Curio(us) Translocations: Site-Specific Interventions in Banglatown, LondonNotes on Editors and Contributors.

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Preliminary Material -- ‘Difficult Forms of Knowing’: Enquiry, Injury, and Translocated Relations of Postcolonial Responsibility / Diana Brydon -- Dislocating Imagology: And: How Much of It Can (or Should) Be Retrieved? / Claudia Perner -- Distant Reading: Cosmopolitanism as Unconditional Reception / Dirk Wiemann -- Transculturation and Narration in the Black Diaspora of the Americas / Roland Walter -- Far Away, So Close: Translocation as Storytelling Principle in Hari Kunzru’s Transmission / Lucia Krämer -- American Antebellum Cosmopolitanism: Herman Melville’s ‘Postcolonial’ Translocations / Gesa Mackenthun -- Translocal Temporalities in Alexis Wright’s Carpentaria / Lynda Ng -- “We die only once, and for such a long time”: Approaching Trauma through Translocation in Chris Abani’s Song for Night / Daria Tunca -- “The Story that gave this Land its Life”: The Translocation of Rilke’s Duino Elegies in Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide / Sandra Meyer -- Reading “Upstream!”: Implications of an Unconsidered Source Text to Julian Barnes’ Eighth Chapter of A History of the World in 10½ Chapters / Therese–M. Meyer -- Myths of Rebellion: Translocation and (Cultural) Innovation in Mexican-American Literature / Marga Munkelt -- Trans/locating Pacific Identities: From the Small Island to the Largest Polynesian City in the World / Paloma Fresno Calleja -- Writing (in) the Migrant Space: Discursive Nervousness in Contemporary Nigerian Short Stories / Thomas Martinek -- Daljit Nagra’s Look We Have Coming to Dover! and the Limits of the Translocal / Katharina Rennhak -- “I love Cyprus but England is my home”: Eve Makis’ Eat Drink and Be Married / Petra Tournay Theodotou -- Laughter Movens: Functions and Effects of Laughter in Black British Literature / Jessica Voges -- Theories and Practices of Transmigration: Colonial British Diasporas and the Emergence of Translocal Space / Silke Stroh -- Blurring Images: Articulations of Arab–American Crossovers / Markus Schmitz -- Filming Illegals: Clandestine Translocation and the Representation of Bare Life / Lars Eckstein -- Translating the American Dream?: A Brazilian Vision of the Promised Land / Gundo Rial y Costas -- Curio(us) Translocations: Site-Specific Interventions in Banglatown, London / Kathy–Ann Tan -- Notes on Editors and Contributors.

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The sites from which postcolonial cultural articulations develop and the sites at which they are received have undergone profound transformations within the last decades. This book traces the accelerating emergence of cultural crossovers and overlaps in a global perspective and through a variety of disciplinary approaches. It starts from the premise that after the ‘spatial turn’ human action and cultural representations can no longer be grasped as firmly located in or clearly demarcated by territorial entities. The collection of essays investigates postcolonial articulations of various genres and media in their spatiality and locatedness while envisaging acts of location as dynamic cultural processes. It explores the ways in which critical spatial thinking can be made productive: Testing the uses and limitations of ‘translocation’ as an open exploratory model for a critically spatialized postcolonial studies, it covers a wide range of cultural expressions from the anglophone world and beyond – literature, film, TV, photography and other forms of visual art, philosophy, historical memory, and tourism. The extensive introductory chapter charts various facets of spatial thinking from a variety of disciplines, and critically discusses their implications for postcolonial studies. The contributors’ essays range from theoretical interventions into the critical routines of postcolonial criticism to case studies of specific cultural texts, objects, and events reflecting temporal and spatial, material and intellectual, physical and spiritual mobility. What emerges is a fascinating survey of the multiple directions postcolonial translocations can take in the future. This book is aimed at students and scholars of postcolonial literary and cultural studies, diaspora studies, migration studies, transnational studies, globalisation studies, critical space studies, urban studies, film studies, media studies, art history, philosophy, history, and anthropology. Contributors: Diana Brydon, Lars Eckstein, Paloma Fresno-Calleja, Lucia Krämer, Gesa Mackenthun, Thomas Martinek, Sandra Meyer, Therese-M. Meyer, Marga Munkelt, Lynda Ng, Claudia Perner, Katharina Rennhak, Gundo Rial y Costas, Markus Schmitz, Mark Stein, Silke Stroh, Kathy-Ann Tan, Petra Tournay-Theodotou, Daria Tunca, Jessica Voges, Roland Walter, Dirk Wiemann.