Globalization, Cultural Identities, and Media Representations

Acknowledgments

vii Acknowledgments This volume is a selection of contributions from the international conference “Cultural Identities and Media Representations,”held at the University of Constance in September 2001. Our first thanks goes to the members of the Collaborative Research Center 511, Literature and Anthropology, of the University of Constance, who generously sponsored this project and made it possible to bring together scholars from the most distant parts of the world. The final outcome of this volume is, of course, to the credit of the participants of the conference themselves, and we owe them profound thanks for their stimulating papers and their friendly and, most of all, patient cooperation. We also wish to express a special word of gratitude to those whose papers are, for one reason or another, not included in this volume, for their contributions and inspiring comments, which have greatly enhanced the general intellectual spirit of the conference and this volume. These include Kayo Adachi-Rabe, Chris Berry, Greg Dimitriadis, Dorle Dracklé, Stefan Rieger, Nie Xinru, Nina Zimnik, and Zhu Jianhua. Finally, we would also like to thank the editors of SUNY Press for their meticulous editorial work and most friendly cooperation. Natascha Gentz Stefan Kramer Constance and Frankfurt, November 2004 GLOBALIZATION, CULTURAL IDENTITIES, and MEDIA REPRESENTATIONS ...