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Mediterranean Crossings: The Politics of an Interrupted Modernity

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Description for Mediterranean Crossings: The Politics of an Interrupted Modernity Paperback. An interdisciplinary interpretation of the Mediterranean as an extraordinarily fluid, heterogeneous cultural and historical formation, by a leading cultural theorist. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1QRM; HBTB. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 221 x 163 x 16. Weight in Grams: 318.
The cultural theorist Iain Chambers is known for his historically grounded, philosophically informed, and politically pointed inquiries into issues of identity, alterity, and migration, and the challenge postcolonial studies poses to conventional Western thought. With Mediterranean Crossings, he challenges insufficient prevailing characterizations of the Mediterranean by offering a vibrant interdisciplinary and intercultural interpretation of the region’s culture and history. The “Mediterranean” as a concept entered the European lexicon only in the early nineteenth century. As an object of study, it is the product of modern geographical, political, and historical classifications. Chambers contends that the region’s fundamentally fluid, hybrid nature has ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822341505
SKU
V9780822341505
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About Iain Chambers
Iain Chambers is Professor of Cultural and Postcolonial Studies at the Università degli Studi di Napoli, “l’Orientale,” Italy. He is the author of several books, including Culture after Humanism: History, Culture and Subjectivity; Migrancy, Culture, Identity; and Border Dialogues: Journeys in Postmodernity.

Reviews for Mediterranean Crossings: The Politics of an Interrupted Modernity
“Iain Chambers is a gifted and spirited cultural flâneur whose journeys along the textual and musical shores of the Mediterranean have resulted in a book that explores the extensive connections of modern life. With insight and empathy Chambers argues that the Mediterranean is a decentered and disjunctive topos that has the capacity, and the complexity, to become the contemporary crossroads ... Read more

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