Global Fragments : (Dis)Orientation in the New World Order. Asnel Papers 10
Anke BARTELS (Editor), Dirk WIEMANN (Editor)
While the world seems to be getting ever smaller and globalization has become the ubiquitous buzz-word, regionalism and fragmentation is also abound. This might be due to the fact that, far from being the alleged production of cultural homogeneity, the global is constantly re-defined through the local. This book deals with global fragmentation.
Scholarly & Professional
1 online resource (378 pages).
9789042021822, 9042021829
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Global Fragments: An Introduction Glocal Identities: Mapping, Itineraries, MemoriesRussell WEST–PAVLOV: Contemporary Asian–Australian Identities: Hsu–Ming Teo’s Love and VertigoAnja SCHWARZ: Mapping (Un-)Australian Identities: ‘Territorial Disputes’ in Christos Tsiolkas’ LoadedMala PANDURANG: Understanding Departure: A Study of Select Pre-Migration Indian Female SubjectivitiesFrank SCHULZE–ENGLER: Black, Asian, and Other British: Transcultural Literature and the Discreet Charm of EthnicityConsuming Globality: Performance, Difference, DesireMita BANERJEE: Indian Diaspora Meets Indo-Chic: Fragmentation, Fashion, and Resistance in Meera Syal’s Life Isn’t All Ha Ha Hee HeeChristine VOGT–WILLIAM: Bhangra Babes: ‘Masala’ Music and Questions of Identity and Integration in South Asian-British Women’s WritingUlrike KISTNER: AIDS, Pornography, and Conspicuous Consumption: Media Strategies of an HIV/AIDS Prevention Campaign in South AfricaJustyna DESZCZ–TRYHUBCZAK: The Global Bidding for Dorothy Gale’s Magical Shoes: Salman Rushdie’s “At the Auction of the Ruby Slippers” as a (Self-) Reflection on the Post-Frontier PredicamentImagining Communities: Representation, Distortion, AffiliationKerstin KNOPF: Imagining Indians: Subverting Global Media Politics in the Local MediaDieter RIEMENSCHNEIDER: Of Warriors, a Whalerider, and Venetians: Contemporary Māori FilmsDirk WIEMANN: Teaming Multitudes: Lagaan and the Nation in GlobalityKirsten RAUPACH: “Blanched Bones, Mouldering Graves and Potent Spells”: White Constructions of Black Diasporic Rituals in Slave CultureSilke STROH: Scotland as a Multifractured Postcolonial Go-Between? Ambiguous Interfaces between (Post-)Celticism, Gaelicness, Scottishness and PostcolonialismConstructing Common Ground: Networks, Concepts, ImagesTabish KHAIR: Universal Matters; Universals MatterFrank LAY: Local Knowledge – Global Resistance: Policies of a New Technological “Enlightenment”Andreas HEPP: Networks of the Media: Media Cultures, Connectivity, and GlobalizationEmer O’SULLIVAN: At the Periphery of the Periphery: Children’s Literature, Global and LocalLocal Colour in Global EnglishRajend MESTHRIE: Dialect Representation versus Linguistic Stereotype in Literature: Three Examples from Indian South African EnglishAnne SCHRÖDER: Camfranglais: A Language with Several (Sur)Faces and Important Sociolinguistic FunctionsTeaching New English Literatures and CulturesLiesel HERMES: Henry Lawson’s “The Drover’s Wife” and the Australian Short StoryLaurenz VOLKMANN: West Meets East / East Meets West? Teaching William Sutcliffe’s Cult Novel Are You Experienced? (1997)Claudia DUPPÉ & Manfred GANTNER: Read the Texts and Let Them Speak, Too: Teaching New Zealand Poetry in the Sixth FormGisela FEURLE: Teaching the New South Africa: The Cartoon Strip Madam & Eve NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS