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Global fissures : postcolonial fusions /

The essays in this volume examine the tensions between two major political and intellectual structures: the global and the postcolonial, charting the ways in which such tensions are constitutive of changing power relations between the individual, the nation-state and global forces. Contributors ask...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Joseph, Clara A. B., Wilson, Janet, 1948-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2006.
Colección:Cross/cultures ; 85.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Theorizing the diaspora / John C. Hawley
  • The price of silence : intellectual communication in the age of globalization / Robert Spencer
  • Is the world decentred? : a postcolonial perspective on globalization / Shaobo Xie
  • "World famous across Canada" : national identity in the global village / Cynthia Sugars
  • Ethics, aesthetics and the globalized other in Arundhati Roy's The god of small things / Chitra Sankaran
  • The elephant in the living-room : a postcolonial reading of Waiting for Godot / A. Clare Brandabur
  • On invasions, weeds, and wilderness : the Dutch imagination of globalization (thrice) / Isabel Hoving
  • Cosmopolitan readers and postcolonial identities / C.L. Innes
  • The fantasy of home / Mustapha Marrouchi
  • Macaulay to Microsoft : globalization and the Indian academy / Vijayasree Chaganti & Kanukolanuk Ravichandra
  • Creativity Inc. : globalizing the cultural imaginary in New Zealand / Jennifer Lawn
  • Riding the whale? : postcolonialism and globalization in Whale rider / Chris Prentice
  • Representing interconnection and cultural flow : towards reframing tourist experiences with new media / Martin Spaul & Amina Minhas
  • AnredoM ActpO or Aztec cameras : cultural hybridity and Latin American photography / Peter D. Osborne.