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    Territories and Trajectories
    Cultures in Circulation

    Diana Sorensen (Edited by), Homi K. Bhabha (Introduction by)

    9780822370260

    Paperback / softback, published 8 June 2018

    272 pages, 23 illustrations
    22.9 x 15.2 x 1.4 cm, 0.454 kg

    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. This model eschews a static, geographically bounded notion of cultural origins and authenticity, privileging instead a mobility of culture that shapes and is shaped by geographic spaces. Reading a diverse array of texts and objects, from Ethiopian song and ancient Chinese travel writing to Japanese literature and aerial and nautical images of the Indian Ocean, the contributors decenter national borders to examine global flows of culture and the relationship between thinking at transnational and local scales. Throughout, they make a case for methods of inquiry that encourage innovative understandings of borders, oceans, and territories and that transgress disciplinary divides.

    Contributors. Homi Bhabha, Jacqueline Bhabha, Lindsay Bremner, Finbarr Barry Flood, Rosario Hubert, Alina Payne, Kay Kaufman Shelemay, Shu-mei Shih, Diana Sorensen, Karen Thornber, Xiaofei Tian

    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
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