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
• 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 throug...

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.