| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 210 pages) |
| Contents |
Chapter Introduction: Relocating Modernization and Technology -- part PART I Negotiating African modernities -- chapter 1 The Presence of the Past in Peripheral Modernities / BENITA PARRY -- chapter 2 Black modernity, nationalism and transnationalism: the challenge of black South African poetry / LAURA CHRISMAN -- chapter 3 Failure to connect -- resistant modernities at national crossroads: Solomon Plaatje and / Mohandas Gandhi ELLEKE BOEHMER -- chapter 4 Township Modernism / IAN BAUCOM -- part PART II Caribbean (in)versions of modernity -- chapter 5 Ulysses and the shape-shifter: Caribbean modernity in Pauline Melville's writings / SASKIA SCHABIO -- chapter 6 V.S. Naipaul: The Limitations of Transnationalism and Technological Progress / WALTER GOEBEL -- part PART III Colonial creations of the West -- chapter 7 The Technology of Publicity in the Atlantic Semi-peripheries: Benjamin Franklin, Modernity, and the Nigerian Slave Trade / STEPHEN SHAPIRO -- chapter 8 Spectrality's secret sharers: occultism as (post)colonial a |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Literature, Modern -- Black authors -- History and criticism
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Technology and civilization.
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Globalization in literature.
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Postcolonialism in literature.
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Technology in literature.
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Literature, Modern -- Minority authors -- History and criticism
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HISTORY -- Civilization.
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Globalization in literature
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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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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Goebel, Walter
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Schabio, Saskia
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| ISBN |
0203969723 |
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9780203969724 |
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0203969723 |
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9781134151585 |
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1134151586 |
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