CONTENTS

1. List of Illustrations
2. Acknowledgments
3. Introduction
4. 1    Histories of Cultural Fabrication
5. Making nations
6. Who studies whom and how
7. The study of culture
8. Statelessness and dispossession
9. 2    Occidentalizing the Orient: Modern Turkey
10. Turkey and Orientalism
11. Turkey, modernization, and reform
12. Early reforms and hats
13. Headscarves, veils, and women’s clothing
14. Banning the headscarf
15. 3    The Global Turkish Artist
16. Ahmet Öğüt’s poetic transpositions
17. Hatice Güleryüz’s heteroglossias
18. Servet Kocyigit’s reconstructions
19. Halil Altindere’s defamations
20. 4    Art and the Islamic Female Diaspora
21. Shirin Neshat: From darkness to dignity
22. Ghada Amer: The provocation of pleasure
23. Nasim Nasr: Layered destinies
24. Mona Hatoum: Forever in transit
25. 5    “China,” or Contemporary Chinoiserie
26. “China” is a room of mirrors
27. Filmic projections and interjections
28. Ip Man: Kinship from conflict
29. Marco Polo: Discovery and displacement
30. 6    Japanese Recreations: Between Kawakubo and Cosplay
31. Meiji and modernization
32. “Japanese” fashion
33. Kawakubo: “I want to be forgotten”
34. Nabokov meets Nippon: Lolita and cosplay
35. 7    Indian Interdependence
36. A culture of estrangement
37. Contemporary Indian fashion
38. 8    From Primitive to Provocative: First Nations in End Times
39. Noble savagery, guilt, and globalization
40. Aboriginal art: Origins
41. Miscegenated cultures
42. Aboriginal art is white, or not black enough
43. Occupying multiple spaces
44. 9    Conclusion: Floating Signifiers
45. Notes
46. Bibliography
47. Index

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