Vernacular worlds, cosmopolitan imagination / / edited by Stephanos Stephanides, Stavros Karayanni.
This collection addresses broad questions of ethics and aesthetics in the framework of vernacular cosmopolitanism. With a common anthropological focus, the essays map literary and artistic practices involving cross-cultural transactions shaped by social forces, institutions, and the multiple mediati...
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| Superior document: | Cross/Cultures, Volume 181 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden, [Netherlands] ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill Rodopi,, 2015. ©2015 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Cross/cultures ;
Volume 181. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (258 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material / Stephanos Stephanides and Stavros Karayanni
- Doing the Right Thing: ACLALS, Social Change, and Cultural Activism / Geoffrey V. Davis
- \'There's a Meat Down There\': An Essay on English and the Environment in Africa / Elsie Cloete
- Vernacular Patterns in Flux: Mirroring Change in an Aboriginal Workshop, Tiwi Designs, Northern Australia / Diana Wood Conroy
- Wealth-Giving Mermaid Women and the Malign Magic of the Market: Contemporary Oral Accounts of the South African mamlambo / Felicity Wood
- \'Travelling Knowledges\': Practising Indigenous Literatures in the Indian University / Debashree Dattaray
- What About Shobhaa Dé Indian Pulp Fiction Meets Indian Writing in English / Padmini Mongia
- \'Ghem pona wai?\': Vernacular Imaginations in Contemporary Papua New Guinea Fiction / Paul Sharrad
- Samuel Beckett and J.M. Coetzee: Narrative Power and the Postcolonial / Paul Stewart
- Language and Perception: Reinstating the Individual in Postcolonial Literary Studies / Victor J. Ramraj
- Indigenous Exotic: Cosmopolitan Dingoes and Brumbies / Russell McDougall
- Notes on Contributors / Stephanos Stephanides and Stavros Karayanni
- Index / Stephanos Stephanides and Stavros Karayanni.