The series Culture and Conflict aims to promote a dynamic, pluridisciplinary dialogue meant to discuss the multiple ways in which conflict influences, supports or constrains the production of meaning in modernity. It publishes innovative original scholarship from the fields of literary and cultural studies as well as media, visual and film studies. Culture and conflict inevitably go together. The very idea of culture is marked by the notion of difference and creative, i.e., conflictual interaction. Differential markers, such as self and other, inside and outside, high and low, pure and dirty, old and new, support the key themes of the study of culture, e.g., identity and diversity, memory and trauma, translation of cultures and globalization, mediation and exclusion. The new series Culture and Conflict aims to promote a dynamic, pluridisciplinary dialogue meant to discuss the multiple ways in which conflict influences, supports or constrains the production of meaning in modernity. It publishes innovative original scholarship from the fields of literary and cultural studies as well as media, visual and film studies.

Was heißt es, fremd zu sein, sich fremd zu fühlen, als Fremder gesehen zu werden? Dieser Band beschreibt, diskutiert und reflektiert die wichtigsten Ansätze von Fremdheit und Fremdsein. Über mehrere transdisziplinäre Zugänge wird sowohl die Figur des und der Fremden als auch die Erfahrung von Fremdheit betrachtet. Das Buch führt umfassend in ein hochaktuelles Thema ein.