Essays in World Languages and Cultures

Stereotypes and the Challenges of Representation

by Yves-Antoine Clemmen, Margit Grieb, and Will Lehman (eds.)

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Synopsis

This volume consists of 16 papers selected from the 22nd Southeast Conference on Foreign Languages, Literatures and Films held on February 25-27, 2016 on the campus of Stetson University in Celebration, Florida. The shared focus of the essays is to examine how writers, filmmakers and language educators address stereotypes in their representations of diverse cultural paradigms by using, deconstructing or displacing these stereotypes. The fourth section of this publication includes 4 experimental poems by the artist Susanne Eules.

About the Author

Yves-Antoine Clemmen is Professor of French and Chair of World Languages and Cultures at Stetson University. Margit Grieb is Associate Professor of German at the University of South Florida where she also directs the Film Studies Certificate program. Will Lehman is Associate Professor of German at Western Carolina University.