David N. Coury is Frankenthal Professor of the Humanities, German, and Global Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay.

Karolin Machtans is Associate Professor of German Studies at Connecticut College.

Contents: Karolin Machtans, Trans. David N. Coury: Interview with Abbas Khider - Katherine Anderson: Productive Ruptures: Trauma as Both a Disruptive and Generative Force in Abbas Khider's Der falsche Inder and Die Orangen des Präsidenten - Markus Hallensleben: Portraying the Refugee as a Transitional Figure of Plurality: The Performance of Gender and Ethnicity in the Postmigrant Narratives of Abbas Khider's Der falsche Inder and Ohrfeige - Warda El-Kaddouri: Islam and the Image of God in Abbas Khider's Der falsche Inder and Ohrfeige - Carolin Müller: The Transience of Prisoners' Memoirs in Abbas Khider's Die Orangen des Präsidenten - Sabine Zimmermann: Refuge and Refuse: Waste Imagery in Abbas Khider's Die Orangen des Präsidenten and Ohrfeige - Jara Schmidt: «[W] enn die anderen rausbekämen, dass ich eine Mannfrau bin»: Grotesque Physicality and Carnivalesque Subversions in Abbas Khider's Ohrfeige - Beate Baumann and Corinne Puglisi: «German Is My New Tongue»: The Role of (Foreign) Language in the Construction of Identity - Karolin Machtans: Multilingual Aesthetics in Abbas Khider's Deutsch für alle: Das endgültige Lehrbuch.