Beyond Dichotomies: Histories, Identities, Cultures, and the Challenge of Globalization (Explorations in Postcolonial Studies)

Beyond Dichotomies......Page 4
Contents......Page 8
Acknowledgments......Page 10
Preface by Elisabeth Mudimbe-Boyi......Page 12
PART 1: Beyond Dichotomies......Page 28
1. The Perspective of the World: Globalization Then and Now by MICHEL-ROLPH TROUILLOT......Page 30
2. Modernity and Periphery: Toward a Global and Relational Analysis by MARY LOUISE PRATT......Page 48
3. Beyond Dichotomies: Communicative Action and Cultural Hegemony by EMMANUEL CHUKWUDI EZE......Page 76
4. Mankind’s Proverbial Imagination: Critical Perspectives on Human Universals As a Global Challenge by MINEKE SCHIPPER......Page 96
PART 2: Contested Places, Contested (Self) Ascriptions......Page 118
5. Bringing History Back In: Of Diasporas, Hybridities, Places, and Histories by ARIF DIRLIK......Page 120
6. The Romance of Africa: Three Narratives by African-American Women by EILEEN JULIEN......Page 156
7. Ethnicity As Otherness in British Identity Politics by ROBERT J. C. YOUNG......Page 180
8. Reincarnating Immigrant Biography: On Migration and Transmigration by AKHIL GUPTA......Page 196
PART 3: Translating Places, Translating Ambivalence......Page 210
9. Warped Speech: The Politics of Global Translation by EMILY APTER......Page 212
10. National Identity and Immigration American Polity, Nativism, and the “Alien” by ALI BEHDAD......Page 228
11. Richard Wright As a Specular Border Intellectual: The Politics of Identification in Black Power by ABDUL JANMOHAMED......Page 258
12. Beyond Dichotomies: Translation/Transculturation and the Colonial Difference by WALTER D. MIGNOLO and FREYA SCHIWY......Page 278
CONCLUSION: The Unforeseeable Diversity of the World by EDOUARD GLISSANT (translated by Haun Saussy)......Page 314
About the Contributors......Page 324
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