Chapters in this book

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