Vernacular Worlds, Cosmopolitan ImaginationVernacular Worlds, Cosmopolitan Imagination brings together essays on literary and artistic practice involving cross-cultural transactions in the post-colonial world. The essays explore broad questions of ethics and aesthetics in the productive tension between language, culture, and the polis. |
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Contents
ACLALS Social Change and Cultural Activism | 1 |
An Essay on English and the Environment in Africa | 21 |
Mirroring Change in an Aboriginal Workshop Tiwi Designs Northern Australia | 39 |
Contemporary Oral Accounts of the South African mamlambo | 59 |
Practising Indigenous Literatures in the Indian University | 87 |
What About Shobhaa Dé? Indian Pulp Fiction Meets Indian Writing in English | 103 |
Vernacular Imaginations in Contemporary Papua New Guinea Fiction | 121 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Vernacular Worlds, Cosmopolitan Imagination |
| Editors | Stephanos Stephanides, Stavros Karayanni |
| Publisher | BRILL, 2015 |
| ISBN | 900430066X, 9789004300668 |
| Length | 260 pages |
| Subjects | › › Literary Criticism / General Social Science / Anthropology / General Social Science / Sociology / General |
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