Christian Schmidt-Wellenburg Livres

‘Postblack Aesthetics’ investigates the changing contours of contemporary African American fiction. It argues that the novels and short stories by Paul Beatty, Trey Ellis, Percival Everett, Charles Johnson (but also white author Adam Mansbach) continue the African American literary tradition even if they do so in satirical, parodic, and highly self-reflexive ways. Through rigorous close readings, the study analyzes form and themes of this fiction as ‘postblack’ (Thelma Golden). Postblack art engages in complex redefinitions of blackness that transcend confining notions of mimetic literary representation while being aware of continuing social discrimination. In their respective attempts to re-write black fiction, these texts revolve around the central topos of freedom – a freedom from, first and foremost, confining notions of ‘literary’ blackness. Among the crucial questions discussed are: What is a (post)black text? What is a black author? How does blackness figure in contemporary literature?

Ireland, Estonia and Slovenia have during the 1990s and early 2000s economically significantly improved by giving incentives and building up an attracting infrastructure to foreign and indigenous companies in selected sectors, like the ICT sector. In this thesis are strategies and political methods for attracting high value added foreign direct investments in the ICT sector, a sector which can lead to a modernization in countries, shown and discussed. The strategies for attracting high value added foreign direct investments in Estonia, Slovenia and Ireland in the ICT sector are at the theories of the “Porters Diamond Model”, “Footloose Capital Model”, “Theory of long waves and the product cycle” according to the infrastructure, taxation, incentives, national restrictions and laws, structures of national investment promotion agencies and national export processing zones compared and at the end the results of these political methods discussed.

This book develops efficient methods for the application of Evolutionary Algorithms on stochastic problems. To achieve this, procedures for statistical selection are systematically analyzed with respect to different measures and significantly improved. It is shown how to adapt one of the best procedures for the needs of Evolutionary Algorithms and Evolutionary operators for efficient implementation in stochastic environments are identified.

Over the next couple of years, the European Union will face a difficult stage, being confronted with the eventual transition to a monetary union. In the beginning of 1997, it is less clear than ever, if and when the European Monetary Union will eventually be realized, which countries will join in this process, and which countries will benefit from monetary union or are likely to loose out. Using econometric methods, the work attempts to assess the real economic effects of the European Monetary Union. In a first step, differences in labor and goods market adjustment processes between the fifteen member states of the European Union, the United States and Canada are studied in order to evaluate the short-term prospects of monetary union. Turning to the long-run effects, within a second step, convergence of living standards is assessed.

Biographical note: Christian Schmidt ist wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Institut für Berufs- und Weiterbildung der Universität Duisburg¿Essen.

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