; Kiswahili research in language and literature; Kiswahili and portrayal of women; children's literature in Kiswahili; and how Sheng affects Kiswahili. In short, the articles herein are a testimony of how Kiswahili has developed in the last fifty years in Kenya. This is a very important book for Kiswahili students and teachers. It is also an invaluable text for Kiswahili enthusiasts and all those who recognize its contribution to society.
God was African
(2014)
When Kendem, a varsity instructor, returns to his native Lewoh countryside where he spent his childhood, he is seeking relief from the complexity of human civilization after attending the Fulbright Institute in the United States. Instead, he is confronted with two seething issues: how to reveal to his sick and troubled mother the situation in which he finds his elder brother, the successor of Mbe Tanju-Ngong's household, who travelled to the United States many years before and had never returned and the dispute over Fuo Beyano's funeral which is tearing the land apart, whether the deceased village chief, should be given a Christian burial or he should, according to the age-old tradition of Lewoh people, go through a ritual to enable him return and continue ruling his people.
Before the Rainbow
(2014)
Emmanuel Fru Doh, a native of Cameroon, holds a Ph.D. from the University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria. He taught at the University of Yaounde (E.N.S. Bambili) for almost a decade-the 90s-before leaving for the US. He then had a brief stint as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Minnesota before settling into the Department of English at Century, a College within the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities (MnSCU) System. Poet, novelist, social and literary critic, Emmanuel Fru Doh is the author of Nomads: The Memoir of a Southern Cameroonian.
In the 1980s, the University of Cape Town s social anthropology department was predominantly oriented by an expos style of critical scholarship. The enemy was the apartheid state, the ethical imperative was clear and a combative metaphor for doing research motivated the department. Andrew David Spiegel, known affectionately as Mugsy by his students and colleagues, has been a central, if understated, figure of this history and helped to frame the theoretical charge of a generation of students looking to counter apartheid from inside . In a series of interviews between the senior professor and one of his students Jessica Dickson Spiegel offers a unique perspective from the centre of anthropology s recent history in South Africa.
On March 8, 2007, one of Cameroon's foremost scholars died in a ghastly traffic accident barely hours after launching his most forthright and acerbic collection of poems: Disgrace: Autobiographical Narcissus. Dr. Bate Besong was a social activist, a critic, troubadour, and playwright; an avant-garde, steeped in the tradition of the absurd, who fought against the corrupt system of governance that transmuted Cameroonians into a comatose and apathetic citizenry neutered by fear engendered by the workings of an existing Gestapo. For the first time, Emmanuel Fru Doh has gone beyond an analysis of Besong's plays into giving an in-depth appraisal of his poems which have, for a long time, held back critics because of their opacity. Doh examines each of Besong's plays and collections of poems in separate sections and succeeds in setting Besong's work in perspective - mindful of their concerns and
Divining the Future of Africa : Healing the Wounds, Restoring Dignity and Fostering Development
(2014)
This book explores the relationship between Africa, the West and China. It notes that while Africa is a continent of diverse cultures, raw materials, human resource, indigenous knowledges, and above all the biggest recipient of foreign aid globally, it continues to lag behind all regions of the world in terms of socio-economic development. The book grapples with the important question on why this has been the case. It provides crucial critical insights on how Africa's situation could be reversed and the tapestry of its socio-economic problems eased. The book draws a link between culture, globalisation and socio-economic development, breaking new grounds in the discourse on development in post-colonial Africa. This is an incisive clarion call to bypass the outlandish claims and sterile discussions on the parodying of Africa by Euro-centric scholars. It is a contribution on the imperative to re-think the future of development in Africa. It makes a compelling argument by self-reliant development processes in which Africans reclaim their voice, independence and autonomy unapologetically. The book provides some grist for the mills of policy makers, institutional planners, practitioners and students of anthropology, political studies, sociology, economic history, local governance, cultural economics, and gender, development, African, heritage and international studies.
The Rising Sun and Boma
(2014)
The Rising Sun and Boma interrogate social evils such as moral decadence, corruption, and greed that are rife in the Cameroonian society. In both plays, Ipah, Paddy, Dinna, and Boma, for example, exemplify how waywardness and avarice can subvert moral integrity. At the same time, the plays problematise the intersection of tradition and modernity, articulating the tension inherent in both visions of life. Although the moral landscape of the drama appears sordid, characters like Abu Ipah and Joseph enkindle hope. Initially performed seventeen years ago, the plays are still as poignant as they are didactic and hilarious as they are refreshing. The characters are credible and compelling partly because of the felicitous language that is anchored in the local imagery.
