Dialogues in the Diasporas: Essays and Conversations on Cultural Identity

by Nikos Papastergiadis

Overview

This book stages a series of dialogical encounters, the necessary precondition for ongoing negotiations of identity in the modern world. Addressing the pleasures and dangers of cultural identity in the age of mass media and global migration, these essays range from a commentary on the redrawing of the boundaries of contemporary art to a mapping of the controversial theory of hybridity.

Interspersed with the essays are conversations with prominent writers and artists such as John Berger, Jimmie Durham, Gayatri Spivak, and David Malouf. The multivocal assemblage argues that the significance of cultural identity can no longer be defined according to conventional models but is an issue that goes beyond the positions of center and periphery in metropolitan spaces.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781854890948
Publisher:	Paul & Company Publishers Consortium, Inc.
Publication date:	07/01/1998
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 5.50(h) x (d)