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Author:   Elisabeth Mudimbe-Boyi
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
Imprint:   State University of New York Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.476kg
ISBN:  

9780791453841

ISBN 10:   0791453847
Pages:   343
Publication Date:   17 July 2002
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

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

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While the book offers a critical retrospective appraisal, it is also a reminder of the valuable perspectives and analytical tools that postcolonial studies have offered. - H-Net Reviews (H-Gender-MidEast) Culture is taken here in a very inclusive sense to denote not only ways of living, doing, and forms of expression, but also to designate the responses associated with the sociological determinations of race, gender, and class. The book examines how these and other points of reference affect the relations between peoples and individuals across cultures and geographical boundaries. - F. Abiola Irele, Ohio State University

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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 ecriture poetique, un engagement politique.

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