Locating Transnational Ideals

Herausgeber: Goebel, Walter; Schabio, Saskia

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Produktbeschreibung

This volume defines versions of the transnational in their historical and cultural specificity. By "locating," the contributors contextualize historical and contemporary understandings of the fluid term "transnational," which vary in relation to the disciplines involved. This kind of historical and geographical "locating" implicitly turns against forms of contemporary transnational euphoria which, inspired by poststructural models of all-encompassing semiospheres, on the one hand, and by visions of the utopian communicative potential of new media like the internet, on the other, see national and ethnic paradigms as easily superseded by transnational agendas. By differentiating between various forms of transnational ideals and ideas in historical and geographical perspective since the Renaissance, the contributors aim to rediscover distinctions -- for instance between transnationalisms and cosmopolitanisms -- which neo-liberal transnational euphoria has tended to erase.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Dezember 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 573g
• ISBN-13: 9780415871365
• ISBN-10: 0415871360
• Artikelnr.: 27871918

Autorenporträt

Walter Goebel is Professor of Literature at the University of Stuttgart. Saskia Schabio is Professor of Literature at the University of Stuttgart.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments Introduction: Locating Transnational Ideals, Walter Goebel
and Saskia Schabio Part I: Defining the Transnational and the Cosmopolitan
1Globalization, Transnation and Utopia, Bill Ashcroft 2: Politics or
Ethics? On Cosmopolitanism, Timothy Brennan 3: The Ethics of a Critical
Cosmopolitanism for the Twenty-First Century, Heinz Antor 4: Toward a
Philosophy of Transnationalism, Laura Doyle 5: Toward a Non-Cynical
Universalism, Keya Ganguly Part II: Historicizing the Transnational and the
Cosmopolitan 6: The Fascination of 'Living Together in a Civilized Way' or
Nations and Cosmopolitanism in More's Utopia (1516) and Ribeiro's Wild
Utopia (1982), Hans Ulrich Seeber 7: Cultural Nationalism Reconsidered:
Ossian in Postcolonial Perspectives, Tobias Döring 8: Hard and Soft
Cosmopolitanism: The Eighteenth Century and After, Walter Goebel 9:
Exhibiting Difference: The Museum as a Guide to Spectatorship, Renate
Brosch 10: The First Colonial Art Museum and Transnationalism in the Visual
Arts: Saint-Denis, La Réunion, 1912, Bärbel Küster Part III: Redefining
Transnationalism(S) Vs. International Commodification 11: Remembering
Africa: Africa as the Sign of the Transnational in Black-British Writing,
Mpalive Msiska 12: The Great Game: The Geopolitics of Secret Knowledge,
Gauri Viswanathan 13: The Transnational Passage of the Spanish Word
cimarrón, Elyette Benjamin-Labarthe 14: The Border as Third Space: Between
Colonial Gaze and Transnational Dislocation, Noha Hamdy 15: Cracked
Communicating Vessels: Sexuality, Body Modification, and Flesh in the West
and the 'non West', Chantal Zabus 16: Globalizing Jane Austen: An Analysis
of Gurinder Chadha's Pride and Prejudice Adaptation Bride and Prejudice,
Sarah Säckel List of Contributors