Cultural mobility : a manifesto / Stephen Greenblatt ... [and others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Greenblatt, Stephen, 1943-

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Culture.

Social change.

Physical Description:

x, 271 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.

Summary:

"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"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

1 Cultural mobility: an introduction / Stephen Greeblatt 1

2 "The Wheel of Torments" : mobility and redemption in Portuguese colonial India (sixteenth century) / Ines G. Županov 24

3 Theatrical mobility / Stephen Greenblatt 75

4 World literature beyond Goethe / Reinhard Meyer Kalkus 96

5 Cultural mobility between Boston and Berlin: how Germans have read and reread narratives of American slavery / Heike Paul 122

6 Struggling for mobility: migration, tourism, and cultural authority in contemporary China / Pl̀ Nyiri 172

7 Performativity and mobility: Middle Eastern traditions on the move / Friederikem Pannewick 215

8 A mobility studies manifesto / Stephen Greenblatt 250.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9780521863568

0521863562

OCLC:

436866896

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