German Quarterly, July 1st, 2006
Conceptualizing the predicament and ambition of an academic discipline such as German Studies through the filters of globalization, my foremost concern is mediation of cultural difference through a careful consideration of the local and the global, the here and the elsewhere. That said, I am neither content with the inclusion of "ethnic minority" authors as native informants of difference, nor with the benevolent appraisal of the "non-native" speaker and/or ethnic minority instructor as the sole purveyor of the global cultural agenda. The reason is simple: thinking along with Kant, I am "conce...
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