Global Fragments

(Dis)Orientation in the New World Order

Inbunden, Engelska, 2007

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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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2007-01-01
Mått155 x 235 x 29 mm
Vikt758 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieASNEL Papers
Antal sidor362
FörlagBrill
ISBN9789042021822

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ANKE BARTELS and DIRK WIEMANN teach English Literature and Cultural Studies at the University of Magdeburg.CONTRIBUTORS: Mita Banerjee, Justyna Deszcz–Trybhubczak, Gisela Feurle, Manfred Gantner, Andreas Hepp, Liesel Hermes, Tabish Khair, Ulrike Kistner, Kerstin Knopf, Frank Lay, Rajend Mesthrie, Emer O’Sullivan, Mala Pandurang, Kirsten Raupach, Dieter Riemenschneider, Anne Schröder, Frank Schulze–Engler, Anja Schwarz, Silke Stroh, Christine Vogt–William, Laurenz Volkmann, Russell West–Pavlov, Dirk Wiemann.

Global Fragments: An Introduction Glocal Identities: Mapping, Itineraries, MemoriesRussell WEST–PAVLOV: Contemporary Asian–Australian Identities: Hsu–Ming Teo’s Love and VertigoAnja SCHWARZ: Mapping (Un-)Australian Identities: ‘Territorial Disputes’ in Christos Tsiolkas’ LoadedMala PANDURANG: Understanding Departure: A Study of Select Pre-Migration Indian Female SubjectivitiesFrank SCHULZE–ENGLER: Black, Asian, and Other British: Transcultural Literature and the Discreet Charm of EthnicityConsuming Globality: Performance, Difference, DesireMita BANERJEE: Indian Diaspora Meets Indo-Chic: Fragmentation, Fashion, and Resistance in Meera Syal’s Life Isn’t All Ha Ha Hee HeeChristine VOGT–WILLIAM: Bhangra Babes: ‘Masala’ Music and Questions of Identity and Integration in South Asian-British Women’s WritingUlrike KISTNER: AIDS, Pornography, and Conspicuous Consumption: Media Strategies of an HIV/AIDS Prevention Campaign in South AfricaJustyna DESZCZ–TRYHUBCZAK: 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 PredicamentImagining Communities: Representation, Distortion, AffiliationKerstin KNOPF: Imagining Indians: Subverting Global Media Politics in the Local MediaDieter RIEMENSCHNEIDER: Of Warriors, a Whalerider, and Venetians: Contemporary Māori FilmsDirk WIEMANN: Teaming Multitudes: Lagaan and the Nation in GlobalityKirsten RAUPACH: “Blanched Bones, Mouldering Graves and Potent Spells”: White Constructions of Black Diasporic Rituals in Slave CultureSilke STROH: Scotland as a Multifractured Postcolonial Go-Between? Ambiguous Interfaces between (Post-)Celticism, Gaelicness, Scottishness and PostcolonialismConstructing Common Ground: Networks, Concepts, ImagesTabish KHAIR: Universal Matters; Universals MatterFrank LAY: Local Knowledge – Global Resistance: Policies of a New Technological “Enlightenment”Andreas HEPP: Networks of the Media: Media Cultures, Connectivity, and GlobalizationEmer O’SULLIVAN: At the Periphery of the Periphery: Children’s Literature, Global and LocalLocal Colour in Global EnglishRajend MESTHRIE: Dialect Representation versus Linguistic Stereotype in Literature: Three Examples from Indian South African EnglishAnne SCHRÖDER: Camfranglais: A Language with Several (Sur)Faces and Important Sociolinguistic FunctionsTeaching New English Literatures and CulturesLiesel HERMES: Henry Lawson’s “The Drover’s Wife” and the Australian Short StoryLaurenz VOLKMANN: West Meets East / East Meets West? Teaching William Sutcliffe’s Cult Novel Are You Experienced? (1997)Claudia DUPPÉ & Manfred GANTNER: Read the Texts and Let Them Speak, Too: Teaching New Zealand Poetry in the Sixth FormGisela FEURLE: Teaching the New South Africa: The Cartoon Strip Madam & Eve NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS