Constellations of the Transnational: Modernity, Culture, Critique

"In this volume, the economic, political and social consequences of the focus on 'culture' in contemporary theories of globalization are analyzed around the disparate fields of architecture, museum discourse, satellite television, dub poetry, carnival and sub-national theatre. The discourses of hybridity, diaspora, cultural difference and minoritization are critically interrogated and engaged with through close analyses of cultural objects and practices. The essays thus intervene in the debates around modernity, globalization and cultural politics, and the volume as a whole provides a critical constellation through which the complexity of transnational culture can be framed. Thinking through the particular, the essays limn the absent universality of forms of capitalist globalization and the volume as a whole provides multiple perspectives from which to enter the singular modernity of our times in all its complexity."--BOOK JACKET.DASGUPTA, Sudeep is the author of 'Constellations of the Transnational: Modernity, Culture, Critique', published 2007 under ISBN 9789042021198 and ISBN 9042021195.