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This study explores translations of Antonio Tabucchi's writing from a global perspective. The book analyses these texts as a way of revealing key issues in translation studies as well as offering fascinating new perspectives on the transnational movement of texts between and across languages.

This volume collects the voices of descendents of African American soldiers who liberated Germany from fascist rule. Black German writers here convey their experiences through life writing, interviews and literary works as well as through research essays that illuminate this almost forgotten history of US American-German relations.

Hermann Hesse once stated that his Japanese readers understood him best. This book examines his reception in Japan and of Japan in the context of a transcultural reception process. It analyses the different phases of Hesse's reception in Japan, the influence of Wilhelm Gundert as well as his epistolary exchange with his Japanese readers.