Cultural Mobility

Greenblatt, Stephen [u.a.]:
Cultural Mobility : a manifesto / Stephen Greenblatt, with Ines G. Županov, Reinhard Meyer-Kalkus, Heike Paul, Pál Nyíri, and Friederike Pannewick. - Cambridge : Cambridge Univerversity Press, 2010 [erschienen: 2009]. - x, 271 S. : Ill.
ISBN 978-0-521-86356-8 (Hardback)
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ISBN 978-0-521-68220-6 (Paperback)
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DDC: 306.01

Beschreibung
Cultural Mobility is a blueprint and a model for understanding the patterns of meaning that human societies create. Drawn from a wide range of disciplines, the essays collected here under the distinguished editorial guidance of Stephen Greenblatt share the conviction that cultures, even traditional cultures, are rarely stable or fixed. Radical mobility is not a phenomenon of the twenty-first century alone, but is a key constituent element of human life in virtually all periods. Yet academic accounts of culture tend to operate on exactly the opposite assumption and to celebrate what they imagine to be rooted or whole or undamaged. To grasp the shaping power of colonization, exile, emigration, wandering, contamination, and unexpected, random events, along with the fierce compulsions of greed, longing, and restlessness, cultural analysis needs to operate with a new set of principles. An international group of authors spells out these principles and puts them into practice. [Verlagsinformation]

Inhalt
List of authors. vii
List of illustrations. viii
Acknowledgments. ix
1. Stephen Greenblatt: Cultural mobility: an introduction. 1
2. Ines G. Županov: "The Wheel of Torments": mobility and redemption in Portuguese colonial India (sixteenth century). 24
3. Stephen Greenblatt: Theatrical mobility. 75
4. Reinhard Meyer-Kalkus: World literature beyond Goethe. 96
5. Heike Paul: Cultural mobility between Boston and Berlin: how Germans have read and reread narratives of American slavery. 122
6. Pál Nyíri: Struggling for mobility: migration, tourism, and cultural authority in contemporary China. 172
7. Friederike Pannewick: Performativity and mobility: Middle Eastern traditions on the move. 215
8. Stephen Greenblatt: A mobility studies manifesto. 250
Index. 254

Autoren
STEPHEN GREENBLATT, Harvard University
INES G. ŽUPANOV, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, Paris. Homepage.

Quellen: Cambridge University Press; Amazon; WorldCat.