Beschreibung:
Diana Sorensen is James F. Rothenberg Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and of Comparative Literature at Harvard University, as well as the author of A Turbulent Decade Remembered: Scenes from the Latin American Sixties. Homi K. Bhabha is Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University.
Acknowledgments vii Introduction: On Disciplines and Destinations / Homi K. Bhabha 1 Editor's Introduction: Alternative Geographic Mappings for the Twenty-First Century / Diana Sorensen 13 Part I. Travel and Transmission 1. The Diplomacy of Exoticism: Brazilian Accounts of the Global South / Rosario Hubert 35 2. Hearing Geography in Motion: Processes of the Musical Imagination in Diaspora / Kay Kaufman Shelemay 47 3. A Chinese Fan in Sri Lanka and the Transport of Writing / Xiaofei Tian 68 Part II. Portable Materialities and Crossings 4. The Portability of Art: A Prologomena to Art and Architecture on the Move / Alina Payne 91 5. Genealogies of Whitewash: "Muhammedan Churches," Reformation Polemics, and the Aesthetics of Modernism / Finbarr Barry Flood 110 6. Mobility and Material Culture: A Case Study / Diana Sorensen 151 Part III. Worlding, Rights, and Regimes of Representation 7. World Literature and the Health Humanities: Translingual Encounters with Brain Disorders / Karen Thornber 163 8. In But Not of Europe? The Precarious Rights of Roma in the European Union / Jacqueline Bhabha 185 9. From World History to World Art: Reflections on New Geographies of Feminist Art / Shu-Mei Shih 201 Part IV. Crosscurrents and Displacements 10. Technologies of Uncertainty in the Search for Flight MH370 / Lindsay Bremner 223 Contributors 257 Index 261