Karin Ikas is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of English & American Studies at Frankfurt (M) University where she also holds a senior research position in the Department of Social Sciences. Her dissertation on "Modern Chicana Literature: An Intercultural Analysis" won the prestigious Daimler Chrysler Foundation's "Academy Award for Intercultural Studies." Her books include Chicana Ways (2002), Gender Debat/tl/ed (2003), Stories from Down Under, co-edited with David Carter (2004), Violence and Transgression in World Minority Literatures (co-editor, 2005) and Global Realignments and the Canadian Nation in the Third Millennium (2009). Forthcoming is 'A Nation Forged in Fire': Canadian Literature and the Construction of National Identity.

Gerhard Wagner

Preface: In the Cave of Making: Thoughts on Third Space. Homi K. Bhabha. Introduction. The Quest for Inter- or Transcultural Communication 1. Cosmopolitanization Without Cosmopolitans: On the Distinction between Normative and Empirical-analytical Cosmopolitanism in Philosophy and the Social Sciences Ulrich Beck 2. Encounters in the Third Space: Links Between Intercultural Communication Theories and Postcolonial Approaches Britta Kalscheuer The Spatial Turn 3. Thirdspace: Toward a New Consciousness of Space and Spatiality Edward W. Soja 4. Pitfalls of (Third) Space: Rethinking the Effects of Location Julia Lossau Theorizing the Third Space 5. The Void of Misgiving Robert J.C. Young 6. Postcolonial Subjectivity and the Transclassical Logic of the Third Karin Ikas and Gerhard Wagner Literizing the Third Space 7. Caliban's Voice: Writing in the Third Space Bill Ashcroft 8. Crossing into a Mexifornian Third Space Karin Ikas Locations and Negotiations 9. Transcultural Negotiations: Third Spaces in Modern Times Frank Schulze-Engler 10. Two Nations in the Third Space: Postcolonial Theory and the Polish Revolution Gerhard Wagner Contributors. Index