The transnationalism of ordinary lives threatens the stability of national identity and unsettles the framework of national histories and biography. This book takes mobility, not nation, as its frame, and captures a rich array of lives, from the elite to the subaltern, that have crossed national, racial and cartographic boundaries. INDICE: List of Illustrations - Acknowledgements - Notes on Contributors -Introduction; D.Deacon, P.Russell A.Woollacott - PART I: WRITING LIVES TRANSNATIONALLY - Issues and Methods - A Story with an Argument: Writing the Transnational Life of a Sea Captain's Wife; M.Hodes - Peripheral Visions: Heterography and Writing the Transnational Life of Sara Baartman; P.Scully - Boundaries Cross Bodies - Writing the Entrapped Nations of Indigenous Australia into Being; P.van Toorn - Dancing With Shadows: Biography and the Making and Remaking ofthe Atlantic World; M.McDonnell - PART II: OPPORTUNITIES - Fantasies - Opportunists and Impostors in the British Imperial World: The Tale of John Dow, Convict, and Edward, Viscount Lascelles; K.McKenzie - Imperial Melodies: Globalizing the Lives of Cliff Richard and Engelbert Humperdinck; A.Carton - Colonial Origins and Audience Collusion: The Merle Oberon Story in 1930s Australia; A.Woollacott - Livelihoods - Herbert Hoover and the Transnational Lives of Engineers; C.Pursell - Manyat's 'Sole Delight': Travelling Knowledge in Western Australia's Southwest, 1830s; T.Shellam - Connecting Lives: Elihu Yale and the British East India Company; R.Sudan - Performances - 'That will allow me to be my own woman': Margaret Anglin, Modernity, and Transnational Stages, 1890s-1940s;C.Morgan - Made on Stage: Transnational Performance and the Worlds of Katherine Dunham from London to Dakar; P.M.Von Eschen - PART III: QUESTS - Subaltern Crossings: Looking for Liberty? - The Transnational Lives of African-American Colonists to Liberia; B.Dorsey - Resistance in Exile: Anthony Martin Fernando,Australian Aboriginal Activist, Internationalist, and Traveller in Europe; F.Paisleyii - Intimate Crossings: Looking for Love - 'Citizens of the World'?: Jane Franklin's Transnational Fantasies; P.Russell - The Meanings of a Transnational Life: The Case of Mary Berenson; R.Pesman - PART IV: COSMOPOLITANISM - The World at Home - Lowe Kong Meng Appeals to International Law: Transnational Lives Caught Between Empire and Nation; M.Lake - Becoming Cosmopolitan: JudithAnderson in Sydney, Australia, 1913-1918; D.Deacon - At Home in the World - AWorld-War-II Odyssey: Michael Danos, En Route from Riga to New York; S.Fitzpatrick - Donald Friend: An Australian Artist's Affair with Italy; I.Britain - Gypsy in the Sun: The Transnational Life of Rosita Forbes; H-M.Teo -
- ISBN: 978-0-230-23870-1
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 328
- Fecha Publicación: 29/01/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés