Sorensen Territories and Trajectories

Cultures in Circulation
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-0-8223-7156-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 312 Seiten

The contributors to Territories and Trajectories propose a model of cultural production and transmission based on the global diffusion, circulation, and exchange of people, things, and ideas across time and space.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sorensen, Diana

Weitere Mitwirkende

Bhabha, Homi K.

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Semiotik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments vii
Introduction: On Disciplines and Destinations / Homi K. Bhabha 1
Editor's Introduction: Alternative Geographic Mappings for the Twenty-First Century / Diana Sorensen 13
Part I. Travel and Transmission
1. The Diplomacy of Exoticism: Brazilian Accounts of the Global South / Rosario Hubert 35
2. Hearing Geography in Motion: Processes of the Musical Imagination in Diaspora / Kay Kaufman Shelemay 47
3. A Chinese Fan in Sri Lanka and the Transport of Writing / Xiaofei Tian 68
Part II. Portable Materialities and Crossings
4. The Portability of Art: A Prologomena to Art and Architecture on the Move / Alina Payne 91
5. Genealogies of Whitewash: "Muhammedan Churches," Reformation Polemics, and the Aesthetics of Modernism / Finbarr Barry Flood 110
6. Mobility and Material Culture: A Case Study / Diana Sorensen 151
Part III. Worlding, Rights, and Regimes of Representation
7. World Literature and the Health Humanities: Translingual Encounters with Brain Disorders / Karen Thornber 163
8. In But Not of Europe? The Precarious Rights of Roma in the European Union / Jacqueline Bhabha 185
9. From World History to World Art: Reflections on New Geographies of Feminist Art / Shu-Mei Shih 201
Part IV. Crosscurrents and Displacements
10. Technologies of Uncertainty in the Search for Flight MH370 / Lindsay Bremner 223
Contributors 257
Index 261

Über Autor(innen)

Diana Sorensen is James F. Rothenberg Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and of Comparative Literature at Harvard University, as well as the author of A Turbulent Decade Remembered: Scenes from the Latin American Sixties.

Homi K. Bhabha is Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University.