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Preliminary material /Editors Representation Matters -- Introduction: Representation Matters /Anette Hoffmann and Esther Peeren -- Alterity and Identities: The Paradoxes of Authenticity /Sudeep Dasgupta -- Insularity and Identity at Odds in Martinique: 1973 to 2004 /Marc Brudzinski -- The West between Culture(s) and Collective Identity: Notes for a Present Problematic /Nimrod Ben-Cnaan -- Ubuntu, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and South African National Identity /Hanneke Stuit -- Resistance or Compliance?: The Problem of Orientalism in Osman Hamdi's Paintings /Gülru Çakmak -- Romani Identity Formation and the Globalization of Holocaust Discourse /Huub van Baar -- Similarity and Difference: The Appearance of Suffering at the Strokestown Famine Museum /Niamh Ann Kelly -- Resignifying Genesis, Identity, and Landscape: Routes versus Roots /Anette Hoffmann -- From Salsipuedes to Tabaré: Race, Space, and the Uruguayan Subject /Vannina Sztainbok -- Bolivian Indigenous Identities: Reshaping the Terms of Political Debate, 1994–2004 /Claret Vargas -- Performative Constructions of Female Identity at a Hindu Ritual: Some Thoughts on the Agentive Dimension /Beatrix Hauser -- "We Are Like Fish That Were Reeled In": Peasant Understandings of Modernity in Zimbabwe /Guy Thompson -- Silence, Absence, Loss: Chineseness in Post-Authoritarian Indonesia /Sonja van Wichelen -- Moving Identities: Mythology and Metaphor in André Brink's Praying Mantis /Saskia Lourens -- The Contributors /Editors Representation Matters -- Index /Editors Representation Matters.

Preliminary material /Editors Constellations of the Transnational -- Cultural Constellations, Critique and Modernity: An Introduction /Sudeep Dasgupta -- Diasporic Architecture, Whiteness and the Cultural Politics of Space: In the Footsteps of the Italian Forum /Joseph Pugliese -- "Here to Stay": The Performance of Accents in the Work of Linton Kwesi Johnson and Lemn Sissay /Cornelia Gräbner -- Carnival Politics and the Territory of the Street /Esther Peeren -- Shadow Republic: The Concept of Place in Patriot Movement Discourse /Deborah Noel Kaplan -- Politics of Identity and Critical Judgment: Gesher Theater in Israel /Olga Gershenson -- Where in the World? Cultural Geopolitics of East/West Identities /Bianca Kai Isaki -- Whither Culture? Globalization, Media and the Promises of Cultural Studies /Sudeep Dasgupta -- Notes on the Contributors /Editors Constellations of the Transnational -- Index /Editors Constellations of the Transnational.

This volume sheds new light on how today's peripheries are made, lived, imagined and mobilized in a context of rapidly advancing globalization. Focusing on peripheral spaces, mobilities and aesthetics, it presents critical readings of, among others, Indian caste quarters, the Sahara, the South African backyard and European migration, as well as films, novels and artworks about marginalized communities and repressed histories. Together, these readings insist that the peripheral not only needs more visibility in political, economic and cultural terms, but is also invaluable for creating alternative perspectives on the globalizing present. Peripheral Visions combines sociological, cultural, literary and philosophical perspectives on the periphery, and highlights peripheral innovation and futurity to counter the lingering association of the peripheral with stagnation and backwardness.

Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1 Introduction. Other Globes: Past and Peripheral Imaginations of Globalization -- Globe, Earth, World, and Planet -- Situating Global Imaginations -- The Ascent of Modern Globalism -- Critiques of Modern Globalism -- Chapter Outline -- Works Cited -- Chapter 2 Protest from the Margins: Emerging Global Networks in the Early Sixteenth Century and Their German Detractors -- Early Modern Globalization: Theoretical Considerations -- Early Modern Globalization in the Context of European Humanism -- Economic and Financial Objections to Global Trade -- Nationalist and Xenophobic Responses -- Global Trade as Violation of Divine Order and Sign of Moral Decline -- Conclusion: Anti-Globalization Rhetoric Then and Now -- Works Cited -- Chapter 3 Being in the Globe: Hieronymus Bosch's The Garden of Earthly Delights at the Fringes of Modern Globalism -- Overlapping Geographies -- Modernity and Existential Space -- Deconstructing Spatialities -- Inhabiting the Globe -- Coda: Dwelling and Domes -- Works Cited -- Chapter 4 The Nature of the Historical: Forming Worlds, Resisting the Temptation -- Naturalesa -- Claims of Culture -- Reclaiming History -- Works Cited -- Chapter 5 H. G. Wells and Planetary Prose -- Works Cited -- Chapter 6 Visions of Global Modernity in Hispano-Filipino Literature -- Introduction -- Writing the Philippines in the Language of Empire -- Envisioning a Modern Philippines -- Refiguring the Mapamundi -- Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Chapter 7 Global Africa -- The Global Vision of African Writing -- Pan-Africanism -- Transnational Africa -- Transnation -- Global Africa-Beyond Diaspora -- Works Cited -- Chapter 8 World-Imagining from Below -- Works Cited -- Chapter 9 Novelization in Decolonization, or, Postcolonialism Reconsidered -- Libertarian Optics.

