Format:
1 online resource (379 pages)
ISBN:
9789401204224
Series Statement:
ASNEL Papers v.v. 90
Content:
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.
Content:
Intro -- Global Fragments -- Contents -- GLOBAL FRAGMENTS: AN INTRODUCTION -- GLOCAL IDENTITIES: MAPPING, ITINERARIES, MEMORIES -- Contemporary Asian-Australian Identities- Hsu-Ming Teo's Love and Vertigo -- Mapping (Un-)Australian Identities- 'Territorial Disputes' in Christos Tsiolkas' Loaded -- Understanding Departure- A Study of Select Pre-Migration Indian Female Subjectivities -- Black, Asian, and Other British- Transcultural Literature and the Discreet Charm of Ethnicity -- CONSUMING GLOBALITY: PERFORMANCE, DIFFERENCE, DESIRE -- Indian Diaspora Meets Indo-Chic: Fragmentation, Fashion, and Resistance in Meera Syal's Life Isn't All Ha Ha Hee Hee -- Bhangra Babes: 'Masala' Music and Questions of Identity and Integration in South Asian-British Women's Writing -- AIDS, Pornography, and Conspicuous Consumption- Media Strategies of an HIV/AIDS Prevention Campaign in South Africa -- The Global Biddingfor Dorothy Gale's Magical Shoes- Salman Rushdie's "At the Auction of the Ruby Slippers" as a (Self-)Reflection on the Post-Frontier Predicament -- IMAGINING COMMUNITIES: REPRESENTATION, DISTORTION, AFFILIATION -- Imagining Indians: Subverting Global Media Politics in the Local Media -- Of Warriors, a Whalerider, and Venetians: Contemporary Māori Films -- Teaming Multitudes: Lagaan and the Nation in Globality -- "Blanched Bones, Mouldering Graves and Potent Spells": White Constructions of Black Diasporic Rituals in Slave Culture -- Scotland as a Multifractured Postcolonial Go-Between? Ambiguous Interfaces between (Post-)Celticism, Gaelicness, Scottishness and Postcolonialism -- CONSTRUCTING COMMON GROUND: NETWORKS, CONCEPTS, IMAGES -- Universal Matters -- Universals Matter -- Local Knowledge - Global Resistance -- Networks of the Media: Media Cultures, Connectivity, and Globalization.
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ISBN 9789042021822
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9789042021822
Language:
English
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