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Global/Local: Cultural Production and the Transnational Imaginary
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Description for Global/Local: Cultural Production and the Transnational Imaginary
Paperback. Editor(s): Wilson, Rob; Dissanayake, Wimal. Series: Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society. Num Pages: 408 pages. BIC Classification: 1F; JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 47. Weight in Grams: 635.
This groundbreaking collection focuses on what may be, for cultural studies, the most intriguing aspect of contemporary globalization—the ways in which the postnational restructuring of the world in an era of transnational capitalism has altered how we must think about cultural production. Mapping a "new world space" that is simultaneously more globalized and localized than before, these essays examine the dynamic between the movement of capital, images, and technologies without regard to national borders and the tendency toward fragmentation of the world into increasingly contentious enclaves of difference, ethnicity, and resistance.
Ranging across issues involving film, literature, and theory, ... Read more
This groundbreaking collection focuses on what may be, for cultural studies, the most intriguing aspect of contemporary globalization—the ways in which the postnational restructuring of the world in an era of transnational capitalism has altered how we must think about cultural production. Mapping a "new world space" that is simultaneously more globalized and localized than before, these essays examine the dynamic between the movement of capital, images, and technologies without regard to national borders and the tendency toward fragmentation of the world into increasingly contentious enclaves of difference, ethnicity, and resistance.
Ranging across issues involving film, literature, and theory, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
408
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Series
Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society
Condition
New
Weight
635g
Number of Pages
408
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822317128
SKU
V9780822317128
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About Wilson
Rob Wilson is Professor of Literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is the author of Reimagining the American Pacific and coeditor of Asia/Pacific as Space of Cultural Production, both published by Duke University Press. Wimal Dissanayake is editor of East-West Film Journal.
Reviews for Global/Local: Cultural Production and the Transnational Imaginary
"Challenging, provocative, informative, and giving full substance to the interrelations of the global and local, these essays carry the reader through a marvelously rich range of materials just where intellectual life in the humanities and social sciences today is most vital."—Jonathan Arac, University of Pittsburgh