Chapter 1. Introduction: Conceptualizing Hinterlands -- PART I Materialities: Extraction, Logistics -- Chapter 2. Belly of the World: Toxicity, Innocence, and Indigestibility in Plastic China -- Chapter 3. Cultivating Hinterland: What Lies Behind Agnes Denes's Wheatfield? -- Chapter 4. Dividing, Connecting, and Complicating the Hinterland: The Lower Orange River/ !Garib -- Chapter 5. The Coast Bouleverses at Kolkata -- Chapter 6. Reclaiming the (Hinter)land: Lake Texcoco and the Airport That Never Was -- Chapter 7. Hinterlands of Extraction, Climate Change, and South African Energy Companies -- PART II Affectivities: Abandonment and Dreaming -- Chapter 8."Washed with Sun": Landscaping South Africa's Hinterlands.-Chapter 9. Swamp Things: The Wetland Roots of American Authoritarianism -- Chapter 10. Ambivalence and Resistance in Contemporary Imaginations of US Capitalist Hinterlands -- Chapter 11. An Arc Beyond Stasis: Activism in the Hinterland-facing Fictions of Alex La Guma and Zoë Wicomb -- Chapter 12. "Reservoirs of the Subconscious of a People": The Local, National, and Global Resonances of a Lost Hinterland -- Chapter 13. Biophilia in the Hinterland: Symbiotic Affects in Robinson in Ruins -- PART III Ecologies: Care, Transformation -- Chapter 14. The Hinterland at Sea -- Chapter 15. Wet and Dry Hinterlands: Pluviality and Drought in J. M. Coetzee's Life and Times of Michael K.-Chapter 16. The Animal Hinterland in Marieke Lucas Rijneveld's My Heavenly Favorite -- Chapter 17. Compound Focalization in the Literary Hinterlands -- Chapter 18. Behind Johannesburg: Plants and Possible Futures in an Industrialized Hinterland -- Chapter 19. Hinterland, Underground.

This open access book considers the concept of the hinterland as a crucial tool for understanding the global and planetary present as a time defined by the lasting legacies of colonialism, increasing labor precarity under late capitalist regimes, and looming climate disasters. Traditionally seen to serve a (colonial) port or market town, the hinterland here becomes a lens to attend to the times and spaces shaped and experienced across the received categories of the urban, rural, wilderness or nature. In straddling these categories, the concept of the hinterland foregrounds the human and more-than-human lively processes and forms of care that go on even in sites defined by capitalist extraction and political abandonment. Bringing together scholars from the humanities and social sciences, the book rethinks hinterland materialities, affectivities, and ecologies across places and cultural imaginations, Global North and South, urban and rural, and land and water.

Introduction: Legibility in the Age of Signs and Machines /Pepita Hesselberth , Janna Houwen , Esther Peeren and Ruby de Vos -- Desire -- Legible Affects: The Melodramatic Imagination in Painting /Ernst van Alphen -- Overreading: Intentions, Mistakes and Lies /Colin Davis -- Freud's Conquest of the Dreamscape: Legibility and Power in Freud's "Specimen Dream" /Seth Rogoff -- Illegible Desire: James Purdy's Resistance to Sexual Identity /Looi van Kessel -- Justice -- The Legibility of Legislation in Kafka's "In the Penal Colony" /Siebe Bluijs -- Lex Fugit: On Acts of Legibility /Isabel Capeloa Gil -- Encountering the Law: Machinic and Theatrical Space in Criminal Prosecution /Tessa de Zeeuw -- Machine -- OK, Computer? Understanding Cybernetic Personhood /Yasco Horsman -- Machine Language and the Illegibility of the Zwischen /David Gauthier -- Connectivity, Legibility and the Mass Image /Sean Cubitt -- Too Much to Read? Negotiating (Il)legibility between Close and Distant Reading /Inge van de Ven -- Heritage -- Between Nostalgia and Utopia: A Conversation on the Legibility of Film Archives /Peter Verstraten and Giovanna Fossati -- Intersecting Frames of Legibility in Conversion de Piritu (1690): A Remodeling of Paratexts in the Digital Setting /Roxana Sarion -- "That the Section 'Weapons' Had to Be Plentiful Is Evident for Aceh": The Readability of Colonial Conquest in Dutch Ethnographic Exhibitions /Anke Bosma -- Ledgers and Legibility: A Conversation on the Significance of Noise within Digital Colonial Archives /Katrine Dirckinck-Holmfeld and Pepita Hesselberth -- Coda -- Representational Assemblages: Forms, Concerns, Affects /Frederik Tygstrup.