Beyond the Black Atlantic (eBook, ePUB)

Relocating Modernization and Technology
Redaktion: Goebel, Walter; Schabio, Saskia

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Exploring one of the hottest topics in humanities at the moment - diaspora - this controversial volume challenges prominent theoretical frameworks of Paul Gilroy to redefine and expand ideas of Black Atlantic.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Juli 2006
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134151585
• Artikelnr.: 38260231

Autorenporträt

Walter Goebel is Professor of English and American Studies at the University of Stuttgart. He has published in the fields of the modern African-American novel, and postcolonial and gender studies. Saskia Schabio is also based at the University of Stuttgart and is working on studies of postcolonial aesthetics and early modern colonial encounters.
Editors:
Walter Goebel and Saskia Schabio
Contributors:
Benita Parry
Laura Chrisman
Elleke Boehmer
Ian Baucom
Saskia Schabio
Walter Goebel
Stephen Shapiro
Gauri Viswanathan
Martina Gosh-Schellhorn
Annette Buhler-Dietrich
Ralf Pordzik
University of Stuttgart, Germany
University of Stuttgart, Germany

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements Introduction Negotiating African Modernities The Presence
of the Past in Peripheral Modernities. Black Modernity, Nationalism and
Transnationalism: The Challenge of Black South African Poetry. Failure to
Connect - Resistant Modernities at National Crossroads: Solomon Plaatje and
Mohandas Gandhi. Township Modernism Caribbean (in)Versions of Modernity.
Ulysses and the Shape-Shifter: Caribbean Modernity in Pauline Melville's
Writings. V.S. Naipaul: The Limitations of Transnationalism and
Technological Progress. Colonial Creations of the West The Technology of
Publicity in the Atlantic Semi-Peripheries: Benjamin Franklin, Modernity,
and the Nigerian Slave Trade. Spectrality's Secret Sharers: Occultism as
(Post)Colonial Affect. Peripheral Interpretations of Technology.
Transitionality at Home and Abroad: Some Examples from India and its
Virtual Diaspora. Technologies in Hanif Kureishi's 'The Body'. Travels in
Technotopia: Modernization and Technology in Postcolonial Utopian and
Dystopian Writing