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BL
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1001560
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b755930
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Beyond the Black Atlantic : : relocating modernization and technology /\ edited by Walter Goebel and Saskia Schabio.
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| Publication Statement
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London ;New York :: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group,, 2006.
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ix, 210 pages ;; 23 cm
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| ISBN
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0203969723
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: 0415397979
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: 0415397987
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: 9780203969724
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: 9780415397971
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: 9780415397988
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Introduction : relocating modernization and technology -- 1. The presence of the past in peripheral modernities / Benita Parry -- 2. Black modernity, nationalism and transnationalism : the challenge of black South African poetry / Laura Chrisman -- 3. Failure to connect -- resistant modernities at national crossroads : Solomon Plaatje and Mohandas Gandhi / Elleke Boehmer -- 4. Township modernism / Ian Baucom -- 5. Ulysses and the shape-shifter : Caribbean modernity in Pauline Melville's writings / Saskia Schabio -- 6. V.S. Naipaul : the limitations of transnationalism and technological progress / Walter Goebel -- 7. The technology of publicity in the Atlantic semi-peripheries : Benjamin Franklin, modernity, and the Nigerian slave trade / Stephen Shapiro -- 8. Spectrality's secret sharers : occultism as (post)colonial affect / Gauri Viswanathan -- 9. Transitionality at home and abroad : some examples from India and its virtual diaspora / Martina Ghosh-Schellhorn -- 10. Technologies in Hanif Kureishi's 'The body' / Annette Buhler-Dietrich -- 11. Travels in technotopia : modernization and technology in postcolonial utopian and dystopian writing / Ralph Pordzik.
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This 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. It explores a variety of national, diasporan and transnational counternarratives to Western modernization.
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Gilroy, Paul (1956- ...)., Black Atlantic.
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Schwarze, ...
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Globalization in literature.
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Literature, Modern-- Black authors-- History and criticism.
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Literature, Modern-- Minority authors-- History and criticism.
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Postcolonialism in literature.
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Technology and civilization.
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Technology in literature.
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Globalization in literature.
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Littérature moderne-- Auteurs appartenant à des minorités-- Histoire et critique.
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Littérature moderne-- Auteurs noirs-- Histoire et critique.
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Littérature postcoloniale-- Histoire et critique.
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Moderne
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Mondialisation-- Dans la littérature.
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Neue Technologie
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Postcolonialism in literature.
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Postkoloniale Literatur
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Technologie-- Dans la littérature.
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Technology and civilization.
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Technology in literature.
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Atlantischer Raum
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Schwarze.
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| Dewey Classification
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700/.1050899601812
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| LC Classification
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CB478.B49 2006
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HP 1130rvk
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| Added Entry
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Goebel, Walter.
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Schabio, Saskia.
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