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