Metaphoricity and the politics of mobility /

This collection of essays investigates the convergence between the postmodern politics of mobility and a politics of metaphor, a politics, in other words, in the context of which the production and displacement of meaning(s) constitute the major stakes. Ranging from discussions of re-territorializat...

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Tác giả khác: Margaroni, Maria, Yiannopoulou, Effie
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Ngôn ngữ:Tiếng Anh
Được phát hành: Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, ©2006.
Loạt:Thamyris intersecting ; no. 12.
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Mục lục:
  • Introduction: Theorizing Metaphoricity, Reconceptualizing Politics; Part I: Metaphoricity and Postmodern Theory; Mobile Concepts, Metaphor, and the Problem of Referentiality in Deleuze and Guattari; The State of Territory under Globalization: Empire and the Politics of Reterritorialization; Part II: Mobilizing the Politics of Theory; Making up Chinese-Americans: Moral Geographies of Immigration in the Chinese Exclusion Act (1882) and The Peopling of America Theme Study Act (2001); Land to Light On? Making Reparation in a Time of Transnationality.
  • Relocating the Idea of Europe: Keith Piper's Other HeadingsPart III: Mobilizing the Theory of Politics; Ambient Fears; On the Road with Lamerica: Immigrants, Refugees and the Poor; Metaphoring: Making a Niche of Negative Space; List of Figures; Contributors; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z.