Table of Contents
Acknowledgments Introduction: Locating Transnational Ideals, Walter Goebel and Saskia Schabio Part I: Defining the Transnational and the Cosmopolitan 1Globalization, Transnation and Utopia, Bill Ashcroft 2: Politics or Ethics? On Cosmopolitanism, Timothy Brennan 3: The Ethics of a Critical Cosmopolitanism for the Twenty-First Century, Heinz Antor 4: Toward a Philosophy of Transnationalism, Laura Doyle 5: Toward a Non-Cynical Universalism, Keya Ganguly Part II: Historicizing the Transnational and the Cosmopolitan 6: The Fascination of ‘Living Together in a Civilized Way’ or Nations and Cosmopolitanism in More’s Utopia (1516) and Ribeiro’s Wild Utopia (1982), Hans Ulrich Seeber 7: Cultural Nationalism Reconsidered: Ossian in Postcolonial Perspectives, Tobias Döring 8: Hard and Soft Cosmopolitanism: The Eighteenth Century and After, Walter Goebel 9: Exhibiting Difference: The Museum as a Guide to Spectatorship, Renate Brosch 10: The First Colonial Art Museum and Transnationalism in the Visual Arts: Saint-Denis, La Réunion, 1912, Bärbel Küster Part III: Redefining Transnationalism(S) Vs. International Commodification 11: Remembering Africa: Africa as the Sign of the Transnational in Black-British Writing, Mpalive Msiska 12: The Great Game: The Geopolitics of Secret Knowledge, Gauri Viswanathan 13: The Transnational Passage of the Spanish Word cimarrón, Elyette Benjamin-Labarthe 14: The Border as Third Space: Between Colonial Gaze and Transnational Dislocation, Noha Hamdy 15: Cracked Communicating Vessels: Sexuality, Body Modification, and Flesh in the West and the ‘non West’, Chantal Zabus 16: Globalizing Jane Austen: An Analysis of Gurinder Chadha’s Pride and Prejudice Adaptation Bride and Prejudice, Sarah Säckel List of Contributors
