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Author:   Jamil Khader
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint:   Lexington Books
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 22.80cm
Weight:   0.318kg
ISBN:  

9780739197554

ISBN 10:   073919755
Pages:   212
Publication Date:   02 June 2014
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction: The Poetics and Politics of Displacing: The Extimate Locations of Postcolonial Feminisms Chapter One: “The Meaning of So Many Roads”: Geography, Circular Migrancy, and Decolonizing the Commonwealth in Puerto Rican Feminist Writings Chapter Two: “None of the Women are at Home”: Culture, Unhomeliness, and The Politics of Expansion in Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions Chapter Three: “Escaping the Claustrophobia of Belonging”: Identity, Transracial Ontology, and Rewriting the Columbus Quincentenary in Louise Erdrich’s Fiction Chapter Four: ""We Palestinians are the Jews of the Arab World"": The Politics of Solidarity, the Ethics of Otherness, and Anti-Colonial Internationalism in Raymonda Tawil’s My Home, My Prison Conclusion: Did Anyone Say Revolution? Postcolonial Feminisms, Cosmopolitics, and the End of Revolutionary Politics

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This is a provocative work on a timely subject. In a series of trenchant analyses of Puerto Rican writers, as well as Dangarembga, Erdrich, and Tawil, the author makes the case for extimate subjectivities as a key to the interventions of postcolonial feminism. It is a fascinating account of radical possibility in contemporary postcolonial feminist writing. -- Peter Hitchcock, Professor of English, The Graduate Center, City University of New York This is a hands-on, eloquent, and refreshingly honest kind of criticism, rooted in feminism while drawn to community organizing and its battle with the neoliberal feminization of poverty. Unimpressed by the anodyne formulas of cosmo-theory, Khader takes us through a series of superb close-readings from the intimacy of the domestic to the ex-timacy of the political, giving us along the way one of the best defenses anywhere of internationalism as an ethos, an aesthetic, and a politics. A new kind of theory and maybe (hopefully) its future. -- Timothy Brennan, University of Minnesota

This is a provocative work on a timely subject. In a series of trenchant analyses of Puerto Rican writers, as well as Dangarembga, Erdrich, and Tawil, the author makes the case for “extimate subjectivities” as a key to the interventions of postcolonial feminism. It is a fascinating account of radical possibility in contemporary postcolonial feminist writing. -- Peter Hitchcock, Professor of English, The Graduate Center, City University of New York This is a hands-on, eloquent, and refreshingly honest kind of criticism, rooted in feminism while drawn to community organizing and its battle with the neoliberal “feminization of poverty.” Unimpressed by the anodyne formulas of “cosmo-theory,” Khader takes us through a series of superb close-readings from the intimacy of the domestic to the ex-timacy of the political, giving us along the way one of the best defenses anywhere of internationalism as an ethos, an aesthetic, and a politics. A new kind of theory and maybe (hopefully) its future. -- Timothy Brennan, University of Minnesota

This is a provocative work on a timely subject. In a series of trenchant analyses of Puerto Rican writers, as well as Dangarembga, Erdrich, and Tawil, the author makes the case for extimate subjectivities as a key to the interventions of postcolonial feminism. It is a fascinating account of radical possibility in contemporary postcolonial feminist writing. -- Peter Hitchcock, professor of English, women's studies, and film studies at the City University of New York, Graduate School and University Center This is a hands-on, eloquent, and refreshingly honest kind of criticism, rooted in feminism while drawn to community organizing and its battle with the neoliberal feminization of poverty. Unimpressed by the anodyne formulas of cosmo-theory, Khader takes us through a series of superb close-readings from the intimacy of the domestic to the ex-timacy of the political, giving us along the way one of the best defenses anywhere of internationalism as an ethos, an aesthetic, and a politics. A new kind of theory and maybe (hopefully) its future. -- Timothy Brennan, University of Minnesota

Author Information

Jamil Khader is professor of English at Stetson University, where he teaches postcolonial literature and theory, transnational feminism, and popular fiction. He is the co-editor, with Molly Rothenberg, of Žižek Now: Current Perspectives in Žižek Studies (Polity Press 2013). His articles appeared in Feminist Studies, The Journal of Postcolonial Writing, College Literature, MELUS: The Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States, Ariel: Review of International English Literature, Children’s Literature, The Journal of Homosexuality, The Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, and other journals and collections.

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