Purple Jacaranda - Narrations on transcultural identity development

von: Claude-Hélène Mayer, Stephan Wolting

Waxmann Lehrbuch, 2016

ISBN: 9783830983507 , 248 Seiten

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Purple Jacaranda - Narrations on transcultural identity development


 

Book Cover

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Contents

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Purple Jacaranda – food for thought on a city stroll (Claude-Hélène Mayer)

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“There’s something I wanna tell you …” (Stephan Wolting & Claude-Hélène Mayer)

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Georgia (David Castleton)

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Stopover in B., Germany, East Westphalia (Stephan Wolting)

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Caesura (Elias Jammal)

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Heidelberg: Relocation but no arrival

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During the month of May …

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June/July 2014

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On a lost day in July

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A summer without sunshine

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The first semester!

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Fragments of an unwritten diary …

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January till today (2015)

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Nature child and big soul – meditations at Ayers Rock (Claude-Hélène Mayer)

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Young, female, Canadian and Muslim: Identity negotiation and transcultural experiences (Rashelle V.H. Litchmore & Saba Safdar)

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“When purple Jacarandas fall …” (Aden-Paul Flotman)

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Back to the beginning …

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The journey by train …

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Encountering the slightly unfamiliar…

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Making sense of the senseless …

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In conclusion …

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Mobra was born when he was 13 (Orna Braun-Lewensohn)

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System failures or what is brought to the table (Stephan Wolting)

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Gregory heads east (Greg Bond)

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A recurrent dream (Christian Boness)

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A recurrent dream

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Spirit of the Holy Communion

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Arabic demon

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Good Friday

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A moveable feast (Dominika Krysztofowicz)

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“Multiculti” – (Anti-)Racism during my life in East Germany and in a unified Germany (Ulrich van der Heyden)

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In my backyard, in your backyard (Mandar Purandare)

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Behind the curtain

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Miscellaneous

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Correspondence

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Letter to Father

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E-mail to a dear friend

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Monologues

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Language, languages – monolingual, multilingual

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Understanding: Literature, music, theatre, dance

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Miscellaneous

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A summer afternoon!

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Evolving through cultures, careers and marriages toward a transcultural identity (Clifford H. Clarke)

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1945: Transition from the US to the Territory of Hawaii

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1948: Transition from the Hawaiian Islands to Japan

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1951: Transition from Tokyo to our new assignment in Kyoto, the preserved old capitol of Japan

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1957: Transition from home in Kyoto, Japan, to Atlanta, Georgia

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1958: Transition from Atlanta to Wake Forest University (WFU) in Winston-Salem, North Carolina

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1962: Transition from college in North Carolina, US to Tokyo, Japan

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1963: Transition from Tokyo to graduate school at Duke University in North Carolina

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1966: Transitions from North Carolina to Cornell University in Ithaca, New York

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1971: Transition from Cornell University in New York to Stanford University in California

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1977: Transition from an FSA career into graduate student life and teaching at Stanford University

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1982: Transition from a career in academia to one in global business consultancy

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1995: Transition from California to Hawaii – to a new marriage and a new teaching career

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2016: Transition from the USA to Japan for the last time … maybe …

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The suitcase situation (for Andre) (Oliver Spatz)

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Tivu (Melisa Choubak)

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At home in the world (Ashutosh Kumar)

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A little introduction to the Hungarian language, or “Why make things easy if you can make them Hungarian?” (Eva Teshajev)

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New Year in Poland (Blandine Bizy)

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Biographies

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