Lionnet / Francoise Lionnet / Shih Minor Transnationalism

1. Auflage 2005
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8664-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 368 Seiten

This collection of essays investigates the importance of "minor discourses" and minority cultures across national boundaries.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lionnet, Françoise

Francoise Lionnet, Lionnet

Shih, Shu-mei

Weitere Mitwirkende

Gearhart, Suzanne

Palumbo-Liu, David

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Thinking through the Minor, Transnationally / Françoise Lionnet and Shu-Mei Shih 1

I. Theorizing

Inclusions: Psychoanalysis, Transnationalism, and Minority Cultures / Suzanne Gearhart 27

Rational and Irrational Choices: Form, Affect and Ethics / David Palumbo-Liu 41

Toward an Ethics of Transnational Encounters, or, "When" does a "Chinese" Woman Become a "Feminist"? / Shu-Mei Shih 73

The Postmodern Subaltern: Globalization Theory and the Subject of Ethnic, Area and Postcolonial Studies / Susan Koshy 109

II. Historicizing

Murder in Montmartre: Race, Sex, and Crime in Jazz Age Paris / Tyler Stovall 135

Giving "Minor" Pasts a Future: Narrating History in Transnational Cinematic Autobiography / Kathleen McHugh 155

Major and Minor Discourses of the Vernacular: Discrepant African Histories / Moradewun Adejunmobi 179

III. Reading, Writing, Performing

Transcolonial Translations: Shakespeare in Mauritius / Françoise Lionnet 201

Postcolonial Theory and the Predicament of "Minor Literature" / Ali Behdad 223

The Calm Beauty of Japan at Almost the Speed of Sound: Sakamoto Kyu and the Translations of Rockabilly / Michael K. Bourdaghs 237

IV. Spatializing

Cartographies of Globalization, Technologies of Gendered Subjectivities: The Dub Poetry of Jean "Binta" Breeze / Jenny Sharpe 261

The Double Logic of Minor Spaces / Seiji M. Lippit 283

National Space as Minor Space: Afro-Brazilian Culture and the Pelourinho / Elizabeth A. Marchant 301

Alternate Geographies and the Melancholy of Mestizaje / Rafael Perez-Torres 317

Contributors 339

Index 343

Über Autor(innen)

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.