Borders, exiles, diasporas / edited by Elazar Barkan and Marie-Denise Shelton.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Elazar Barkan and Marie-Denise Shelton -- 1. The Dilemma of the "But": Writing Germanness After the Holocaust / Angelika Bammer -- 2. Re-Dressing the "German-Jewish": A Jewish Hermaphrodite and Cross-Dresser in Wilhelmine Germany / David Brenner -- 3. Accenting L.A.: Central Europeans in Diasporan Hollywood in the 1940s / Catherine Portuges -- 4. Scraps of Culture: African Style in the African American Community of Los Angeles / Leslie W. Rabine -- 5. Coming of Age in Zambesia / Jane Hotchkiss -- 6. Pleasure's Exile: Reinaldo Arenas's Last Writing / Ricardo L. Ortiz -- 7. Defiance and Reconciliation in Paul Celan's Die Niemandsrose / Erin G. Carlston -- 8. Mimesis, Mimicry, and Critical Theory in Exile: Walter Benjamin's Approach to the College de Sociologie / Tyrus Miller -- 9. "Sharing the Unshareable": Jabes, Deconstruction, and the Thought of the "Jews" / Joan Brandt --

10. On the Exile of Words in the American Simulacrum: A Free Exercise in Wittgensteinian Cultural Critique / Daniel Herwitz -- 11. Antonin Artaud's Itinerary Through Exile and Insanity / Renee Riese Hubert -- 12. Immigration, Poster Art, and Transgressive Citizenship: France, 1968-1988 / Francoise Lionnet -- 13. Michelle Cliff's No Telephone to Heaven: Diasporic Displacement and the Feminization of the Landscape / Wendy W. Walters -- 14. Monstrosity and Representation in the Postcolonial Diaspora: The Satanic Verses, Ulysses, and Frankenstein / Ronald Bush -- 15. Cultural Metissage and the Play of Identity in Leila Sebbar's Sherazade Trilogy / Anne Donadey -- 16. Fatal Nationality: Sulayman Fayyad's Novel Voices / Emily A. Haddad -- 17. Borders, Exiles, Minor Literatures: The Case of Palestinian-Israeli Writing / Rena N. Potok -- 18. The Poetics and Politics of Space in J. M. G. Le Clezio's: Etoile errante / Walter Putnam.