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Born in the Black Forest to Andalusian parents, the poet José F. A. Oliver has developed in recent decades a complex oeuvre in which multiple languages (German, Spanish, Alemannic and Andalusian) and plural kinships play a chief role. The present paper analyses the prose works of José F. A. Oliver as a fragmentary "language memoir" (Kaplan/Kramsch) while at the same time trying to reconstruct his nomadic identity between and across regions and languages. Special attention will be paid to José F. A. Oliver's use of the metaphors of multiple mothers and the two-storey house when referring to his own multilingual upbringing and literary habitus. In stark contrast to conceptual models of monolingualism which posit the mother tongue as the unique and irreplaceable buttress of national loyalties and literary creativity, José F. A. Oliver's work pleads for an alternative affective relationship to a multiplicity of mother tongues (in plural). In so doing, the present paper underscores the political dimension of José F. A. Oliver's metaphors for multilingualism. His alternative vision allowing the peaceful coexistence of multiple affective loci expressed in very different mother tongues questions the rigid exclusivity of German citizenship politics while simultaneously bringing to light the emancipatory and democratic potential of transregional and multilingual (e.g. Black Forest – Andalusia / Alemannic – Andalusian) identities beyond a national monolingual rationale.

This article addresses reactions to the death of Emperor Hirohito and studies as well as judgements about his life and politics. In Japan, as well as in other countries, opinions are divided. At the center of these debates is the issue of the Emperor's role in Japan's entry into the Second World War. For politicians as well as scholars, Hirohito was either a war criminal or a helpless tool of the militarists. The majority of the Japanese people, however, held and still hold him in high esteem. The next generation of the Imperial family seems to be less distant to ordinary people and seems to be developing into a monarchy similar to those of European countries. The political changes in Japan during 1993 give the impression that the character of state and society have changed compared with late Shōwa Japan.

Preliminary Material /Michael G. Festl and Philipp Schweighauser --Die erste Schwalbe /Philipp Schweighauser and Michael G. Festl --Dramen der An(v)erkennung: Kritische Theorie als Literaturgeschichte /Thomas Claviez --Was ist Freiheit? Der Beitrag der Gegenwartskunst /Winfried Fluck --Die kompetitive Familie: Jonathan Franzens Freiheit und Subjektivität in der demokratischen Familie /Michael G. Festl --Emersons politisches Denken und die Dichtung /Ridvan Askin --Leben auf der Schwelle: Diderots "Neffe" als Störenfried im Spannungsfeld zwischen Literatur und Philosophie /Dieter Thomä --Stanley Cavell und die politische Dimension der literarischen Moderne /R.M. Berry --"Gut": Becketts Verhandlungen von Macht in seinen Fernsehspielen für den Süddeutschen Rundfunk /Philipp Schweighauser --Flucht – Grenzgang – Ankunft: Politische Theorie zwischen Literatur, Philosophie und Sozialwissenschaft /Claudia Franziska Brühwiler --Literarische Sprache, Intersubjektivität und Gemeinschaft bei Wittgenstein und Dostojewski /Tea Lobo --Odyssee ohne Ankunft: Migration und Fremdheit in Jeffrey Eugenides' Middlesex /Florian Grosser --'Communitism' in Aktion: Indigene Gemeinschaft, dekolonialer Aktivismus und Videospiel-Narrativ in Kisima Ingitchuna (Never Alone) /Deborah Madsen --Jüdische Männer, jüdische Anwälte: Philip Roths "Eli, der Fanatiker" und das Problem jüdischer Männlichkeit im amerikanischen Rechtswesen /Martha C. Nussbaum --Autorenverzeichnis /Michael G. Festl and Philipp Schweighauser --Begriffsregister /Michael G. Festl and Philipp Schweighauser.

Warum sich jetzt mit "1968" befassen? Aspekte des Widerständigen in Musik / Jörn Peter Hiekel -- 1968 in der DDR. Wahrnehmungsspuren in einem "ruhigen Land" / Walter Schmitz -- Kulturpolitische Tauwetterperioden und ihre Auswirkungen auf die Musik der DDR / Klaus Mehner -- Erfahrungen als Komponist in Prag seit 1968 / Marek Kopelent -- Autonomieästhetik zwischen Ost und West / Albrecht von Massow -- Wie nun aber Autonomie klingen mag? Reflexionen zu den Spuren gesellschaftlicher Verhältnisse im kompositorischen Schaffen / Wilfried Kratzschmer -- Der Prager Frühling in einer Perspektive generationenspezifischer Erwartungen. Zur diskussion zwischer Milan Kundera und Václav Havel im Winter 1968/69 / Miloš Havelka -- 1968 -- Ästhetik des Aufbruchs? / Hans-Klaus Jungheinrich -- Aufbruch -- wohin? Die Musikentwicklung in Ungarn in den 1960er/1970er Jahren / Hartmut Lück -- Der letzte Tag der Kindheit / Utz Rachowski

Since there is no state structure in the Jahiliyyah Period, political situation is highly uncertain and mysterious. However, the political situation reached its peak with the Umayyad dynasty while still being present during the Jahiliyyah Period. It is a known fact that the civilizations of The Jahiliyyah Period are quite different from the other civilizations in the past times. Due to geographic hardships, it is impossible to survive in the Arabian Peninsula with a nuclear family. Thus, the people of the age were forced to live with groups of people who are gathered by kindred ship. These group created the concept of tribe as a social structure. A tribe is a small state in the desert who has a socio-politic structure more than just kindred ship. Tribe members live in the tribe they are born into and obey to its rules. In addition, the tribe members join battles, get their revenge, and internalize the honour and reputation of their tribe as their own. Each tribe has a leader, and the tribes are governed by their leaders. The term "tribe" also states the political organization inside the tribe. The spirit that leads the members of a tribe to take action against the hazards and act together is called Asabiyyah. The motto of Asabiyyah is "help your brother, tyrant or oppressed". The people of the period were forced to comply with the rules and the politics that are created by the formation of tribes. Tribe life affected the literary works of the period. The poets of the period wrote many political praise poems to help their tribe dominate the politics, and many political satiric poems to criticize their enemies. In this article, political poems written in the Jahiliyyah period will be exemplified.