Can transnationalism be separated from capitalist globalization?
Can an artist create cultural space and rethink the nation-state
simultaneously? In Imaginary States, Peter Hitchcock explores such
questions to invigorate the analysis of cultural transnationalism.
Juxtaposing the macroeconomic realities of commodities with the
creations of cultural workers, Hitchcock offers case studies of
Nike and the coffee industry alongside examinations of writings by
the Algerian feminist Assia Djebar and the Caribbean writers Edward
Glissant, Kamau Brathwaite, and Maryse Conde. The stark contrast of
literary examples of cultural transnationalism with discussions of
commodity circulation attempts to complicate the relationship
between the aesthetic and the economic.
Blocking our imagination, Hitchcock argues, is the desire to
produce cultural diversity under the terms of a global economy. In
believing that to have one we must pursue the other, we flatten
difference, erase complexity, and fail to grasp the imaginaries at
stake. Hitchcock's invocation of the imagination allows for a
deeper understanding of transnational "states" -- whether states of
being, economic states, or nation-states. Proffering that the
crisis of globalization is a crisis of the imagination, he urges
that cultural transnationalism not be feared or suppressed but
approached as a way to imagine difference globally.
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