Beyond Dichotomies

Histories, Identities, Cultures, and the Challenge of Globalization

Häftad, Engelska, 2002

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Confronts the cultural challenges of globalization.Beyond Dichotomies examines literary texts, cultural production, and concrete local practices within the context of modernity and globalization by focusing on the ways in which some societies confront the complexity of cultures reflected in new forms of knowledge, narratives, and subjectivities. The contributors explore how particular societies negotiate the relations between the global and the local, and use a geographical, comparative perspective combined with an interdisciplinary approach to offer a diversity of views and illuminate the cultural impact of globalization on different societies around the world: Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas. These societies face complex questions regarding people's histories, identities, and cultures that embody the ambivalence, contradictions, and anxieties generated by the process of globalization. The contributors provide a compelling conclusion for a rethinking and reconfiguration of cultures and intercultural relations in today's global world in which dichotomized representations coexist with a discourse of globalization.

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Utgivningsdatum2002-07-17
Vikt476 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor343
FörlagState University of New York Press
ISBN9780791453841

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Acknowledgments PrefaceElisabeth Mudimbe-Boyi PART 1. BEYOND DICHOTOMIES 1. The Perspective of the World: Globalization Then and NowMichel-Rolph Trouillot 2. Modernity and Periphery: Toward a Global and Relational AnalysisMary Louise Pratt 3. Beyond Dichotomies: Communicative Action and Cultural HegemonyEmmanuel Chukwudi Eze 4. Mankind's Proverbial Imagination: Critical Perspectives on Human Universals As a Global ChallengeMineke Schipper PART 2. CONTESTED PLACES, CONTESTED (SELF) ASCRIPTIONS 5. Bringing History Back In: Of Diasporas, Hybridities, Places, and HistoriesArif Dirlik 6. The Romance of Africa: Three Narratives by African-American WomenEileen Julien 7. Ethnicity As Otherness in British Identity PoliticsRobert J. C. Young Chapter Eight Reincarnating Immigrant Biography: On Migration and TransmigrationAkhil Gupta PART 3. TRANSLATING PLACES, TRANSLATING AMBIVALENCE 9. Warped Speech: The Politics of Global TranslationEmily 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 PowerAbdul JanMohamed 12. Beyond Dichotomies: Translation/Transculturation and the Colonial DifferenceWalter D. Mignolo and Freya Schiwy Conclusion: The Unforeseeable Diversity of the WorldEdouard Glissant (English translation by Haun Saussy) About the Contributors Index

"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