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.
PERSONAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Gilroy, Paul (1956- ...)., Black Atlantic.
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TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Globalization in literature.
Literature, Modern-- Black authors-- History and criticism.
Literature, Modern-- Minority authors-- History and criticism.
Postcolonialism in literature.
Technology and civilization.
Technology in literature.
Globalization in literature.
Littérature moderne-- Auteurs appartenant à des minorités-- Histoire et critique.
Littérature moderne-- Auteurs noirs-- Histoire et critique.
Littérature postcoloniale-- Histoire et critique.