margin of margin: Profile of an Unrepentant Postcolonial Collaborator

Acknowledgements......Page 2
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The subaltern cannot speak.  There is no virtue in global laundry lists with “woman” as a pious item (Gayatri Chakrabarty Spivak, 1988).......Page 22
II.  Two Derridas......Page 25
III. Derrida vulgarized......Page 30
IV. Derrida’s Supplement.......Page 32
V. Deconstruction Decolonization......Page 35
VI. Elaborating through Borges......Page 39
I. Closure for Third World......Page 43
II. Spivak Disinterred......Page 44
III. Spivak versus Resnick-Wolff......Page 49
IV. Can the Savage Speak?......Page 50
V. Re-entry of Hegel: Strategic Essentialism......Page 55
VI. Limits of a Closure: Mimicry of Overdetermination......Page 56
I. Laclau-Mouffe but Not Quite......Page 61
II. Passive Revolution: a Hegelian Reading of Gramsci......Page 62
III. From Passive Revolution to Passive Re-evaluation......Page 66
IV. Syntax of Hegemony in a Postmodern Context......Page 69
V. Beyond Laclau-Mouffe’s Hegemony......Page 78
I.  How It Did Not Start......Page 85
II.  A Section Written a Decade Ago......Page 86
III.  A Section That Is Not Ours......Page 90
IV.  Rewriting Gramsci in the Context of Cultural Differences......Page 95
V.  Some Entirely New Conceptual Tools......Page 98
VI.  Cross-comparing with Other Positions......Page 101
VII.  Sameness, Difference and Diversity......Page 102
I. Colony and Postcolony......Page 107
II. Hegemony as a Lack of Hegemony......Page 112
III. Bhabha’s Notion of Hybridity......Page 117
IV. Colonial Difference and Colonial Equality......Page 125
II. Hegel’s Logic......Page 131
III. Hegel sans Essence......Page 136
IV.  Margin of Margin......Page 140
V.  Synthetic Hegemony, Symptom, Margin of Margin:               The Story of the Ramayana......Page 144
VI. How Sita Spoke to the Deaf......Page 147
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