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Highlighting minor-to-minor global networks that connect the margins without having to go through the center, Francoise Lionnet and Shu-mei Shih's intriguing collection sparkles when put next to the usual anthologies on globalization. Individual essays on theory, literacy, performance, cinema, music, architecture, and borderlands cumulatively emphasize the multiple outcomes of cultural transversality and horizontal mobility. Reaching beyond the triumphalism of mainstream globalization discourse, Minor Transnationalism demonstrates that the moment for a better understanding of minoritization has truly arrived. --Srinivas Aravamudan, author of Tropicopolitans: Colonialism and Agency, 1688-1804 Minor Transnationalism opens up new approaches to reading minority cultures and major/minor dynamics of capitalist globalization and postcolonial emergence from Paris and Los Angeles to Japan, Jamaica, Nigeria, and Brazil. It wrests the 'transnational' away from tired paradigms of global capitalism or ethnic cooptation and makes it do the work of 'minority-becoming.' The result is a fabulous collection of cultural plenitude, globalized imagination, and critical lucidity. --Rob Wilson, author of Reimagining the American Pacific: From South Pacific to Bamboo Ridge and Beyond Thoughtful and thought-provoking. --Elleke Boehmer, Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History Thought-provoking... Excellent... This rich and wide-ranging collection is probably best understood as an exciting first step-the promise of trans-minor routes and flows yet to be fully charted. --Fran Martin, Cultural Studies Review A remarkable collection of essays... The volume's contributors finesse the argument for transnational cultures presented by Lionnet and Behdad and turn the volume itself into an accomplished exploration of the dynamic nature of minority lives in nation-states. This is one volume that readers will find especially persuasive and astoundingly informative. --Vijay Mishra , Intersections One of the most interesting aspects of the book, then, is this model for cooperative research; it is a collaborative form one might hope to see followed more regularly in similar, interdisciplinary collections in the humanities... There are a number of excellent essays in the volume... -- Marian Eide, Women's Studies Quarterly

"""Highlighting minor-to-minor global networks that connect the margins without having to go through the center, Francoise Lionnet and Shu-mei Shih's intriguing collection sparkles when put next to the usual anthologies on globalization. Individual essays on theory, literacy, performance, cinema, music, architecture, and borderlands cumulatively emphasize the multiple outcomes of cultural transversality and horizontal mobility. Reaching beyond the triumphalism of mainstream globalization discourse, Minor Transnationalism demonstrates that the moment for a better understanding of minoritization has truly arrived.""--Srinivas Aravamudan, author of Tropicopolitans: Colonialism and Agency, 1688-1804 ""Minor Transnationalism opens up new approaches to reading minority cultures and major/minor dynamics of capitalist globalization and postcolonial emergence from Paris and Los Angeles to Japan, Jamaica, Nigeria, and Brazil. It wrests the 'transnational' away from tired paradigms of global capitalism or ethnic cooptation and makes it do the work of 'minority-becoming.' The result is a fabulous collection of cultural plenitude, globalized imagination, and critical lucidity.""--Rob Wilson, author of Reimagining the American Pacific: From South Pacific to Bamboo Ridge and Beyond ""Thoughtful and thought-provoking.""--Elleke Boehmer, Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History ""Thought-provoking... Excellent... This rich and wide-ranging collection is probably best understood as an exciting first step-the promise of trans-minor routes and flows yet to be fully charted.""--Fran Martin, Cultural Studies Review ""A remarkable collection of essays... The volume's contributors finesse the argument for transnational cultures presented by Lionnet and Behdad and turn the volume itself into an accomplished exploration of the dynamic nature of minority lives in nation-states. This is one volume that readers will find especially persuasive and astoundingly informative.""--Vijay Mishra , Intersections ""One of the most interesting aspects of the book, then, is this model for cooperative research; it is a collaborative form one might hope to see followed more regularly in similar, interdisciplinary collections in the humanities... There are a number of excellent essays in the volume...""-- Marian Eide, Women's Studies Quarterly"

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FranÇoise Lionnet is Chair of French and Francophone Studies and Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author of Postcolonial Representations: Women, Literature, Identity. Shu-mei Shih is Associate Professor of Asian Languages and Cultures, Comparative Literature, and Asian American Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author of The Lure of the Modern: Writing Modernism in Semicolonial China, 1917–1937.

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