Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. 1. Writing in Reverse: The Subaltern and the Limits of Academic Knowledge 25
6. 2. Transculturation and Subalternity: The "Lettered City" and the Tupac Amaru Rebellion 41
7. 3. Our Rigoberta? I, Rigoberta Menchu, Cultural Authority, and the Problem of Subaltern Agency 65
8. 4. Hybrid or Binary? On the Category of"the People" in Subaltern and Cultural Studies 85
9. 5. Civil Society, Hybridity, and the " 'Political' Aspect ofCultural Studies" (on Canclini) 115
10. 6. Territoriality, Multiculturalism, and Hegemony: The Question of the Nation 133
11. Notes 169
12. Index 195