Global fragments : : (dis)orientation in the new world order / / edited by Anke Bartels and Dirk Wiemann.

• Superior document: ASNEL papers ; 10
• TeilnehmendeR: Bartels, Anke.; Wiemann, Dirk.
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: ASNEL papers ; 10.; Cross/cultures ; 90.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (380 p.)
• Notes: "This volume presents a collection of papers read at the international conference 'Global Fragments: (Dis)orientation in the New World Order' held at Magdeburg in May 2003."--P. x.

While the world seems to be getting ever smaller and globalization has become the ubiquitous buzz-word, regionalism and fragmentation also abound. This might be due to the fact that, far from being the alleged production of cultural homogeneity, the global is constantly re-defined and altered through the local. This tension, pervading much of contemporary culture, has an obvious special relevance for the new varieties of English and the literature published in English world-wide. Postcolonial literatures exist at the interface of English as a hegemonic medium and its many national, regional and local competitors that transform it in the new English literatures. Thus any exploration of a globalization of cultures has to take into account the fact that culture is a complex field characterized by hybridization, plurality, and difference. But while global or transnational cultures may allow for a new cosmopolitanism that produces ever-changing, fluid identities, they do not give rise to an egalitarian ‘global village’ – an asymmetry between centre and periphery remains largely intact, albeit along new parameters. The essays collected in this volume offer readings of literary, theoretical, and filmic texts from the postcolonial world. These texts are read as attempts to articulate the global with the local from a perspective of immersion in the actual diversity of life-worlds, focusing on such issues as consumption, identity-politics, and modes of affiliation. In this sense, they are global fragments: locally refractured figurations of an experience of world-wide interconnectedness.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Contemporary Asian-Australian Identities — Hsu–Ming Teo’s Love and Vertigo / Russell West–Pavlov -- Understanding Departure — A Study of Select Pre-Migration Indian Female Subjectivities / Mala Pandurang -- Black, Asian, and Other British — Transcultural Literature and the Discreet Charm of Ethnicity / Frank Schulze–Engler -- Indian Diaspora Meets Indo-chic — Fragmentation, Fashion, and Resistance in Meera Syal’s Life Isn’t All Ha Ha Hee Hee / Mita Banerjee -- Bhangra Babes — ‘Masala’ Music and Questions of Identity and Integration in South Asian-British Women’s Writing / Christine Vogt–William -- Bhangra Babes — ‘Masala’ Music and Questions of Identity and Integration in South Asian-British Women’s Writing / Christine Vogt–William -- AIDS, Pornography, and Conspicuous Consumption — Media Strategies of an HIV/AIDS Prevention Campaign in South Africa / Ulrike Kistner -- The Global Bidding for Dorothy Gale’s Magical Shoes — Salman Rushdie’s “At the Auction of the Ruby Slippers” as a (Self-)Reflection on the Post-Frontier Predicament / Justyna Deszcz–Tryhubczak -- Imagining Indians — Subverting Global Media Politics in the Local Media / Kerstin Knopf -- Of Warriors, a Whalerider, and Venetians — Contemporary Māori Films / Dieter Riemenschneider -- Teaming Multitudes — Lagaan and the Nation in Globality / Dirk Wiemann -- “Blanched Bones, Mouldering Graves and Potent Spells” — White Constructions of Black Diasporic Rituals in Slave Culture / Kirsten Raupach -- Scotland as a Multifractured Postcolonial Go-Between? — Ambiguous Interfaces Between (Post-)Celticism, Gaelicness, Scottishness and Postcolonialism. / Silke Stroh -- Universal Matters; Universals Matter / Tabish Khair -- Local Knowledge – Global Resistance — Policies of a New Technological “Enlightenment” / Frank Lay -- Networks of the Media — Media Cultures, Connectivity and Globalization / Andreas Hepp -- At the Periphery of the Periphery — Children’s Literature, Global and Local / Emer O’Sullivan -- Dialect Representation versus Linguistic Stereotype in Literature — Three Examples from Indian South African English / Rajend Mesthrie -- Camfranglais — A Language with Several (Sur)Faces and Important Sociolinguistic Functions / Anne Schröder -- Henry Lawson’s “The Drover’s Wife” and the Australian Short Story / Liesel Hermes -- West Meets East / East Meets West? — Teaching William Sutcliffe’s Cult Novel Are You Experienced? (1997) / Laurenz Volkmann -- Read the Texts and Let Them Speak, Too — Teaching New Zealand Poetry in the Sixth Form / Claudia Duppé and Manfred Gantner -- Teaching the New South Africa — The Cartoon Strip Madam and Eve / Gisela Feurle -- Notes on Contributors.