Chaos in the Contact Zone: Unpredictability, Improvisation and the Struggle for Control in Cultural Encounters

Published by transcript Verlag 2017

Chaos in the Contact Zone

Unpredictability, Improvisation and the Struggle for Control in Cultural Encounters

Edited by: Stephanie Wodianka and Christoph Behrens

Volume 94 in the series Edition Kulturwissenschaft

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839433898

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About this book

Cultural encounters are often being stylized not only as experiences of uncontrollability and unpredictability par excellence, but also as challenges to planning and predicting. The history, the different forms and the consequences of this phenomenon are the main issues discussed in this volume. The contributions show that chaos and control are not mutually exclusive in the "contact zone" (Mary Louise Pratt); on the contrary, they stand in relation to each other - be it as a competence or as an interpretive scheme.

Author / Editor information

Stephanie Wodianka (Prof. Dr.) is Chair of French and Italian Literature at the University of Rostock, Germany.
Christoph Behrens teaches French and Italian literary studies at the University of Rostock. His main areas of research are the interrelation between aesthetic and sociocultural practices of love, gender and queer theories in (Romance) philology as well as the the interweaving of literature and the 'other arts'.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	5
The Emergence and Domestication of Chaos in the Contact Zone “The Rusty Giant from Rostock” or the “Koloss von Züros” Stephanie Wodianka Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	7
The “Jewish Indian Theory” The Problem of the Origin of the American Populations Nathan Wachtel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	19
On the Cultural Coding of Skin Colour in Early Modern Contact Zones Peter Burschel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	43
Islands in the Maelstrom East German Families’ Coping with Chaos in the Unification Contact Zone Olaf Reis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	59
Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood Stories of Misunderstandings, Concepts of Culture and the Process of European Expansion Christina Brauner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	81
Walking Backwards to the Future, Facing the Past The Conception of Time in Andean Philosophy Josef Estermann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	109
Many Worlds, Many Stories Towards a Multiplication of Perspectives on Early Modern Cultural Encounters Sünne Juterczenka Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	133
The Contingency of Cultural Negotiations in Cross-Border Networks The BRICS Case Yvette Sánchez Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	159
Unexpected Outcomes of the Portuguese Encounter in Sri Lanka Innovation and Hybridity Shihan De Silva Jayasuriya Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	179
Enriching Repertoires Code-Blending and Linguistic Transfer in the Contact Zone Anja Voeste Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	201
From Early Country Blues to Rap Uwe Zagratzki Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	221
Authors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	247

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Language: English
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 252
Keywords: Control; Contact Zone; Cultural Encounters; Hybridity; Cultural Diversity; Culture; Globalization; Interculturalism; Cultural Theory; Cultural Studies

eBook

Published: June 27, 2017
ISBN: 9783839433898