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Reading Chinese Transnationalisms responds to the growing interest in transnational cultural studies by examining Chinese transnationalism from a variety of perspectives. In interrogating social practices and literary and filmic texts which frequently cross national borders in imagining Chineseness, the collection's contributors also challenge received notions of Chinese transnationalism, opening up new perspectives on the topic

Preliminary Material /Sara D'Arcy , Paulina Nalewajko and Katarzyna Popek-Bernat -- Eroticism in Traditional Kabyle Culture /Sabrina Zerar -- The 'Swellings' of the Virtual in, and Outside of, Milton's Paradise Lost /Boris Beric -- Abjecting the Male Flâneur: Angela Carter's Appropriation and Subversion of Baudelaire in The Passion of New Eve /Sara D'Arcy -- Interdisciplinary Project on the Representation of Erotic Relations in Spanish and Polish Contemporary Literature and Its Application to Other Disciplines /Katarzyna Popek-Bernat and Paulina Nalewajko -- Eroticism and Surrealism in the Cinema of Walerian Borowczyk /Kacper Nowacki -- The Representation of Masculinity and Male Sexuality in Pedro Almodóvar's Film Law of Desire /Evangelia Sempou -- Seduction and Possession: The Power of the Erotic in Romantic Australian Landscape Painting /Sally Clarke -- Vegetable Pornography: The 'Moral' (Scientific) Debate Surrounding Francesco Bartolozzi's 'Stipple Gardens' and William Blake's 'Vegetable Earth' in John Gabriel Stedman's Surinam Travelogue /Joseph Blessin -- 'Showing Our Best (Gay) Face Abroad': On the Erotics of Capital, Queerness, and the Nation /Jake Silver -- Being Gay in Mexico in the 21st Century: Relationship Styles of Gay Men Belonging to Three Different Generations Living in Mexico /Edgar Rodríguez Sánchez and Julio A. Valencia Maldonado -- The Sexual Rights of Persons with Disabilities /Yvette Wiid.

Dreamworld : Macao and twenty-first-century casino capitalism -- Feeling bored in the party capital -- The struggle for memories in the city of heritage -- The gambler -- City of sojourners -- Walking the murderous landscape : crime stories -- Extraordinary treasures in a city of old things -- Tales of contemporary lives.

In the twenty-first century, terms such as globalization, global, and world function as key words at the cusp of new frontiers in both historical writing and literary criticism. Practitioners of these disciplines may appear to be long time intimate lovers when seen from pre and early modern time periods, only to divorce with the coming of Anglophone world history in the twenty-first century. In recent years, works such as Martin Puchner's The Written World, Maya Jasanoff's The Dawn Watch, or the three novels that encompass Amitav Ghosh's Ibis Trilogy, have rekindled a variant of history and literature's embrace in a global register. This book probes recent scholarship concerning reflections on global history and world literature in the wake of these developments, with a primary focus on India as a site of extensive theoretical and empirical advances in both disciplinary locations. Inclusive of reflections on the meeting points of these disciplines as well as original research in areas such as Neo-Platonism in world history, histories of violence, and literary histories exploring indentured labor and capitalist transformation, the book offers reflections on conceptual advances in the study of globalization by placing global history and world literature in conversation.

Transgression and Its Limits is a long overdue collection that reads the complex relationship between artistic transgressions and the limits of law and the subject. In mid-twentieth century theoretical understandings of transgressive culture, it is the existence of the limit that guarantees the possibility and success of the transgression. While the limit calls for obedience, it also tempts with the possibility of violation. To breach the limits of the acceptable is to simultaneously define them. However, this classical understanding of transgression may no longer apply under the conditions of post-modernity, late-capitalism, and the simulated or empty transgressions that this period of the simulacra encourages. Context becomes paramount in reading the myriad forms of transgression that encompass politics, aesthetics and the ethics of the obscene; while a range of theoretical perspectives are employed in order to elucidate the economies at work underneath the seemingly transgressive act. The essays selected include explorations of transgression in cinema, photography, art, law, music, philosophy, technology, and both classical and contemporary literature and drama. Professor Fred Botting's (co-author of Bataille and The Tarantinian Ethics) analysis of transgression from Bataille, to Baudrillard and Ballard compliments the collection's concerns about the status of transgression. Aside from fourteen critical essays on topics such as early-modern drama, George Bataille, J. G. Ballard, the female necrophilic, "torture-porn" cinema, and the art of Robert Mapplethorpe and Salvador Dali, there is also a new discussion of transgression between novelist Iain Banks and Professor Roderick Watson (Emeritus at the University of Stirling). With its focus on the paradoxical nature of the impulse to transgress, as well at its wide-ranging historical and artistic