Thresholds of western culture : identity, postcoloniality, transnationalism / edited by John Burt Foster, Jr. and Wayne Jeffrey Froman
2002, First Edition. New York : Continuum. Fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #446587
ISBN: 0826459994
Physical description; vi, 274 pages : illustrations. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages [258]-265) and indexes. Contents; General introduction, John B. Foster Jr and Wayne J. Froman -- Part One: The Crisis of Modern Subjectivity -- Introduction -- 1. Interiority, Identity Knowledge: Unravelling the Cartesian Cogito, Robert Strozier, Wayne State University, Detroit -- 2. Subject, Self, Person: Marcel Mauss and the Limites of Poststructural Critique, Anthony J. Harding, University of Saskatchewan -- Part Two: Western Culture in the Shadow of Fascism -- Introduction -- 3. Aesthetic Fascism and Modern Tragedy: D'Annunzio's Fedra, Mary Ann Frese Witt, North Carolina State University -- 4. Musical Headings: Toscanini's and Furtwängler's Fifth Symphonies, 1939-54, Herman Rapaport, University of Southampton -- 5. Holocaust Testimony and Post-Holocaust Fiction: Cynthia Ozick's The Messiah of Stockholm, James Berger, Hofstra University -- Part Three: Africa at the Passing of White Supremacy -- Introduction -- 6. Revisiting the Amistad Revolt in Sierra Leone, Iyunolu Osagie, Pennsylvania State University -- 7. An Ethical Universal in the Postcolonial Novel?-"A Certain Simple Respect", Michiel Heyns, University of Stellenbosch, SA and Cambridge University -- 8. Western Classics in the South African State of Emergency: Coetzee's Age of Iron and Gordimer's My Son's Story, Lars Engle, University of Tulsa, Oklahoma -- Part Four: Eastern Europe After Communism -- 9. Creator versus Conspirator in the Postcommunist Revolutions, Marcel Cornis-Pope, Virginia Commonwealth University -- 10. Yugoslavism and its Discontents: A Cultural Post-Mortem, Tomislav Z. Longinovi, University of Wisconsin, Madison -- 11. Bosnia and the Ethical Limits of Cultural Relativism: Re-auditing Lyotard, Caroline Bayard, McMaster University, Ontario -- 12. Cultural Coordinates of a Bulgarian Art Hoax: "Drafts" by Virginia, A Tragedia dell'Arte, Nikita Nankov, Indiana University, Bloomington ??? -- 13. Cultural Hermeneutics and Orientalist Discourse: Loti's Self-Reflexive Japonisme, Rolf Goebel, Kiel University, Germany -- 14. Western Agon -- Eastern Ritual: Confrontations and Co-optations in World Views, Eugene Eoyang, Indiana University, Bloomington. Subjects; 1900-1999. Civilization, Western History 20th century. Civilization, Western History 20th century ; Congresses. HISTORY Modern. Civilization, Western. Group identity. Postcolonialism. Transnationalism.
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