Chaos in the Contact Zone

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.

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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 Accessible Download PDF	1
Table of Contents Accessible Download PDF	5
The Emergence and Domestication of Chaos in the Contact Zone Stephanie Wodianka Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	7
The “Jewish Indian Theory” Nathan Wachtel Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	19
On the Cultural Coding of Skin Colour in Early Modern Contact Zones Peter Burschel Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	43
Islands in the Maelstrom Olaf Reis Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	59
Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood Christina Brauner Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	81
Walking Backwards to the Future, Facing the Past Josef Estermann Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	109
Many Worlds, Many Stories Sünne Juterczenka Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	133
The Contingency of Cultural Negotiations in Cross-Border Networks Yvette Sánchez Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	159
Unexpected Outcomes of the Portuguese Encounter in Sri Lanka Shihan De Silva Jayasuriya Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	179
Enriching Repertoires Anja Voeste Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	201
From Early Country Blues to Rap Uwe Zagratzki Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	221
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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 26, 2017
ISBN: 9783839433898