From his first research there in 1959 until shortly before his death in 2010, Victor Le Vine was a major Cameroon scholar. What he wrote during Cameroon's first half-century of independence carries implications for the years ahead. This volume introduces and presents eight of his short writings, 1961-2007, five never previously published. They demonstrate his mastery of the intricacies and the sweep of the country's governance history, and both his own and Cameroon's importance for African Studies at large.
Searching for Bate Besong
(2014)
The future of the country in Searching for Bate Besong is compromised by irresponsible leadership, falsehoods, blind tyranny, waste, and lawlessness. Visionaries like Dockinta (a literary incarnation of Bate Besong, one of Cameroon's most fiery and revolutionary authors) who try to question or expose the status-quo are incarcerated and tortured by the brute forces of dictatorship. It however only needs the strong will and audacity, the messianic self-sacrifice and determination (which are the values Dockinta incarnates), to expose, ridicule and destroy power drunkenness. This play is sine qua non to searching for the collective memory of a community marginalized and subjugated by successive regimes of exploitation and repression. It promises the rediscovery of the dignity and destiny of an active volcano wrongfully rendered docile. The Search will liberate a people who agonized from the whips by the Germans, the hypocrisy of the British, the outright exploitation of the French and the eternal domination of La Republique du Cameroun. The search will culminate in liberating not only Cameroonians, but Africa from corruption, nepotism, tribalism, organized crime, wars and the abuse of basic human rights and freedoms.
In Chains for My Country is an account of the struggle of the Southern Cameroons National Council (SCNC), a nonviolent liberation movement, to wrestle British Southern Cameroons from the colonial claws of la République du Cameroun. It is an epic and thrilling account of the life of British Southern Cameroons, which passed from colonial rule to foreign domination through annexation and attempted assimilation into neighbouring la République du Cameroun. Under British trusteeship, British Southern Cameroons graduated to self-government in 1954 with all hopes of independence. Instead, the Trust Territory was doomed to subservience in a contested union with la République du Cameroun. Failure to implement United Nations Resolution 1608 of April 1961 to establish the envisioned federation of two states equal in status facilitated la République du Cameroun's annexation and colonial occupation of a defenseless United Nations Trust as Britain withdrew all its personnel and forces. The territory has been reduced to two provinces of la République du Cameroun under the rule of proconsuls backed by an imperial occupation force with an agenda of nipping in the bud any resistance.
This prolific collection of essays, with contributions from scholars from across several disciplines, on the practice and implications of naming 'Nomenclatural Poetization and Globalization' explores diverse concerns in onomastics, such as cultural and ethnic implications as well as individual identity formation processes in the age of Globalization and extends these to a variety of contemporary theories of appreciation and internationalization.
What does it mean to be marginal? For residents of Cape Town?s Langa Township, being considered marginal is subject to a host of social, physical and sometimes materialistic qualifications ? not least of which is owning a mobile phone. Through various presentations of unique aspects of township life revealed through ethnographic snapshots, this book reveals the complex realities of marginalization experienced by some residents in Langa Township, located in Cape Town, South Africa. Mobile phones have been embraced and accommodated by both local South Africans and African immigrant residents living and working in Langa. Among other things, the technology has become a way of challenging (real and imagined) marginalities within the township in particular and South Africa in general. The book provides empirical data on the role of technology in regards to migration and notions of belonging; specifically the ways that technology has mitigated distance for residents, provided opportunities for development, facilitated the negotiation of various marginalities, and offered new ways of belonging for Langa residents.
Africa's dynamic security environment is characterized by great diversity - from conventional challenges such as insurgencies, resource and identity conflicts, and post-conflict stabilization to growing threats from piracy, narcotics trafficking, violent extremism, and organized crime taking root in urban slums, among others. This precarious environment jeopardizes security at the societal, community and individual levels. In a globalized and interconnected world, millions of people worldwide are affected by some form of human insecurity. Infectious and parasitic diseases annually kill millions. Internally displaced persons number millions, including 5 million in Sudan alone. In Zambia 1 million people in a population of 11 million are reported to be HIV-positive, a situation much worse in other countries. Potable water crisis looms almost everywhere. In this book Tatah Mentan points out the need to shift the focus away from a state-centric and military-strategic emphasis on security to an interdisciplinary and people-centric approach that embraces notions like global citizenship, empowerment and participation. The primary elements of economic, food, health, environment, personal, community and political security all comprise the broader understanding of human security in an intricately interconnected world.
