Renate von Bardeleben, Sabina Matter-Seibel, and Klaus H. Schmidt work in various fields of American Studies at the University of Mainz in Germersheim. They have published and edited numerous books and essays on a wide range of topics from colonial times to the present. Besides translation studies, their research focuses on autobiography, travel, gender, and ethnicity.

• Contents: Renate von Bardeleben/Sabina Matter-Seibel/Klaus H. Schmidt: Introduction – Juan Bruce-Novoa: The Rhetorics of Latino Survival in the U.S.: 1528-1961 – Vincent Carretta: Revising One's Self: Constructing. Phillis Wheatley's Anglophone-African Identity – Udo J. Hebel: «Not a story to pass on»? The Pluralization of American Memory in Historical Dramas by Harlem Renaissance Women Playwrights – Charles T. Johnson: Dr. Charles J. Hexamer: Forgotten German-American Leader – Barbara Buchenau: Ethnic Performance and the Self-Representation of Frederic Philip Grove – Laura Hapke: Red Scares, Ethnicity, and the Jungle of Worlcing-Class Desire in the 1920s Novels of Theodore Dreiser and Upton Sinclair – Elke Kinkel: Thomas Mann in America: A Privileged German’s (Ethnic) Survival – Alvin H. Rosenfeld: Translating Atrocity – Harald Leder: Changing People's Minds? American Reorientation in Germany After World War II – John Purdy: Autoethnography and Issues of Representation in the Post-Indian Era – Sabina Matter-Seibel: Aliens, Translators, Native Speakers: Language and Identity in Asian-American Fiction – Maren Dingfelder Stone: Tulips, Windmills, and Wooden Shoes: Dutch-American Festive Culture as a Means of Ethnic Survival? – Horst Tonn: Ethnic Interventions: Hollywood Film and the New Multiculturalism – Justine Dymond: Ethnic Mysteries: Genre, «Race», and the Power of Law – Edgars Ošiņš: Multicultural Canada: Two First Nations Voices – Suzanne Ferriss: Hybrid Subjectivities: Sexuality, Race, and Ethnicity.