Thresholds of western culture
Subtitle: identity, postcoloniality, transnationalism
By: edited by John Burt Foster, Jr. and Wayne Jeffrey Froman.
Contributors: Foster, John Burt, 1945-; Froman, Wayne Jeffrey, 1945-
Series: Textures; Textures (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher: Continuum
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 274
Subjects: Civilization, Western -- History -- 20th century.
Description: Thresholds of Western Culture explores identity, postcoloniality and transnationalism--three closely related issues which redefine contemporary cultural identity. The book opens with an analysis of subjectivity and the cultural meltdown that accompanied fascism in the West. The situation in Africa is then explored which, while recalling modernity's dark side, highlights the intricacy of postcolonial identity. Post-Soviet Eastern Europe presents a separate case of neglected postcoloniality which emphasizes how ethnocentrism and cultural tensions have exposed the fragility of transnationalism. The book concludes with an examination of East Asia, a region which offers transnational options potentially much more fruitful than Balkanization
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [258]-265) and indexes.