Lionnet / Francoise Lionnet / Shih The Creolization of Theory

1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9332-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 320 Seiten

This bold intervention in debates about the role of theory in the humanities advocates the development of a reciprocal, relational, and intersectional critical methodology attentive to the legacies of colonialism.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lionnet, Françoise

Francoise Lionnet, Lionnet

Shih, Shu-mei

Weitere Mitwirkende

Balibar, Étienne

Chancé, Dominique

Cheah, Pheng

Ching, Leo

Hesse, Barnor

Donadey, Anne

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Semiotik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments vii

Introduction: The Creolization of Theory / Shu-mei Shih and Françoise Lionnet 1

Part 1. Creolizing Methodologies

1. Symptomatically Black: A Creolization of the Political / Barnor Hesse 37

2. Postslavery and Postcolonial Representations: Comparative Approaches / Anne Donadey 62

3. Crises of Money / Pheng Cheah 83

4. Material Histories of Transcolonial Loss: Creolizing Psychoanalytic Theories of Melancholia? / Liz Constable 112

5. From Multicultural to Creole Subjects: David Henry Hwang's Collaborative Works with Philip Glass / Ping-hui Liao 142

Part 2. Epistemological Locations

6. I Am Where I Think: Remapping the Order of Knowing / Walter Mignolo 159

7. Taiwan in Modernity/Coloniality: Orphan of Asia and the Colonial Difference / Leo Ching 193

8. Toward a Diasporic Citizen? From Internationalism to Cosmopolitics / Etienne Balibar 207

9. "The Forces of Creolization": Colorblindness and Visible Minorities in the New Europe / Fatima El-Tayeb 226

Part 3. Appendix

A. Europe and the Antilles: An Interview with Edouard Glissant / Andrea Schwieger Hiepko (Translated by Julin Everett) 255

B. Creolization: Definition and Critique / Dominique Chancé (Translated by Julin Everett) 262

References 269

Contributors 293

Index 297

Über Autor(innen)

Françoise Lionnet is Professor of French and Francophone Studies, Comparative Literature, and Women’s Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles.Shu-mei Shih is Professor of Comparative Literature, Asian Languages and Cultures, and Asian American Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. Lionnet and Shih are co-directors of the “Cultures in Transnational Perspective” Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship Program in the Humanities at UCLA and co-editors of Minor Transnationalism, also published by Duke University Press.