Other Renaissances is a collection of twelve essays discussing renaissances outside the Italian and Italian prompted European Renaissance of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. The collection proposes an approach to reframing the Renaissance in which the European Renaissance becomes an imaginative idea, rather than a particular moment in time

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BRENDA DEEN SCHILDGEN is Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of California Davis, USA.

ZHOU GANG is Assistant Professor of Modern Languages at Louisiana State University, USA.

SANDER L. GILMAN is Distinguished Professor of the Liberal Arts and Sciences at Emory University, USA.

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Preface Introduction Suppressed Renaissance: Q: When Is a Renaissance Not a Renaissance? A: When It Is the Ottoman Renaissance! The People's Entertainments: Translation, Popular Fiction and the Nahdah in Egypt Looking Forward to the Past: Nahda, Revolution and the Beginnings of the Ba'th in Iraq Cultural Renaissance Preceded the National Renaissance The Chinese Renaissance: a Transcultural Reading Sri Aurobindo: Renaissance in India and the Italian Renaissance Irish Renaissance The Long Maori Renaissance Globalizing the Harlem Renaissance: Irish, Mexican, and 'Negro' Renaissances in the Survey and Survey Graphic Two Chicago Renaissances with Harlem Between Them Professing the Renaissance during the Cold War: Some Observations on the Creation of the Renaissance in the United States Epilogue