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Vernacular worlds, cosmopolitan imagination /
"This collection addresses broad questions of ethics and aesthetics in the framework of vernacular cosmopolitanism. With a common anthropological focus, the essays map literary and artistic practices involving cross-cultural transactions shaped by social forces, institutions, and the multiple m...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden :
Brill/Rodopi,
[2015]
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| Colección: | Cross/cultures ;
181. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Vernacular Worlds, Cosmopolitan Imagination; Copyright; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Vernacular Worlds, Cosmopolitan Imagination: The Intimate Estrangement of Homecoming; Doing the Right Thing: ACLALS, Social Change, and Cultural Activism; "There's a Meat Down There": An Essay on English and the Environment in Africa; Vernacular Patterns in Flux: Mirroring Change in an Aboriginal Workshop, Tiwi Designs, Northern Australia; Wealth-Giving Mermaid Women and the Malign Magic of the Market: Contemporary Oral Accounts of the South African mamlambo.
- "Travelling Knowledges": 'Practising' Indigenous Literatures in the Indian UniversityWhat About Shobhaa Dé? Indian Pulp Fiction Meets Indian Writing in English; "Ghem pona wai?": Vernacular Imaginations in Contemporary Papua New Guinea Fiction; Samuel Beckett and J.M. Coetzee: Narrative Power and the Postcolonial; Language and Perception: Reinstating the Individual in Postcolonial Literary Studies; Indigenous Exotic: Cosmopolitan Dingoes and Brumbies; Notes on Contributors; Index.