WELCOME TO COPAS
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* The current issue collects seven papers, presented during the most recent conference of the Postgraduate Forum. We extend our thanks to the team at the University of Leipzig who elegantly doubled in their function as organizers and guest editors. We happily announce a wonderful addition to the editorial team and gladly welcome Sascha Pöhlmann and Steffi Szlezák to our group. Our continual thanks go to Suzie Leikam for relentless and always effective public relations work on top of her editorial duties. Read in this volume on concepts of community that depart from utopian ideals in Verena Harz’s “Building a Better Place: Utopianism and the Revision of Community in Toni Morrison’s Paradise”; on negotiations of home and self through travel in return narratives as argued in Evangelia Kindinger’s “‘Only Stones and Stories Remain’: Greek American (Travel) Writing about Greece” and in Alexandra Schein’s “A Spiritual Homecoming: Ireland in Contemporary Movies about Ireland”; on the role of place in the production of autobiographical knowledge in Alexandra Wagner’s “‘Confusions about the place and the way in which I grew up’: Place and Knowledge in Joan Didion’s Memoir Where I Was From”; on unexpected philosophical continuities in Christian Knirsch’s “The Romantic Veil (of Perception): American Transcendentalism and British Romanticism as a Continuation of Lockean Empiricism”; on the reinventions of region in works of fiction and in sites in Marleen Schulte’s “Shifting Spaces in the Critical Regionalist Fiction of New England” and in Klara Stephanie Szlezák’s “‘Welcome to Our Home!’: Staging Practices at Louisa May Alcott’s Orchard House.” * |