Bettina Hofmann
Bettina Hofmann enseña Estudios Americanos en la Universidad de Wuppertal, Alemania. Está particularmente interesada en las literaturas étnicas y la literatura de guerra. Actualmente está trabajando sobre escritoras japonesas americanas de principios del siglo XX.
Ha publicado sobre escritores judíos norteamericanos como Michael Gold y David Bezmozgis. Su publicación más reciente es sobre el autor chino-estadounidense Ha Jin (“Ha Jin's A Free Life : Revisiting the Kuenstlerroman ”. Moving Migration: Narrative Transformations in Asian American Literature . Ed. Johanna C. Kardux y Doris Einsiedel. Berlín: Lit Verlag, 2010. 199-212.)
Actualizado en agosto de 2010
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Teaching Japanese American Literature at a German University
22 de septiembre de 2010 • Bettina Hofmann
I teach American Studies at the University of Wuppertal. Our school is located in a post-industrial area near Cologne, Germany, and many of our students aspire to become English teachers. One topic about American culture and society which proves particularly interesting to my students is ethnicity. This has become an especially important topic in our society which for a long time claimed to be mono-ethnic and denied different ethnic diversity of its own citizens. In the summer term of 2010 …
