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Transcultural Experiments

Russian and American Models of Creative Communication

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  • © 1999

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  1. Ellen E. Berry
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  2. Mikhail N. Epstein
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Table of contents (25 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Ellen E. Berry, Mikhail N. Epstein
      Pages 1-13

  3. History

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 14-14
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    2. From Culturology to Transculture

      • Mikhail Epstein
      Pages 15-30

    3. Collective Improvisation And Transcultural Consciousness

      • Mikhail Epstein
      Pages 31-55

    4. Postmodern Avant-Gardes and Cultural Reinvention

      • Ellen E. Berry
      Pages 56-77

  4. Theory

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 78-78
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    2. Definitions

      1. Transculture in the Context of Contemporary Critical Theories
        • Mikhail Epstein
        Pages 79-90
      2. From Difference To Interference
        • Mikhail Epstein
        Pages 91-101
      3. Transculture and Society
        • Mikhail Epstein
        Pages 102-112
      4. The Rehumanization of the Humanities
        • Mikhail Epstein
        Pages 113-120
      5. Nomadic Desires and Transcultural Becomings
        • Ellen E. Berry
        Pages 121-140

    3. Infinitions

      1. How Does Newness Enter the Postmodern World?
        • Ellen E. Berry
        Pages 142-151
      2. The Permanence of Newness and Spaces for Difference: From History to Geography
        • Mikhail Epstein
        Pages 152-163
      3. The Ethics Of Imagination
        • Mikhail Epstein
        Pages 164-168
      4. A Transcultural Imaginary
        • Ellen E. Berry
        Pages 169-175

  5. Practice

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 176-176
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    2. The Lawlessness of Genres

      • Ellen E. Berry
      Pages 177-183

    3. Genres

      1. On The Birth Of Genres
        • Mikhail Epstein
        Pages 184-188
      2. An Essay On the Essay
        • Mikhail Epstein
        Pages 189-194
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Contemporary processes of globalization have had a profound impact on cultural production and dissemination both intra- and cross-culturally. The dissemination of cultures on a global scale has led to multiple and complex effects, among them the formation of radical new modes of cultural interaction, transcultural flows, and hybridized knowledges, forms not easily understandable in terms of traditional models of discrete national or ethnic cultures/subcultures. Transcultural Experiments develops new scholarly and creative strategies out of this intersection of cultural traditions, specifically in Russia and the United States. Ellen E. Berry and Mikhail N. Epstein define and enact a transcultural method as an alternative to the legacies of cultural divisions and hegemony that have dominated both Western and Second Worlds. The book introduces a system of original concepts and genres of writing that will help in mapping twenty-first century global culture: 'transculture' (vs. multiculturalism), 'interference' (vs. difference), 'potentiation' (vs. deconstruction), ethics of imagination, and collective improvisation. The authors make a revolutionary argument in cultural studies that will be of profound interest to anyone concerned with finding new modes of intercultural communication between the former First and Second Worlds.

About the authors

ELLEN E. BERRY is Associate Professor of English and Co-Chair of the English Department at Bowling Green State University.

MIKHAIL N. EPSTEIN is Associate Professor in the Department of Russian and East Asian Languages and Cultures at Emory University.

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