Alternative modernities / edited by Dilip Parameshwar Gaonkar. - x, 363 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. - A millennial quartet book . - Millennial quartet book. .

"Public culture books.".

Includes bibliographical references and index.

On alternative modernities / Dilip Parameshwar Gaonkar -- Settler modernity and the quest for an indigenous tradition / Elizabeth A. Povinelli -- Translation, imperialism, and national self-definition in Russia / Andrew Wachtel -- Shanghai modern: reflections on urban culture in China in the 1930s / Leo Ou-fan Lee -- Adda, Calcutta: dwelling in modernity / Kipesh Chakrabarty -- Miniaturizing modernity: Shahzia Sikander in conversation with Homi K. Bhabha / Robert McCarthy, editor -- Two theories of modernity / Charles Taylor -- On reconciling cosmopolitan unity and national diversity / Thomas McCarthy -- Camera Zanzibar / William Cunningham Bissell -- "Left to the imagination": Indian nationalisms and female sexuality in Trinidad / Tejaswini Niranjana -- Afro-Modernity: temporality, politics, and the African diaspora / Michael Hanchard -- Modes of citizenship in Mexico / Claudio Lomnitz -- Modernist ruins: national narratives and architectural forms /Beatriz Jaguaribe.

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Cultural pluralism
International relations and culture
Civilization, Modern
East and West
North and south

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