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Mark Stein is a German critic, writer, and academic who runs the National and Transnational Studies programme (NTS) at Münster University. He's Chair of English Studies, specialising in postcolonial and diaspora literatures and cultures, with a focus on porosity and translocation in anglophone cultural production. He works on authors including Bernardine Evaristo, Andrea Levy, Grace Nichols, Caryl Phillips, Abdulrazak Gurnah, David Dabydeen, and Teju Cole. ...more

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	Black British Literature: Novels of Transformation 3.38 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2004 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cheeky Fictions: Laughter and the Postcolonial (Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft, 91) 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2005	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Edward Said's Translocations: Essays in Secular Criticism by Tobias Döring (Editor), Mark Stein (Goodreads Author) (Editor) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2011 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Postcolonial Translocations: Cultural Representation and Critical Spatial Thinking (ASNEL Papers, 156/17) by Marga Munkelt (Editor), Markus Schmitz (Editor), Mark Stein (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2012 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hybrid Cultures - Nervous States: Britain and Germany in a (Post)Colonial World by Ulrike Lindner (Editor), Maren Möhring (Editor), Mark Stein (Goodreads Author) (Editor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2004 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Crossovers: Postcolonial Studies and Transcultural Learning (6) (Fremdsprachendidaktik in globaler Perspektive) by Christiane Luetge (Editor), Mark Stein (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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The Black Diaspora and Germany / Deutschland und die Schwarze Diaspora

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Modernity, Freedom, and the African Diaspora: Dublin, New Orleans, Paris (Blacks in the Diaspora)

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