Transnational Approaches to Culture
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Herausgegeben von:
Ela Gezen
The transnational has become one of the most popular paradigms in cultural studies. On the one hand, it bears the promise of transformation: of the opportunity to move across and beyond geographic and disciplinary boundaries, tracing the mobility of peoples, cultures, languages, institutions, ideas, and ideologies around the globe. Yet, on the other hand, it also exposes the continued power of these boundaries, revealing structures of exclusion. This series showcases innovative scholarly work that not only maps these transnational entanglements, but develops new methodological and theoretical approaches to interrogate them. Topics thus span cultural and historical reflections of migration, diaspora, and exile; globalization, cosmopolitanism and citizenship; and acts of border crossing, whether across geographies, cultures, or languages. The works in the series not only engage with the transnational as practice, but also develop and contribute in novel ways to transnational theory and methodology. In so doing, they critically re-appraise seemingly ‘national’ canons and contexts in the light of transnational approaches.
Advisory Board:
Gülru Çakmak (University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA)
Jennifer Fay (Vanderbilt University, USA)
Emine Fişek (Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria)
Eveline Kilian (Humboldt University Berlin, Germany)
Hiroshi Kitamura (The College of William & Mary, USA)
B. Venkat Mani (University of Wisconsin Madison, USA)
Kate Rigby (Bath Spa University, UK)
Information zu Autoren / Herausgebern
Ela Gezen, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA; Benedict Schofield, University of Bristol, Großbritannien.
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