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