Beyond the Black Atlantic (eBook, ePUB)

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

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Debates about the 'Black Atlantic' have alerted us to an experience of modernization that diverges from the dominant Western narratives of globalization and technological progress. This outstanding 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. A team of renowned contributors come together in this volume in order to:

• redefine and expand ideas of Black Atlantic
• challenge unified concepts of modernization from a postcolonial perspective
• question fashionable concepts of the transnational by returning to the local and the national
• offer new approaches to cross-cultural mechanisms of exchange
• explore utopian uses of technology in the postcolonial sphere.

Exploring a variety of national, diasporan and transnational counternarratives to Western modernization, Beyond the Black Atlantic makes a valuable contribution to the fields of postcolonial, literary and cultural studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• 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