| Contents |
Introduction : directions of translocation : towards a critical spatial thinking in postcolonial studies / Marga Munkelt, Markus Schmitz, Mark Stein, and Silke Stroh -- Section I. Conceptual interventions and disciplinary transgressions -- "Difficult forms of knowing": : enquiry, injury, and translocated relations of postcolonial responsibility / Diana Brydon -- Dislocating imagology : and, How much of it can (or should) be retrieved? / Claudia Perner -- Distant reading : cosmopolitanism as unconditional reception / Dirk Wiemann -- Section II. Space, time, and narration -- Transculturation and narration in the Black diaspora of the Americas / Roland Walter -- Far away, so close : translocation as storytelling principle in Hari Kunzru's Transmission / Lucia Kräme -- Amerrican antebellum cosmopolitanism : Herman Melville's "postcolonial" translocations / Gesa Mackenthun -- Translocal temporalities in Alexis Wright's Carpentaria / Lynda Ng -- "We die once only, and for such a long time" : approaching trauma through translocation in Chris Abani's Song for night / Daria Tunca -- Section III. Translation and cultural rewriting -- The story that gave this land its life" : the translocation of Rilke's Duino elegies in Amitav Ghosh's The hungry tide / Sandra Meyer -- Reading "Upstream!" : implications of an unconsidered source text to Julian Barnes' eighth chapte of A history of the world in 10 1/2 chapters / Therese-M. Meyer -- Myths of rebellion : translocation and (cultural) innovation in Mexican-American literature / Marga Munkelt -- Section IV. Diasporas, identifications, resistance -- Trans/locating Pacific identities : from the small island to the largest Polynesian city in the world / Paloma Fresno-Calleja -- Writing (in) the migrant space : discursive nervousness in contemporary Nigerian short stories / Thomas Martinek -- Daljit Nagra's Look we have coming to Dover! and the limits of the translocal / Katharina Rennhak -- "I love Cyprus but England is my home" : Eve Makis' Eat drink and be married / Petra Tournay-Theodotou -- Laughter Movens : functions and effects of laughte in black British literature / Jessica Voges -- Section V. Transmigration : multiple migration and cultural transgression -- Theories and practices of transmigration : colonial British diasporas and the emergence of translocal space / Silke Stroh -- Blurring images : articulations of Arab-American crossovers / Markus Schmitz -- Section VI. Media and performance -- Filming illegals : clandestine translocation and the representation of bare life / Lars Eckstein -- Translating the American dream? A Brazilian vision of the promised land / Gundo Rial y Costas -- Curio(us) translocations : site-specific interventions in Banglatown, London / Kathy-Ann Tan. |
