The Art of Multiculturalism Bharati Mukherjee's Imaginal Politics for the Age of Global Migration /

• Main Authors: Benedikter, Roland (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Hilber, Judith (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Sociology,
• Subjects: Political science.; Sociology.; Postmodernism.; Political Science.; Sociology, general.; Postmodern Philosophy.

This book describes what an "art of multiculturalism" could be and how in turn multiculturalism could be conceived as a form of art. It focuses on the early and middle work of Indian-born U.S. writer Bharati Mukherjee, in particular on her understanding of the "fusion" of literat...

Table of Contents:

• Foreword: Chiara Bottici
• Preface; Bo Stråth
• The Western Global: Lands dof Difference - Lands of Building?
• Evolving the Time-Space Through the Hybridization of Art, Literature, Architecture, Transformation Design and Complexity Science
• A 400-Year Old Legacy: The Traditional Locality and Its Interrelation with Globalized ''Hybrid'' Frameworks
• Setting the Example for Imaginal Politics Through Art, Techniques and Procedures to Integrate Mukherjee's Indian Legacy with Western Post Modernity
• Mukherjee's 20th Century Source: Pop Art of the 1960s: A Similar Inspiration, 400 Years After the Moghuls
• Mukherjee and the Future of Multiculturalism as ''Imaginal Politics''
• Conclusion. .