Global fissures : : postcolonial fusions / / edited by Clara A.B. Joseph and Janet Wilson.
The essays in this volume examine the tensions between two major political and intellectual structures: the global and the postcolonial, charting the ways in which such tensions are constitutive of changing power relations between the individual, the nation-state and global forces. Contributors ask...
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| Superior document: | Cross/cultures, 85 |
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| Year of Publication: | 2006 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Cross/cultures ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (353 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Illustrations
- Introduction: Global Fissures : Postcolonial Fusions
- Section 1: Theorizing the Global and the Postcolonial
- John C. HAWLEY: Theorizing the Diaspora
- ROBERT SPENCER: The Price of Silence: Intellectual Communication in the Age of Globalization
- Shaobo XIE: Is the World Decentred? A Postcolonial Perspective on Globalization
- Section 2: Globalization and Literature
- Cynthia SUGARS: "World Famous Across Canada": National Identity in the Global Village
- Chitra SANKARAN: Ethics, Aesthetics and the Globalized Other in Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things
- A. Clare BRANDABUR: The Elephant in the Living-Room: A Postcolonial Reading of Waiting for Godot
- Isabel HOVING: On Invasions, Weeds, and Wilderness: The Dutch Imagination of Globalization (thrice)
- C.L. INNES: Cosmopolitan Readers and Postcolonial Identities
- Mustapha MARROUCHI: The Fantasy of Home
- Section 3: Globalization, Politics and Culture
- Vijayasree CHAGANTI & Kanukolanuk RAVICHANDRA: Macaulay to Microsoft: Globalization and the Indian Academy
- Jennifer LAWN: Creativity Inc. Globalizing the Cultural Imaginary in New Zealand
- Chris PRENTICE: Riding the Whale? Postcolonialism and Globalization in Whale Rider
- Martin SPAUL & AMINA MINHAS: Representing Interconnection and Cultural Flow: Towards Reframing Tourist Experiences with New Media
- Peter D. OSBORNE: anredoM acitpO or Aztec Cameras: Cultural Hybridity and Latin American Photography
- Notes on Contributors.