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Alternative modernities / edited by Dilip Parameshwar Gaonkar.

Contributor(s): Gaonkar, Dilip Parameshwar, 1945-
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2001Description: x, 363 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0822327147 (pbk. : alk. paper); 0822327031 (cloth : alk. paper)Uniform titles: Public culture. Subject(s): Cultural pluralism | International relations and culture | Civilization, Modern | East and West | North and southDDC classification: 306 LOC classification: HM1271 | .A44 2001Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
On alternative modernities / Dilip Parameshwar Gaonkar -- Settler modernity and the quest for an indigenous tradition / Elizabeth A. Povinelli -- Translation, imperialism, and national self-definition in Russia / Andrew Wachtel -- Shanghai modern: reflections on urban culture in China in the 1930s / Leo Ou-fan Lee -- Adda, Calcutta: dwelling in modernity / Kipesh Chakrabarty -- Miniaturizing modernity: Shahzia Sikander in conversation with Homi K. Bhabha / Robert McCarthy, editor -- Two theories of modernity / Charles Taylor -- On reconciling cosmopolitan unity and national diversity / Thomas McCarthy -- Camera Zanzibar / William Cunningham Bissell -- "Left to the imagination": Indian nationalisms and female sexuality in Trinidad / Tejaswini Niranjana -- Afro-Modernity: temporality, politics, and the African diaspora / Michael Hanchard -- Modes of citizenship in Mexico / Claudio Lomnitz -- Modernist ruins: national narratives and architectural forms /Beatriz Jaguaribe.
Holdings
Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book John Bulow Campbell Library 1 West HM1271 .A44 2001 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 0182902178629

"A Millennial quartet book--P. [ii]."

"Public culture books"--P. [ii].

"Originally published as a special issue of Public culture"--P. [ix].

On alternative modernities / Dilip Parameshwar Gaonkar -- Settler modernity and the quest for an indigenous tradition / Elizabeth A. Povinelli -- Translation, imperialism, and national self-definition in Russia / Andrew Wachtel -- Shanghai modern: reflections on urban culture in China in the 1930s / Leo Ou-fan Lee -- Adda, Calcutta: dwelling in modernity / Kipesh Chakrabarty -- Miniaturizing modernity: Shahzia Sikander in conversation with Homi K. Bhabha / Robert McCarthy, editor -- Two theories of modernity / Charles Taylor -- On reconciling cosmopolitan unity and national diversity / Thomas McCarthy -- Camera Zanzibar / William Cunningham Bissell -- "Left to the imagination": Indian nationalisms and female sexuality in Trinidad / Tejaswini Niranjana -- Afro-Modernity: temporality, politics, and the African diaspora / Michael Hanchard -- Modes of citizenship in Mexico / Claudio Lomnitz -- Modernist ruins: national narratives and architectural forms /Beatriz Jaguaribe.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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