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Alternate Geographies and the Melancholy of Mestizaje
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Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- CONTENTS v
- françoise lionnet and shu-mei shih Introduction: Thinking through the Minor, Transnationally 1
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I. Theorizing
- Inclusions: Psychoanalysis, Transnationalism, and Minority Cultures 27
- Rational and Irrational Choices: Form, Affect, and Ethics 41
- Toward an Ethics of Transnational Encounters, or, ‘‘When’’ Does a ‘‘Chinese’’ Woman Become a ‘‘Feminist’’? 73
- The Postmodern Subaltern: Globalization Theory and the Subject of Ethnic, Area, and Postcolonial Studies 109
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II. Historicizing
- Murder in Montmartre: Race, Sex, and Crime in Jazz Age Paris 135
- Giving ‘‘Minor’’ Pasts a Future: Narrating History in Transnational Cinematic Autobiography 155
- Major and Minor Discourses of the Vernacular: Discrepant African Histories 179
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III. Reading, Writing, Performing
- Transcolonial Translations: Shakespeare in Mauritius 201
- Postcolonial Theory and the Predicament of ‘‘Minor Literature’’ 223
- The Calm Beauty of Japan at Almost the Speed of Sound: Sakamoto Ky¯ u and the Translations of Rockabilly 237
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IV. Spatializing
- Cartographies of Globalization, Technologies of Gendered Subjectivities: The Dub Poetry of Jean ‘‘Binta’’ Breeze 261
- The Double Logic of Minor Spaces 283
- National Space as Minor Space: Afro-Brazilian Culture and the Pelourinho 301
- Alternate Geographies and the Melancholy of Mestizaje 317
- Contributors 339
- Index 343
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- CONTENTS v
- françoise lionnet and shu-mei shih Introduction: Thinking through the Minor, Transnationally 1
-
I. Theorizing
- Inclusions: Psychoanalysis, Transnationalism, and Minority Cultures 27
- Rational and Irrational Choices: Form, Affect, and Ethics 41
- Toward an Ethics of Transnational Encounters, or, ‘‘When’’ Does a ‘‘Chinese’’ Woman Become a ‘‘Feminist’’? 73
- The Postmodern Subaltern: Globalization Theory and the Subject of Ethnic, Area, and Postcolonial Studies 109
-
II. Historicizing
- Murder in Montmartre: Race, Sex, and Crime in Jazz Age Paris 135
- Giving ‘‘Minor’’ Pasts a Future: Narrating History in Transnational Cinematic Autobiography 155
- Major and Minor Discourses of the Vernacular: Discrepant African Histories 179
-
III. Reading, Writing, Performing
- Transcolonial Translations: Shakespeare in Mauritius 201
- Postcolonial Theory and the Predicament of ‘‘Minor Literature’’ 223
- The Calm Beauty of Japan at Almost the Speed of Sound: Sakamoto Ky¯ u and the Translations of Rockabilly 237
-
IV. Spatializing
- Cartographies of Globalization, Technologies of Gendered Subjectivities: The Dub Poetry of Jean ‘‘Binta’’ Breeze 261
- The Double Logic of Minor Spaces 283
- National Space as Minor Space: Afro-Brazilian Culture and the Pelourinho 301
- Alternate Geographies and the Melancholy of Mestizaje 317
- Contributors 339
- Index 343