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Vernacular Worlds, Cosmopolitan Imagination (Hardcover)
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Vernacular Worlds, Cosmopolitan Imagination (Hardcover)
Series: Cross/Cultures, 181
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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.
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