Nation & Narration

Bhabha, in his preface, writes 'Nations, like narratives, lose their origins in the myths of time and only fully encounter their horizons in the mind's eye'. From this seemingly impossibly metaphorical beginning, this volume confronts the realities of the concept of nationhood as it is lived and the profound ambivalence of language as it is written. From Gillian Beer's reading of Virginia Woolf, Rachel Bowlby's cultural history of Uncle Tom's Cabin and Francis Mulhern's study of Leaviste's 'English ethics'; to Doris Sommer's study of the 'magical realism' of Latin American fiction and Sneja Gunew's analysis of Australian writing, Nation and Narration is a celebration of the fact that English is no longer an English national consciousness, which is not nationalist, but is the only thing that will give us an international dimension.

Bhabha, Homi K.

Reference

Routledge

Rethinking questions of identity, social agency and national affiliation, Bhabha provides a working, if controversial, theory of cultural hybridity - one that goes far beyond previous attempts by others. In The Location of Culture, he uses concepts such as mimicry, interstice, hybridity, and liminality to argue that cultural production is always most productive where it is most ambivalent. Speaking in a voice that combines intellectual ease with the belief that theory itself can contribute to practical political change, Bhabha has become one of the leading post-colonial theorists of this era.

The Location of Culture (Routledge Classics)

Arts & Photography

The Location of Culture (Routledge Classics) (Volume 55)

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

This final installment of the Millennial Quartet addresses the question of whether cosmopolitanism—ways of thinking, feeling, and acting beyond one’s particular society—is simply the universalism of a Western particular. Assembling scholars from an array of disciplines including English literature and language, romance languages, art history, South Asian studies, and anthropology, this special issue of Public Culture recenters the theory and history of translocal political aspirations and cultural ideas from the traditional Western vantage point to areas outside Europe, such as South Asia, China, and Africa. By examining new archives, framing new theoretical formulations, and suggesting new possibilities of political practice, these essays stretch the term cosmopolitanism to new definitions. On the one hand, cosmopolitanism may be taken to promise a form of supraregional political solidarity, but on the other, it may erode precisely those cultural differences that derive their meaning from a particular place and tradition. Given that most cosmopolitan political formations, from the Roman imperium to European imperialism to contemporary globalization, have been coercive and unequal, can there be a noncoercive and egalitarian cosmopolitan politics? At the most elevated level of conceptualization, while cosmopolitanism may promise a universalism of knowledge, it more typically represents an unwarranted generalization of a European idea or practice.

Cosmopolitanism: Millennial Quartet IV (Volume 12) (Special Issue of Public Culture: Millinneial Quartet)

Politics & Social Sciences

Pollock, Sheldon

Chakrabarty, Dipesh

Breckenridge, Carol A.

Social Sciences

Duke University Press Books

Confronted by crises at the beginning of a new century, the world needs innovative ways of thinking: new kinds of education encouraging the active involvement of the citizen, with intellectuals playing unprecedented roles. Cross-cultural negotiations and alternative understandings of the processes of artistic creation will be at the heart of these responses. One of the main purposes of "The Urgency of Theory" is to continue the discussion of these issues that was begun in "The State of the World", published by Carcanet and the Fundacao Calouste Gulbenkian in 2006. Thirteen distinguished and creative thinkers were invited to present their latest areas of interest in a series of public lectures in Lisbon in 2006. Now collected in this volume, their lectures are challenging, stimulating and empowering, offering ways forward for a culture at turning point.

The Urgency of Theory (State of the World)

Ferro, Marc

Kacem, Mehdi Belhaj

Carcanet P.

Anish Kapoor

Flammarion

A massive appraisal of a hitherto little-known aspect of Kapoor’s prodigious output 
This 400-page volume is the first publication to explore in depth the painting of British artist Anish Kapoor (born 1934). It offers a unique insight into a language that has increasingly been a focus over the last 10 years, but which has also been an integral part of his studio practice since his career began in the late 1970s. In works that sit on the cusp between abstraction and figuration, Kapoor reveals a desire to go beyond the surface that has been so famously explored in his international beloved sculptural works. Image, surface, space and time appear in sometimes delicate but often violent symmetry. 
With essays from such as acclaimed thinkers as Julia Kristeva and Homi K. Bhabha, with whom the artist has collaborated in articulating his distinctive visual language, this extensive survey traces the trajectory that has led Kapoor to his boldest body of work to date.

Anish Kapoor: Painting

Kapoor, Anish

Individual Artists

Walther König, Köln

Die Verortung der Kultur.

Stauffenburg-Verlag

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