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Author(s): W. Gobel
ISBN(s): 9780415397971, 0415397979
Edition: 1
File Details: PDF, 4.15 MB
Year: 2006
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 0415397979
ISBN 13: 9780415397971
Author: W Gobel

Debates about the ‘Black Atlantic’ have alerted us to an experience of modernization that diverges from the dominant Western narratives of globalization and technological progress. This outstanding volume expands the concept of the Black Atlantic by reaching beyond the usual African-American focus of the field, presenting fresh perspectives on postcolonial experiences of technology and modernization. A team of renowned contributors come together in this volume in order to: redefine and expand ideas of Black Atlantic challenge unified concepts of modernization from a postcolonial perspective question fashionable concepts of the transnational by returning to the local and the national offer new approaches to cross-cultural mechanisms of exchange explore utopian uses of technology in the postcolonial sphere. Exploring a variety of national, diasporan and transnational counternarratives to Western modernization, Beyond the Black Atlantic makes a valuable contribution to the fields of postcolonial, literary and cultural studies.

Beyond The Black Atlantic Relocating Modernization and Technology 1st Table of contents:

Part I: Negotiating African modernities
1 The presence of the past in peripheral modernities
Notes
Bibliography
2 Black modernity, nationalism and transnationalism: The challenge of black South African poetry
Reconfiguring black music
Temporalities of crisis
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
3 Failure to connect – resistant modernities at national crossroads: Solomon Plaatje and Mohandas Gandhi
Diptych
Cross-nationalist contexts
Solomon Plaatje and Mohandas Gandhi
The lack of contact
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
4 Township modernism
The courtesan’s gaze
The view from the township
Notes
Bibliography
Part II: Caribbean (in)versions of modernity
5 Ulysses and the shape-shifter: Caribbean modernity in Pauline Melville’s writings
Prelude
Modernity: capitalizing on the unforeseen
Criss-crossing the Atlantic: (dis-)locating modernity
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
6 V.S. Naipaul: The limitations of transnationalism and technological progress
Notes
Bibliography
Part III: Colonial creations of the West
7 The technology of publicity in the Atlantic semi-peripheries: Benjamin Franklin, modernity, and the Nigerian slave trade
Technology and modernity’s systematicity
Benjamin Franklin and the paradox of the public sphere
Atlantic slavery and the African consumer revolution
Notes
Bibliography
8 Spectrality’s secret sharers: Occultism as (post)colonial affect
Notes
Bibliography
Part IV: Peripheral interpretations of technology
9 Transitionality at home and abroad: Some examples from India and its virtual diaspora
Introduction
Brief outline of purpose and method
Cyberspace and CMC
Official sites
Opinion polls
BBs and chat rooms
Case-study of BBS postings
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Internet sources
10 Technologies in Hanif Kureishi’s ‘The Body’
Identity as problem
On art, biotechnology and race
Dreaming and scheming
Notes
Bibliography
11 Travels in technotopia: Modernization and technology in postcolonial utopian and dystopian writing
Modern technology and the scramble for national self-definition
‘Orwellian nemesis’ and the postcolonial text
The desire for modernization: travels in postcolonial technotopia
Utopia and the global technological flow

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