Beyond the Black Atlantic : relocating modernization and technology

Beyond the Black Atlantic relocating modernization and technology

Introduction : relocating modernization and technology1. The presence of the past in peripheral modernities / Benita Parry -- 2. Black modernity, nationalism and transnationalism : the challenge of black South African poetry / Laura Chrisman -- 3. Failure to connect -- resistant modernities at natio...

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Weitere Verfasser: Goebel, Walter (BerichterstatterIn), Schabio, Saskia (HerausgeberIn), Göbel, Walter (HerausgeberIn), Baucom, Ian (BerichterstatterIn)
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Veröffentlicht: London, New York, NY Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group 2006
Ausgabe:1. publ.
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Globalization in literature > Technology in literature > Postcolonialism in literature > Literature, Modern > Black authors > Minority authors > Technology and civilization > Aufsatzsammlung > Schwarze > Atlantischer Raum > Neue Technologie > Postkoloniale Literatur > Literatur > Moderne
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Zusammenfassung:Introduction : relocating modernization and technology1. The presence of the past in peripheral modernities / Benita Parry -- 2. Black modernity, nationalism and transnationalism : the challenge of black South African poetry / Laura Chrisman -- 3. Failure to connect -- resistant modernities at national crossroads : Solomon Plaatje and Mohandas Gandhi / Elleke Boehmer -- 4. Township modernism / Ian Baucom -- 5. Ulysses and the shape-shifter : Caribbean modernity in Pauline Melville's writings / Saskia Schabio -- 6. V.S. Naipaul : the limitations of transnationalism and technological progress / Walter Goebel -- 7. The technology of publicity in the Atlantic semi-peripheries : Benjamin Franklin, modernity, and the Nigerian slave trade / Stephen Shapiro -- 8. Spectrality's secret sharers : occultism as (post)colonial affect / Gauri Viswanathan -- 9. Transitionality at home and abroad : some examples from India and its virtual diaspora / Martina Ghosh-Schellhorn -- 10. Technologies in Hanif Kureishi's 'The body' / Annette Buhler-Dietrich -- 11. Travels in technotopia : modernization and technology in postcolonial utopian and dystopian writing / Ralph Pordzik.
This volume expands the concept of the Black Atlantic by reaching beyond the usual African-American focus of the field, presenting fresh perspectives on postcolonial experiences of technology and modernization. It explores a variety of national, diasporan and transnational counternarratives to Western modernization
This volume expands the concept of the Black Atlantic by reaching beyond the usual African-American focus of the field, presenting fresh perspectives on postcolonial experiences of technology and modernization. It explores a variety of national, diasporan and transnational counternarratives to Western modernization
Beschreibung:IX, 210 S
ISBN:0415397979
0-415-39797-9
0415397987
0-415-39798-7
9780415397971
978-0-415-39797-1
9780415397988
978-0-415-39798-8