Mediterranean Crossings: The Politics of an Interrupted Modernity

Iain Chambers

Published by Duke University Press 2008

Mediterranean Crossings

The Politics of an Interrupted Modernity

Iain Chambers

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822388869

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An interdisciplinary interpretation of the Mediterranean as an extraordinarily fluid, heterogeneous cultural and historical formation, by a leading cultural theorist.

Author / Editor information

Iain Chambers is Professor of Cultural and Postcolonial Studies at the Università degli Studi di Napoli, “l’Orientale,” Italy. He is the author of several books, including Culture after Humanism: History, Culture and Subjectivity; Migrancy, Culture, Identity; and Border Dialogues: Journeys in Postmodernity.

Reviews

“Iain Chambers is a gifted and spirited cultural flâneur whose journeys along the textual and musical shores of the Mediterranean have resulted in a book that explores the extensive connections of modern life. With insight and empathy Chambers argues that the Mediterranean is a decentered and disjunctive topos that has the capacity, and the complexity, to become the contemporary crossroads of intercultural transmission and political transformation. This is a stirring example of cultural studies blessed with the love of song and myth.”—Homi K. Bhabha, Harvard University

“Iain Chambers is without question one of the most learned scholars working in the field of cultural studies today. In Mediterranean Crossings, he takes us through philosophical, fictional, filmic, musical, and popular cultural texts produced over the centuries, arguing that the Mediterranean needs to be reconceptualized as a transitory, rather than stabilized, habitation and as an ever-evolving cross-cultural space. Reverberating with far-reaching philosophical implications, his readings combine critical insights with the charm of a storyteller who has traveled widely in texts as well as in physical worlds.”—Rey Chow, author of The Age of the World Target: Self-Referentiality in War, Theory, and Comparative Work

“With Mediterranean Crossings, Iain Chambers delineates a new line of discourse on Mediterranean Studies that is as interdisciplinary as the region is hybrid. He mediates between conflicting histories, cultures, interpretations, and events, elegantly moving between the past and present, large and small, individuals and peoples, in this impressionistic portrait of an unclassifiable, fluid region.”—Giuliana Bruno, author of Atlas of Emotion: Journeys in Art, Architecture, and Film

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
1. Many Voices Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2. A Postcolonial Sea Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	23
3. Off the Map Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	50
4. Naples: A Porous Modernity Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	71
5. Between Shores Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	130
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Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Pages
- Main content: 192

eBook

Published: January 16, 2008
ISBN: 9780822388869