The contributors to Territories and Trajectories propose a model of cultural production and transmission based on the global diffusion, circulation, and exchange of people, things, and ideas across time and space. This model eschews a static, geographically bounded notion of cultural origins and authenticity, privileging instead a mobility of culture that shapes and is shaped by geographic spaces. Reading a diverse array of texts and objects, from Ethiopian song and ancient Chinese travel writing to Japanese literature and aerial and nautical images of the Indian Ocean, the contributors decenter national borders to examine global flows of culture and the relationship between thinking at transnational and local scales. Throughout, they make a case for methods of inquiry that encourage innovative understandings of borders, oceans, and territories and that transgress disciplinary divides.
Contributors. Homi Bhabha, Jacqueline Bhabha, Lindsay Bremner, Finbarr Barry Flood, Rosario Hubert, Alina Payne, Kay Kaufman Shelemay, Shu-mei Shih, Diana Sorensen, Karen Thornber, Xiaofei Tian
- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: On Disciplines and Destinations
- Editor’s Introduction: Alternative Geographic Mappings for the Twenty-First Century
- Part I. Travel and Transmission
- 1. The Diplomacy of Exoticism: Brazilian Accounts of the Global South
- 2. Hearing Geography in Motion: Processes of the Musical Imagination in Diaspora
- 3. A Chinese Fan in Sri Lanka and the Transport of Writing
- Part II. Portable Materialities and Crossings
- 4. The Portability of Art: Prolegomena to Art and Architecture on the Move
- 5. Genealogies of Whitewash: “Muhammedan Churches,” Reformation Polemics, and the Aesthetics of Modernism
- 6. Mobility and Material Culture: A Case Study
- Part III. Worlding, Rights, and Regimes of Representation
- 7. World Literature and the Health Humanities: Translingual Encounters with Brain Disorders
- 8. In But Not of Europe? The Precarious Rights of Roma in the European Union
- 9. From World History to World Art: Reflections on New Geographies of Feminist Art
- Part IV. Crosscurrents and Displacements
- 10. Technologies of Uncertainty in the Search for Flight MH370
- Contributors
- Index
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