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Book SynopsisThe contributors to
Territories and Trajectories propose a model of cultural production and transmission based on the global diffusion, circulation, and exchange of people, things, and ideas across time and space.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii
Introduction: On Disciplines and Destinations / Homi K. Bhabha 1
Editor's Introduction: Alternative Geographic Mappings for the Twenty-First Century / Diana Sorensen 13
Part I. Travel and Transmission
1. The Diplomacy of Exoticism: Brazilian Accounts of the Global South / Rosario Hubert 35
2. Hearing Geography in Motion: Processes of the Musical Imagination in Diaspora / Kay Kaufman Shelemay 47
3. A Chinese Fan in Sri Lanka and the Transport of Writing / Xiaofei Tian 68
Part II. Portable Materialities and Crossings
4. The Portability of Art: A Prologomena to Art and Architecture on the Move / Alina Payne 91
5. Genealogies of Whitewash: "Muhammedan Churches," Reformation Polemics, and the Aesthetics of Modernism / Finbarr Barry Flood 110
6. Mobility and Material Culture: A Case Study / Diana Sorensen 151
Part III. Worlding, Rights, and Regimes of Representation
7. World Literature and the Health Humanities: Translingual Encounters with Brain Disorders / Karen Thornber 163
8. In But Not of Europe? The Precarious Rights of Roma in the European Union / Jacqueline Bhabha 185
9. From World History to World Art: Reflections on New Geographies of Feminist Art / Shu-Mei Shih 201
Part IV. Crosscurrents and Displacements
10. Technologies of Uncertainty in the Search for Flight MH370 / Lindsay Bremner 223
Contributors 257
Index 261
