Transnational lives
| Titel: | Transnational lives : biographies of global modernity, 1700 - present / ed. by Desley Deacon ... |
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| Veröffentlicht: | Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010 |
| Umfang: | XVI, 309 Seiten : Illustrationen ; 22x14x2 cm |
| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Schriftenreihe/ mehrbändiges Werk: |
The Palgrave Macmillan transnational history series |
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| ISBN: | 023023870X ; 9780230238701 |
| Hinweise zum Inhalt: |
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Kurzbeschreibung Ausführliche Beschreibung Autorenbiografie Cover |
X
- List of Illustrations
- p. viii
- Acknowledgements
- p. x
- Foreword
- p. xi
- Notes on Contributors
- p. xiii
- Introduction
- p. 1
- Part I
- Writing Lives Transnationally
- Issues and Methods:
- 1
- A Story with an Argument: Writing the Transnational Life of a Sea Captain's Wife
- p. 15
- 2
- Peripheral Visions: Heterography and Writing the Transnational Life of Sara Baartman
- p. 27
- Boundaries Cross Bodies:
- 3
- Writing the Entrapped Nations of Indigenous Australia into Being
- p. 41
- 4
- Dancing with Shadows: Biography and the Making and Remaking of the Atlantic World
- p. 54
- Part II
- Opportunities
- Fantasies:
- 5
- Opportunists and Impostors in the British Imperial World: The Tale of John Dow, Covict, and Edward, Viscount Lascelles
- p. 69
- 6
- Imperial Melodies: Globalizing the Lives of Cliff Richard and Engelbert Humperdinck
- p. 82
- 7
- Colonial Origins and Audience Collusion: The Merle Oberon Story in 1930s Australia
- p. 96
- Livelihoods:
- 8
- Herbert Hoover and the Transnational Lives of Engineers
- p. 109
- 9
- Manyat's 'Sole Delight': Travelling Knowledge in Western Australia's Southwest, 1830s
- p. 121
- 10
- Connecting Lives: Elihu Yale and the British East India Company
- p. 133
- Performances:
- 11
- 'That will allow me to be my own woman': Margaret Anglin, Modernity and Transnational Stages, 1890s-1940s
- p. 144
- 12
- Made on Stage: Transnational Performance and the Worlds of Katherine Dunham from London to Dakar
- p. 156
- Part III
- Quests
- Subaltern Crossings: Looking for Liberty:
- 13
- The Transnational Lives of African American Colonists to Liberia
- p. 171
- 14
- Resistance in Exile: Anthony Martin Fernando, Australian Aboriginal Activist, Internationalist and Traveller in Europe
- p. 183
- Intimate Crossings: Looking for Love:
- 15
- 'Citizens of the World?': Jane Franklin's Transnational Fantasies
- p. 195
- 16
- The Meanings of a Transnational Life: The Case of Mary Berenson
- p. 209
- Part IV
- Cosmopolitanism
- The World at Home:
- 17
- Lowe Kong Meng Appeals to International Law: Transnational Lives Caught Between Empire and Nation
- p. 223
- 18
- Becoming Cosmopolitan: Judith Anderson in Sydney, Australia, 1913-1918
- p. 238
- At Home in the World:
- 19
- A World War II Odyssey: Michael Danos, En Route from Riga to New York
- p. 252
- 20
- Donald Friend: An Australian Artist's Affair with Italy
- p. 263
- 21
- Gypsy in the Sun: The Transnational Life of Rosita Forbes
- p. 273
- Index
- p. 286
