Literature from the Peripheries: Refrigerated Culture and Pluralism

Anjum Khan; Shubhanku Kochar

doi:10.5771/9781666927542

Summary

Literature from the Peripheries: Refrigerated Culture and Pluralism is a collection of chapters dealing with multiple minority cultures from all over the world. The book examines the status of several less known cultures or cultural communities which exist in the peripheries of space and time. In addition to this, the arguments and the discourses running through chapters prove the need of cultural diversity and pluralism. This well-thought and critically written book is a clarion call for humanity to look over the shoulder and see the ghost of civilization receding farther away. The book will interest the readers, scholars, practitioners, and activists who like to explore several cultures and cultural conflicts.

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Edition: 1/2022
Copyright year: 2022
ISBN-Print: 978-1-6669-2753-5
ISBN-Online: 978-1-6669-2754-2
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 210
Product type: Edited Book

1. Contents No access
1. Why This Book?—Background No access
2. Critical Intervention No access
3. Explaining the Rubric—Refrigerated Culture No access
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1. Definition of Concept No access
2. Oyono’s The Old Man and the Medal: The Western Imperialist Cultural Osmosis No access
3. Conclusion No access
4. Bibliography No access
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1. The Nation, Nationalism, and People No access
2. A Brief History of the Literary Tradition in Manipur No access
3. “The Land of Half-Humans”: The Surreal and the Dystopian in Manipuri Poetry No access
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1. Cultures Refrigerated in Time and Spaces No access
2. Cultural Refrigeration: The Role of Hollywood and Nollywood No access
3. Conclusion No access
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1. Nature and Content of Creolization in Kerala No access
2. Maya and the “Kappiri” Myth No access
3. Cosmopolitanism of Everyday Life in Requeim for the Living No access
4. Conclusion No access
5. References No access
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1. Rituals No access
2. Collective Community No access
3. Language No access
4. Conclusion No access
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1. Notes No access
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1. Racial Tension in Jamaica No access
2. Black and White Racial Tension in America in the Sixties and Beyond No access
3. Colorism and Misfits vs. Racism and Passing No access
4. Passing and Kitty’s Alienation No access
5. Passing and Rejection: Colored or White No access
6. Conclusion: Colorism, Racial Passing, and Racism-Jamaica and America No access
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1. Note No access
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Index No access Pages 201 - 202
About the Contributors No access Pages 203 - 210