Other Globes

Simon Ferdinand is Lecturer in Literary and Cultural Analysis at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. His book Mapping Beyond Measure: Art, Cartography and the Space of Global Modernity is forthcoming. Irene Villaescusa-Illán is Visiting Researcher at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.Esther Peeren is Professor of Cultural Analysis at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

• 1. Introduction - Other Globes: Past and Peripheral Imaginations of Globalization.- 2. Protest from the Margins: Emerging Global Networks in the Early Sixteenth Century and their German Detractors.- 3. Being in the Globe: Heironymus Bosch's The Garden of Earthly Delights at the Fringes of Modern Globalism.- 4. The Nature of the Historical: Forming Worlds, Resisting the Temptaiton.- 5. H.G. Wells and Planteary Prose.- 6. Visions of Global Modernity in Hispano-Filipino Literature.- 7. Global Africa.-8. World-Imagining from Below.- 9. Novelization in Decolonization, or, Postcolonialism Reconsidered.- 10. Ethnoplanetarity: Contemporaneity and Scale in Patricio Guzmán's Nostalgia de la luz and El botón de nácar.- 11. Weirding Earth: Reimagining the Global through Speculative Cartographies in Literature, Art, and Music.- 12. Planetary Lovers: On Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephen's Water Makes Us Wet.- 13. A World in Miniatures: Judith Schalansky's Atlas of Remote Islands.- 14. The End-of-the-World as World System.