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In a global context where the speed and volume of migration have continuously increased, communicative failure shows up in cultural conflicts as thematized in Asian American women's literature. When the text surface suggests that migrant identity is flexibly hybrid, are there deeper textual layers? This book probes the limitations not only of the usual methods of literary study, but of Western constructions of the experience of loss and deprivation. Can literary interpretation gain from adapting new conceptualizations developed in the science-oriented field of intercultural communication...

The book traces individuals adaptive interventions in the cultural sphere. More specifically, it investigates the purposes of dramatic adapting, which is basically regarded as a political activity. Following the intense micropolitical combat of an author with the precursor Shakespeare, adaptation becomes comprehensible as part of the ceaseless motions of macrocultural change. At each adaptation s centre, an individual subject s identity act encounters external discourses, and these transform each other and destabilise ideologies. Moreover, they lay siege to the cultural powerhouse...

Bis heute ist der Begriff Theater des Absurden, den Martin Esslin 1961 in seinem gleichnamigen Standardwerk pragte, umstritten. Als Erganzung wird in dieser Arbeit die Bezeichnung Drama des Skandals und der Angst vorgeschlagen. Trotz unterschiedlicher kultureller Hintergrunde beobachten Edward Albee, Harold Pinter, Eugene Ionesco und Jean Genet den gleichen Werteverfall und stellen diesen auf der Buhne zur Schau. Fur den Zusammenbruch der staatlichen, familiaren und religiosen Ordnung sorgen in ihren Stucken Eindringlinge, die ihre Opfer mit dem metaphysischen Skandal der freien...