Mudimbe-Boyi Beyond Dichotomies

Histories, Identities, Cultures, and the Challenge of Globalization
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-7914-8855-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 343 Seiten

Reihe: SUNY series, Explorations in Postcolonial Studies

Confronts the cultural challenges of globalization.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mudimbe-Boyi, Elisabeth

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Preface
Elisabeth Mudimbe-Boyi
PART 1. BEYOND DICHOTOMIES
1. The Perspective of the World: Globalization Then and Now
Michel-Rolph Trouillot
2. Modernity and Periphery: Toward a Global and Relational Analysis
Mary Louise Pratt
3. Beyond Dichotomies: Communicative Action and Cultural Hegemony
Emmanuel Chukwudi Eze
4. Mankind's Proverbial Imagination: Critical Perspectives on Human Universals As a Global Challenge
Mineke Schipper
PART 2. CONTESTED PLACES, CONTESTED (SELF) ASCRIPTIONS
5. Bringing History Back In: Of Diasporas, Hybridities, Places, and Histories
Arif Dirlik 6. The Romance of Africa: Three Narratives by African-American Women
Eileen Julien
7. Ethnicity As Otherness in British Identity Politics
Robert J. C. Young
Chapter Eight Reincarnating Immigrant Biography: On Migration and Transmigration
Akhil Gupta
PART 3. TRANSLATING PLACES, TRANSLATING AMBIVALENCE
9. Warped Speech: The Politics of Global Translation
Emily Apter
10. National Identity and Immigration: American Polity, Nativism, and the "Alien"
Ali Behdad
11. Richard Wright As a Specular Border Intellectual: The Politics of Identification in Black Power
Abdul JanMohamed
12. Beyond Dichotomies: Translation/Transculturation and the Colonial Difference
Walter D. Mignolo and Freya Schiwy
Conclusion: The Unforeseeable Diversity of the World
Edouard Glissant (English translation by Haun Saussy)
About the Contributors
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Elisabeth Mudimbe-Boyi is Associate Professor of French and Comparative Literature at Stanford University and the author of L'Oeuvre romanesque de Jacques-Stephen Alexis: une écriture poétique, un engagement politique.