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This Volume Expands The Concept Of The Black Atlantic By Reaching Beyond The Usual African-american Focus Of The Field, Presenting Fresh Perspectives On Postcolonial Experiences Of Technology And Modernization. It Explores A Variety Of National, Diasporan And Transnational Counternarratives To Western Modernization. Introduction: Relocating Modernization And Technology -- 1. The Presence Of The Past In Peripheral Modernities / Benita Parry -- 2. Black Modernity, Nationalism And Transnationalism: The Challenge Of Black South African Poetry / Laura Chrisman -- 3. Failure To Connect -- Resistant Modernities At National Crossroads: Solomon Plaatje And Mohandas Gandhi / Elleke Boehmer -- 4. Township Modernism / Ian Baucom -- 5. Ulysses And The Shape-shifter: Caribbean Modernity In Pauline Melville's Writings / Saskia Schabio -- 6. V.s. Naipaul: The Limitations Of Transnationalism And Technological Progress / Walter Goebel -- 7. The Technology Of Publicity In The Atlantic Semi-peripheries: Benjamin Franklin, Modernity, And The Nigerian Slave Trade / Stephen Shapiro -- 8. Spectrality's Secret Sharers: Occultism As (post)colonial Affect / Gauri Viswanathan -- 9. Transitionality At Home And Abroad: Some Examples From India And Its Virtual Diaspora / Martina Ghosh-schellhorn -- 10. Technologies In Hanif Kureishi's 'the Body' / Annette Buhler-dietrich -- 11. Travels In Technotopia: Modernization And Technology In Postcolonial Utopian And Dystopian Writing / Ralph Pordzik. Edited By Walter Goebel And Saskia Schabio. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.