本丛书的特点是：根据预先确定的主题，向国内外跨文化研究界征稿，作者均为该领域卓有成就的专家学者。本辑着眼于从跨文化角度进行文学研究，收录了来自中国、德国、法国、荷兰、中国香港等多个国家和地区作者之手的16篇代表性文章，分别从跨文化视角下文学研究的基本概念和定位，流散文学的产生历程，跨文化身份，跨文化迁移等方面，探讨了跨文化视角下文学研究的基本定义、理论框架、应用以及学科之间的互动，揭示了跨文化研究和文学研究两个学科之间互相推动、互相促进的重要作用和意义。

Series Foreword
Volume Preface
Crossing Bridges: Literary and Intercultural Study
Reconsidering Intercultural Narratives. Prologue to Research
on Rachel Davis DuBois and Early Textual Approaches to
Interculturality
Section One Concepts and Orientations
1. Interfacing Literature, Culture, and (Intercultural)
Communication Studies in the Digital Era
2. Comparative Literature Meets Translation Theory
3. Comparative Literature, Translation, and Intercultural
Studies. Interaction and Mutual Enhancement
4. Literary Studies and Transtextual Transculturality
5. Performances of Meaning: A Transversal Inquiry
6. The Tao and the Logos Revisited
Section Two Diasporic Discourses
7. Cultural Encounters in the Diaspora: Intercultural
Communication and Identity in Terry Woo's Banana Boys
8. Middle-Class, Mobile, Queer and African: Transnationalism
in Online Writing from Nigeria and South Africa
9. The Death of Identity: The Representation of Black
Diasporic "Identity" in Americanah
10. "You May Enter But You Will Never Be Inside". Diasporic
Constructions of Stasis and Progress in the African Homeland
Section Three Cross-Cultural Identities
11. From Separating to Uniting Hyphen: "Hyphenated
Identities" in Gish Jen's and Elif Shafak's Novels
12. Tasting Interculturality: Culinary Visions of America in
Elif Shafak's The Bastard of Istanbul
13. Identity Negotiation in Gish Jen's Mona in the Promised
Land
14. Power Relations and the Body in Transcu
Communication: Reading Zadie Smith's White Teeth
15. Small-Town Family as a Battlefield: Reading Cultural
Influences in Alice Munro's "Chaddeleys and Flemings"
Section Four Variations of Cross-Cultural Transfer
16. "All the races": Reassessing the American Community Masque
17. From Social Norms to Law: Translational Dysfunction and
Palimpsest in The Contract and The Merchant of Venice
18. Dialogical Hermeneutics as an Alternative Model for
Literary Imagination: A Critique of Ethical Criticism
Appendix
Introductory Explanation Michael Steppat & Steve J. Kulich
Intercultural Concepts of Identity
The Challenge of an Intercultural Literature
About the Authors
About the Series