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Transnational culture, transnational identity : the politics and ethics of global culture exchange / Maria Koundoura.

Author/creator Koundoura, Maria
Format Book and Print
Publication InfoLondon : I.B. Tauris, 2012.
Descriptionxiii, 204 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Subject(s)
Series International library of cultural studies ; 22
International library of cultural studies ; 22. ^A797997
Contents Machine generated contents note: 1. The Spaces of Memory in Transnational Culture -- 2. Of Dreams and Reality: The Politics in Transnational Aesthetics -- 3. Speaking in Tongues: The Grammar of Transnational Capital and the Experience of Language -- 4. Rethinking Rights and the Vision of Cultures "to Come" -- 5. Reading Lessons: A Writing of Transnational Space -- 6. On Transnational Literacy or, Notes from a Modern Poetics -- 7. Impossible Spaces/Familiar Places: The Discourse of Nationalism in the Language of the Transnational.
Abstract Globalization, it seems, either holds the promise of new horizons and new worlds, or trammels local cultures and produces uniformity. Here, Maria Koundoura strikes a singular path between these divergent views and maps the full terrain of our contemporary culture landscape. Reading world literature and engaging with contemporary critical methodologies, she explores what she calls transnational visions of language and culture, and analyses the politics of identity, representation, and cultural expression. She thus presents a history of the aesthetic of our moment in modernity, and situates that moment in the economics of the global culture market and the ethics of cultural translation. Offering a model for addressing key questions of contemporary culture, identity, and globalization, this book will be invaluable for all those interested in cultural and postcolonial studies, diaspora, and globalization studies, as well as world literature.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [179]-197) and index.
LCCN 2012537018
ISBN9781848857636 (hbk.)
ISBN1848857632 (hbk.)

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