The sites from which postcolonial cultural articulations develop
and the sites at which they are received have undergone profound
transformations within the last decades. This book traces the
accelerating emergence of cultural crossovers and overlaps in a
global perspective and through a variety of disciplinary
approaches. It starts from the premise that after the 'spatial
turn' human action and cultural representations can no longer be
grasped as firmly located in or clearly demarcated by territorial
entities. The collection of essays investigates postcolonial
articulations of various genres and media in their spatiality and
locatedness while envisaging acts of location as dynamic cultural
processes. It explores the ways in which critical spatial thinking
can be made productive: Testing the uses and limitations of
'translocation' as an open exploratory model for a critically
spatialized postcolonial studies, it covers a wide range of
cultural expressions from the anglophone world and beyond -
literature, film, TV, photography and other forms of visual art,
philosophy, historical memory, and tourism. The extensive
introductory chapter charts various facets of spatial thinking from
a variety of disciplines, and critically discusses their
implications for postcolonial studies. The contributors' essays
range from theoretical interventions into the critical routines of
postcolonial criticism to case studies of specific cultural texts,
objects, and events reflecting temporal and spatial, material and
intellectual, physical and spiritual mobility. What emerges is a
fascinating survey of the multiple directions postcolonial
translocations can take in the future. This book is aimed at
students and scholars of postcolonial literary and cultural
studies, diaspora studies, migration studies, transnational
studies, globalisation studies, critical space studies, urban
studies, film studies, media studies, art history, philosophy,
history, and anthropology. Contributors: Diana Brydon, Lars
Eckstein, Paloma Fresno-Calleja, Lucia Kramer, Gesa Mackenthun,
Thomas Martinek, Sandra Meyer, Therese-M. Meyer, Marga Munkelt,
Lynda Ng, Claudia Perner, Katharina Rennhak, Gundo Rial y Costas,
Markus Schmitz, Mark Stein, Silke Stroh, Kathy-Ann Tan, Petra
Tournay-Theodotou, Daria Tunca, Jessica Voges, Roland Walter, Dirk
Wiemann.
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