LEADER 04902nam 22006611 450 001 9910784707103321 005 20200514202323.0 010 $a1-4725-4599-0 010 $a1-281-29862-X 010 $a9786611298623 010 $a1-84714-328-8 024 7 $a10.5040/9781472545992 035 $a(CKB)1000000000406356 035 $a(EBL)436057 035 $a(OCoLC)290595868 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000259150 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11222500 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000259150 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10274392 035 $a(PQKB)10367692 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC436057 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL436057 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10224751 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL129862 035 $a(OCoLC)893333847 035 $a(OCoLC)1154879802 035 $a(UtOrBLW)bpp09255628 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000406356 100 $a20140929d2002 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aThresholds of western culture $eidentity, postcoloniality, transnationalism /$feditors, John Burt Foster, Jr., Wayne Jeffrey Froman 210 1$aNew York :$cContinuum,$d2002. 215 $a1 online resource (vi, 274 pages) $cillustrations 225 1 $aTextures 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-8264-5999-4 311 0 $a0-8264-6001-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages [258]-265) and indexes. 327 $aGeneral introduction, John B. Foster Jr and Wayne J. Froman -- Part One: The Crisis of Modern Subjectivity -- Introduction -- 1. Interiority, Identity Knowledge: Unravelling the Cartesian Cogito, Robert Strozier, Wayne State University, Detroit -- 2. Subject, Self, Person: Marcel Mauss and the Limites of Poststructural Critique, Anthony J. Harding, University of Saskatchewan -- Part Two: Western Culture in the Shadow of Fascism -- Introduction -- 3. Aesthetic Fascism and Modern Tragedy: D'Annunzio's Fedra, Mary Ann Frese Witt, North Carolina State University -- 4. Musical Headings: Toscanini's and Furtwa?ngler's Fifth Symphonies, 1939-54, Herman Rapaport, University of Southampton -- 5. Holocaust Testimony and Post-Holocaust Fiction: Cynthia Ozick's The Messiah of Stockholm, James Berger, Hofstra University -- Part Three: Africa at the Passing of White Supremacy -- Introduction -- 6. Revisiting the Amistad Revolt in Sierra Leone, Iyunolu Osagie, Pennsylvania State University -- 7. An Ethical Universal in the Postcolonial Novel?-"A Certain Simple Respect", Michiel Heyns, University of Stellenbosch, SA and Cambridge University -- 8. Western Classics in the South African State of Emergency: Coetzee's Age of Iron and Gordimer's My Son's Story, Lars Engle, University of Tulsa, Oklahoma -- Part Four: Eastern Europe After Communism -- 9. Creator versus Conspirator in the Postcommunist Revolutions, Marcel Cornis-Pope, Virginia Commonwealth University -- 10. Yugoslavism and its Discontents: A Cultural Post-Mortem, Tomislav Z. Longinovi, University of Wisconsin, Madison -- 11. Bosnia and the Ethical Limits of Cultural Relativism: Re-auditing Lyotard, Caroline Bayard, McMaster University, Ontario -- 12. Cultural Coordinates of a Bulgarian Art Hoax: "Drafts" by Virginia, A Tragedia dell'Arte, Nikita Nankov, Indiana University, Bloomington ??? -- 13. Cultural Hermeneutics and Orientalist Discourse: Loti's Self-Reflexive Japonisme, Rolf Goebel, Kiel University, Germany -- 14. Western Agon -- Eastern Ritual: Confrontations and Co-optations in World Views, Eugene Eoyang, Indiana University, Bloomington 330 8 $aThresholds of Western Culture explores identity, postcoloniality and transnationalism--three closely related issues which redefine contemporary cultural identity. The book opens with an analysis of subjectivity and the cultural meltdown that accompanied fascism in the West. The situation in Africa is then explored which, while recalling modernity's dark side, highlights the intricacy of postcolonial identity. Post-Soviet Eastern Europe presents a separate case of neglected postcoloniality which emphasizes how ethnocentrism and cultural tensions have exposed the fragility of transnationalism. The book concludes with an examination of East Asia, a region which offers transnational options potentially much more fruitful than Balkanization 410 0$aTextures (New York, N.Y.) 606 $aCivilization, Western$xHistory$y20th century 606 $2Philosophy 615 0$aCivilization, Western$xHistory 676 $a909.82 702 $aFoster$b John Burt$f1945- 702 $aFroman$b Wayne Jeffrey$f1945- 801 0$bUtOrBLW 801 1$bUtOrBLW 801 2$bUkLoBP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910784707103321 996 $aThresholds of western culture$93728358 997 $aUNINA