Anglistentag 2015 Paderborn

The Conference of the German Association of University Teachers of English (Anglistentag) took place at the University of Paderborn from 23 to 26 September 2015. It was organised by Christoph Ehland, Ilka Mindt and Merle Tönnies.Plenary Lectures: Courttia Newland, Thorsten Piske, Anja SteinlenSection I: Un/Making Homes in Anglophone CulturesDorothee Birke, Stella Butter, Janine Hauthal, Sarah Heinz, Caroline Lusin, Christian Mair, Jochen Petzold, Ellen RedlingSection II: Reading Multiraciality in Anglophone NarrativesJan Alber, Christoph Ehland, Nicole Falkenhayner, Julia Hoydis, Corinna Lenhardt, Miriam Nandi, Christine Vogt-WilliamSection III: Multiple Modernities / Multiple ModernismsJessica Bundschuh, Kylie Crane, Jens Elze, Anne Enderwitz, Nicola Glaubitz, Annika McPherson, Betsy van Schlun, Kai Wiegandt Section IV: English in Multilingual Individuals, Societies and SchoolsTanja Angelovska, Anne Dahl, Angela Hahn, Nuria Hernández, Alexander Kautzsch, Anna Krulatz, Ursula Lanvers, Till Meister, Anne Schröder, Eivind N. Torgersen

Contents Christoph Ehland, Ilka Mindt and Merle Tönnies (Paderborn) Preface xi Courttia Newland (Kingston University London) The New Diaspora Aesthetic and the Black British Writer 1 Anja Steinlen and Thorsten Piske (Erlangen-Nürnberg) Minority Language Students as At-Risk Learners: Myth or Reality?Findings from an Early German-English Partial Immersion Programme 9Section I: Un/Making Homes in Anglophone Cultures Dorothee Birke (Aarhus) and Stella Butter (Gießen) Un/Making Homes in Anglophone Cultures 31 Janine Hauthal (Brüssel) Travelling with Ghosts: Europe as Imaginary Homelandin Dead Europe and Soul Tourists 37 Caroline Lusin (Mannheim) 'Home Matters': Home, Family and Communityin the Contemporary Anglo-Jewish Novel 47 Christian Mair (Freiburg) Digital Yaads, Cyber-Naija, and Homegirls on the Web:Using Pidgins and Creoles to Create Place in Cyberspace 59Jochen Petzold (Regensburg)"I'm not going." Questions of Home and Societyin Nadine Gordimer's No Time Like the Present 67Sarah Heinz (Berlin)Unhomely Spaces and Improper Houses:Representations of Whiteness and Class on British Television 77Ellen Redling (Heidelberg)Home and Away: Place and Political Allegoryin Contemporary British Drama 89Section II: Reading Multiraciality in Anglophone NarrativesJan Alber (Aarhus) and Miriam Nandi (Freiburg)Reading Multiraciality in Anglophone Narratives 103Christoph Ehland (Paderborn)The Impossible Quest of the Middlebrow Hero: The Struggle betweenColonial Angst and Cultural Curiosity in the Anglo-Indian Novel 109Christine Vogt-William (Berlin)"Split Me in Two": Gender and Dougla Identities inIndo-Caribbean Women's Diasporic Fiction 123Julia Hoydis (Köln)All's Turning Black: Mixed-Race Identity Politicsand (Post-)Apocalyptic Fantasy in Nalo Hopkinson's The Chaos 135Nicole Falkenhayner (Freiburg) After Identity: Hanif Kureishi and the Backlash against Multiculturalism 147Corinna Lenhardt (Münster)"As Bones Dig Mass Racial Graves" - The Gothic Excessof Multiraciality in Larissa Lai's Long Poem "Nascent Fashion" 157Section III: Multiple Modernities / Multiple ModernismsJens Elze (Göttingen) and Annika McPherson (Augsburg)Multiple Modernities / Multiple Modernisms 171Anne Enderwitz (Berlin)The Evolutionary Paradigm and the Fourth Dimension 177Kai Wiegandt (Berlin)Blooming Myths: Nationalism, Jewishness and Modernity in Ulysses 187Betsy van Schlun (Bielefeld)Pooling Modernisms: Rediscovering the Activities of the Avant-GardePool Group 197Kylie Crane (Mainz)Plastic Modernities 207Jessica Bundschuh (Stuttgart)"Volcano Time": Temporal Plurality in Anne Carson'sAutobiography of Red 219Nicola Glaubitz (Darmstadt)End(s) of Temporality: Modernism in Literary Historyand the Historiography of Modernity 231Section IV: English in Multilingual Individuals, Societies and SchoolsTanja Angelovska (Salzburg) and Angela Hahn (München)English in Multilingual Individuals, Societies and Schools 245Nuria Hernández (Duisburg-Essen)Bilingual Encounters Online:Constructing a Common Linguistic Codein German-English WhatsApp 253Anne Dahl, Anna Krulatz and Eivind N. Torgersen (Trondheim, Norway)Forging a Linguistically Diverse Future:Implications for EFL Teacher Education Programmes in Norway 267Alexander Kautzsch (Regensburg) and Anne Schröder (Bielefeld)English in Multilingual and Multiethnic Namibia: Some Evidenceon Language Attitudes and on the Pronunciation of Vowels 277Till Meister (Bielefeld)Language Attitude Towards English in a Global Society 289Ursula Lanvers (York)Teaching Languages 'To Instill the Love of Learning':School Management, Teacher and Student Voices in Four UK Schools 303Notes on Contributors 315