Authors:Kathleen Gyssels, Maggie Ann Bowers, Isabel Hoving,
Publisher: Editions Rodopi B.V.
Keywords: thamyris, amp, intersecting, place, race, sex, practices, interferences, newness, intercultural, convergences
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2001-12-01
List price: $66.00
ISBN-10: 9042015381
ISBN-13: 9789042015388

How does one imagine plurality? How does one find new strategies for writing diversity and polyphony? How does one read the most challenging creative and critical works of the present time? This bi-lingual volume of twelve English and eight French papers proposes to breach linguistic critical frontiers by placing careful analysis of texts from different language traditions in a multi-lingual and multi-cultural dialogue. In this collection of theoretically and politically aware close readings of contemporary cultural production, the focus of analysis rests on the multiple and complex global

Author: DASGUPTA; Sudeep (Ed.)DASGUPTA; Sudeep; Esther Pe
Publisher: Editions Rodopi
Keywords: thamyris, intersecting, place, sex, race, critique, transnational, modernity, culture, constellations
Number of Pages: 181
Published: 2007-04-09
List price: $48.60
ISBN-10: 9042021195
ISBN-13: 9789042021198

In the wake of proliferating discourses around globalisation and culture, some central questions around cultural politics have acquired a commonsensical and hegemonic character in contemporary intellectual discourse. The politics of difference, the possibilities of hybridity and the potential of multiple liminalities frame much discussion around the transnational dimensions of culture and post-identity politics. In this volume, the economic, political and social consequences of the focus on culture in contemporary theories of globalization are analysed around the disparate fields of architec