Otherwise Occupied: Pedagogies of Alterity and the Brahminization of Theory

OTHERWISE OCCUPIED......Page 4
Contents......Page 6
Acknowledgments......Page 8
INTRODUCTION......Page 10
1. CRITICAL BACKGROUND TO POSTSTRUCTURALIST THEORIES AND PEDAGOGIES OF ALTERITY......Page 14
SIMULATED BATTLES......Page 24
THE INSTITUTIONALIZATIONOF MULTICULTURALISM......Page 25
THE METHODOLOGY OF MULTICULTURALISM......Page 27
MARKETING THE MARGIN......Page 33
MASKING THE METANARRATIVE OF RACE......Page 36
DEFINITIONS AND THE SCOPE OF POSTCOLONIAL CRITICISM......Page 40
HISTORY AND POSTCOLONIAL SUBJECTIVITY......Page 43
THE POSTCOLONIAL CRITIC......Page 45
THE REPRESSIVE ALLURE OF POSTCOLONIAL CRITICISM......Page 52
4. THE BRAHMINIZATION OF THEORY:COMMODITY FETISHISM AND FALSE CONSCIOUSNESS......Page 58
INTRODUCTION......Page 59
POSTCOLONIAL CRITICISM’S DISCIPLINARY ROOTS......Page 62
COMMODIFYING POSTCOLONIAL THEORY AND TYPE-CASTING THE CRITIC......Page 68
FALSE CONSCIOUSNESS......Page 73
COMMODITY FETISHISM AND BRAHMINIZATION......Page 77
INTRODUCTION......Page 80
SPOKESPERSONSHIP......Page 81
THE EXILE......Page 83
THE NOMAD......Page 92
A WAND’RING MINSTREL I,A THING OF SHREDS AND PATCHES......Page 98
THEORY CONFRONTS REALITY......Page 100
RHETORIC......Page 103
THE FALLACI AFFAIR......Page 110
FINAL BELIEFS......Page 113
INTRODUCTION......Page 116
POSITIVE DISCRIMINATION IN INDIA......Page 118
AFFIRMATIVE ACTION IN THE UNITED STATES......Page 122
COSMETIC ENHANCEMENT......Page 126
Conclusion: THE COLLECTING OF THE OTHER......Page 130
Notes......Page 138
Bibliography......Page 150
C......Page 168
H......Page 169
M......Page 170
S......Page 171
Ž......Page 172