Product Description: German Text Crimes offers new perspectives on scandals and legal actions implicating writers of German literature since the 1950s. Topics range from literary echoes of the "Heidegger Affair" to recent incitements to murder businessmen (agents of American neo-liberal power) in works by Rolf Hochhuth and others...read more

Product Description: Feridun Zaimoglu made a spectacular entrance onto the German cultural scene in 1995 with Kanak Sprak: a volume of incendiary texts based on interviews with disaffected Turkish German youths, using an invented, stylized literary language, a hybrid of multiple varieties of German with a hip hop beat...read more

Product Description: Germany has become home to some 2.5 million people of Turkish background since mass recruitments in the 1960s and 1970s to man the "economic miracle." An increasingly settled Turkish German population now asserts a permanent place in Germany: over a third were born there, and a third have German citizenship...read more

Rooted in Algerian experience, this book speaks of urgent concerns everywhere - oppression, resistance, state violence, traumas and private dreams.

Product Description: This volume of poems was published first in German by Rowohlt and has now been translated into three other languages and illustrated beautifully by the artist and poet Christoph Meckel. Concise and extremely visual, these poems are almost as if they are hewn into stone...read more

Product Description: Features poetry, fiction, drama and testimony by refugees and asylum seekers, with other writers in Wales, including Anahita Alikhani, Menna Elfyn, Hamira Geedy, Aliou Keita and Gwyn Thomas.

Product Description: Zafer Senocak is an important German literary voice from the over two-million-strong Turkish community in Germany. He is primarily a poet, short story writer, novelist and librettist (as well as translator/editor of classical and contemporary Turkish literature in German)...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Francis James Child (1825-1896) was to the traditional balladry of the English-speaking world what the Brothers Grimm were to fairytales. His edition of The English and Scottish Popular Ballads (1882-1898) has never been superseded: it is an invaluable resource for scholars in many disciplines, as well as for singers, poets and other writers...read more

Product Description: This book introduces anglophone readers to the ballad picture show, a cultural institution which anticipated both the cinema and the tabloid press.