Vernacular worlds, cosmopolitan imagination

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Label

Vernacular worlds, cosmopolitan imagination

Statement of responsibility

edited by Stephanos Stephanides, Stavros S. Karayanni

Contributor

• Karayanni, Stavros Stavrou, 1965-
• Stephanides, Stephanos

Editor

• Karayanni, Stavros Stavrou, 1965-
• Stephanides, Stephanos

Subject

• Cosmopolitanism in literature
• Cosmopolitanism in literature
• Globalization in literature
• Globalization in literature
• Politics and culture
• Politics and culture
• Postcolonialism in literature
• Postcolonialism in literature

Language

eng

Summary

"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 mediations of the imagination. Some essays are based on community-based fieldwork, while all encompass an affective immersion in the places we inhabit, and the claims these make on the body's intelligibility. The authors consider the role of artists, writers, and literary scholars as cultural actors in a variety of settings, grassroots, regional, trans-regional, and global. Topics include: the role of social and cultural activism; the problematic dimensions of national belonging; the plurality of knowledge-systems and inter-language environ-mental learning in South Africa; the vernacular imagination in Papua New Guinea Anglophone fiction; pulp fiction and chick lit in India; transformative artistic motifs of Australia's nomadic Tiwi community; life writing as a reconfiguring of postcolonial or cosmopolitan paradigms; southern African supernatural belief-systems and the malign magic of the global economy; Canadian First Nations literature read against the struggle for self-determination by India's castes and scheduled tribes; feral animals in relation to the indigenous exotic; and the imbrication of the vernacular, national, colonial, and cosmopolitan in perceptions of homecoming in the eastern Mediterranean. The collection as a whole thus provides manifestations of poesis in relation to theory and praxis and articulates perspectives that expand, challenge, strengthen, and renew the potential for growth in contemporary world literature and culture." -- Back cover

Member of

• Cross/cultures, 181

Cataloging source

ERASA

Dewey number

810/820

Index

index present

LC call number

PN56.C683

LC item number

V47 2015

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

Cross/cultures,

Series volume

v. 181