This book is an ethnographic study of a group of migrants in Cape Town from Malawi, Zimbabwe and South Africa. It seeks to understand how migrants overcome structural exclusion by forming and maintaining convivial relationships through the Bay Community Church and how this is facilitated by Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs). The book argues that ICTs are implicated in the negotiation of conviviality. ICTs allow for a negotiation of intimacy and distance; although their functions may facilitate more contact than is desired or further distance those already separated physically. This book interrogates the strict division between 'insiders' and 'outsiders' and highlights that migrants are able to sustain multiple networks and relationships, linking their home and host countries. Despite increasingly strict border control and animosity from host communities, migrants are able to overcome imposed identities such as 'outsider'. They do so by using ICTs such as cell phones and Facebook to emphasise their Christian identity, which is one of the main factors for inclusion in church-based networks. Membership with a mixed denominational church such as the Bay further challenges the notion that migrants stick to themselves. Inclusive communities such as the Bay and everyday desires for conviviality evoke the need to reconsider policies too narrowly articulated around the dichotomisation of 'foreigners' and 'nationals', 'home' and 'away', 'us' and 'them'.
Cameroon's Predicaments
(2014)
This book deals with a variety of socio-cultural, economic and political problems facing Cameroon and the rest of Africa, with particular reference to unemployment, corruption, poverty, criminality, violence, insecurity, and moral decadence. It presents a critical analysis of government policies from the colonial era to the present time; arguing that most of these policies have been stalled by an uncommitted leadership. The regime in Cameroon has drifted away from basic managerial and democratic principles in in favour of the ethnicisation of politics, sterile consumption, clientelism and patronage. The book contends that corruption has become the main instrument of governance whereby the political and economic elites control the wealth of the nation at the expense of a majority who wallow in abject poverty and misery. Faced with the difficult economic and political situation, most youth and the intelligentsia have adopted ?official and ?unofficial? means to circumvent all immigration rules to travel to affluent Western countries, the consequences notwithstanding. Brain drain is often the outcome. Further, it examines issues of social exclusion, political representation and marginalization with special focus on the predicament of Anglophone Cameroonians as a socio-cultural community. The inclusion of examples and case studies based on empirical and secondary data from Africa is intended to foreground the importance of comparison, and attract the interest of both academic and non-academic readership.
Faith conversion experiences are first of all personal before being universal. While biblical history records relatively few conversion encounters as dramatic and as explosive as Saint Paul's on the road to Damascus, it is not rare for individuals in the throes of a religious conversion to fall prey to intensely agonizing confusion. That is what happened to Martin Jumbam when he marched for peace in his country alongside the charismatic and irrepressible Emeritus Archbishop of Douala in Cameroon, Christian Cardinal Tumi. He joined the prelate as a secular journalist but went back home more than ever conscious of his state as a fallen Christian, the first step in his journey of faith. Since then, all his writing, be it secular or religious, now bears the fruits of that encounter, characterized by intense empathy for the human person. This book recounts the myriad ways Jumbam's encounters with Christian Cardinal Tumi have activated, nourished and inspired his faith.
This book is about home. With Malawi as its focus, it seeks to understand ideas about home as expressed through poetry written by Malawians in English. Although African Literatures are studied those of Malawi have not received agreeable attention. This book surveys poetry by five Malawian writers - Felix Mnthali, Frank Chipasula, Jack Mapanje, Lupenga Mphande, and Steve Chimombo. The discussion negotiates scribed experience of exile, engendered by Dr. Banda's regime, and shows that the selected poets effectively converse with a sense of home, reflecting on its transformations in their work. Interrogating the strict definitions of home, the argument highlights that far from home-less exiles in fact clarify the sense of what 'home' is. The manoeuvre is one of thinking towards an unboundaried 'home'. This book will be of value not only to readers interested in the cultures of Africa but to all those with an interest in worldwide literary phenomena, and ideas therein of home and exile.
How does one think about the form of the State in its management of conflicting ethnic groups in positive light in Africa in the present and in the future? Ethnic reality in Africa continues to be the principal determining factor of individual and collective existence, constituting an obstacle to the normal operation of its States, which often fail or collapse. In the global era, the re-organisation of power and of thought in plural societies leads to socio-political and geopolitical stabilisation. The author here argues for the implementation of 'deliberative democracy' or 'governance under the tree' as a synthesis of liberal and republican democracy based on the 'win-win' principle, different from majoritarian democracy where the 'winner takes all'. The theory of the multinational state thus proposes a constitutional, political and conceptual innovation in the plural societies of the 21st century: it entails restructuring the imagination to allow a global shift in African political thought, its needs, desires, quests, expectations and hopes.
Touring Girls
(2014)
Touring Girls tells the story of Jacob Mbuy a young Cameroonian whose primary objective in life is having affairs with as many women as possible. He is obsessed with abusing young girls as well as instilling hopeless hope in adult women. His demise comes when he changes his world from the Christian to the Moslem world where he confronts a new type of women who behave strangely and cannot dance to his tunes. Protected by Islamic traditions and strict government laws, Jacob lands into a hell of unprecedented problems.