Cosmopolitan Asia: Littoral Epistemologies of the Global South

ISBN-13: 9781138476134 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 194 str.

Opis

One key concept in the large body of scholarship concerned with theorizing social relations is the idea of 'cosmopolitanism'. This book unpacks the idea of cosmopolitanism as it relates to Asia, and focuses on regions and places where inter-Asian intermingling has taken place. A wide range of subjects are considered: present and historical, real, as represented in literature and in theatre, and as theorized in philosophy. The book reveals a cosmopolitanism that is much more specifically Asian than the cosmopolitanism usually associated with the West, demonstrates how concepts of 'nation', 'local' and 'globalization' play out in practice in Asian settings, and re-examines concepts such as migration, diaspora, and the construction of identities.

Spis treści

Introduction 1. Migration, transnationalism, and modernity: Thinking of Kerala’s many Cosmopolitanisms  2. ‘Beyond the limits of nation and geography’: Rabindranath Tagore and the cosmopolitan moment, 1916–1920  3. Tamils and Greater India: Some issues of connected histories  4. Creole Hadramis in the Malay world in the 1800s: Fragments of biographies and connected histories  5. Malang cosmopolitanisms of the 1960s  6. Crossing the Indian Ocean and wading through the littoral: Cosmopolitan visions in Amitav Ghosh’s ‘antique land’ and ‘tide country’  7. Contesting imagined communities: Politics of script and Tai cosmopolitanism in upland Vietnam  8. Bayam, the cosmopolitan: Postcolonial ecologies of the amaranth  9. Cultural Cosmopolitanisms in the Malaysian Theatre  10. Cosmopolitanism without empire? Tense and tender ties in Don Lee’s Country of Origin  Conclusion