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Minor Transnationalism
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2005
About this book
This collection of essays investigates the importance of "minor discourses" and minority cultures across national boundaries.
Author / Editor information
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.
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“Highlighting minor-to-minor global networks that connect the margins without having to go through the center, Françoise Lionnet and Shu-mei Shih’s intriguing collection sparkles when put next to the usual anthologies on globalization. Individual essays on theory, literacy, performance, cinema, music, architecture, and borderlands cumulatively emphasize the multiple outcomes of cultural transversality and horizontal mobility. Reaching beyond the triumphalism of mainstream globalization discourse, Minor Transnationalism demonstrates that the moment for a better understanding of minoritization has truly arrived.”—Srinivas Aravamudan, author of Tropicopolitans: Colonialism and Agency, 1688–1804
Minor Transnationalism opens up new approaches to reading minority cultures and major/minor dynamics of capitalist globalization and postcolonial emergence from Paris and Los Angeles to Japan, Jamaica, Nigeria, and Brazil. It wrests the ‘transnational’ away from tired paradigms of global capitalism or ethnic cooptation and makes it do the work of ‘minority-becoming.’ The result is a fabulous collection of cultural plenitude, globalized imagination, and critical lucidity.”—Rob Wilson, author of Reimagining the American Pacific: From South Pacific to Bamboo Ridge and Beyond
“[A] remarkable collection of essays. . . . The volume's contributors finesse the argument for transnational cultures presented by Lionnet and Behdad and turn the volume itself into an accomplished exploration of the dynamic nature of minority lives in nation-states. This is one volume that readers will find especially persuasive and astoundingly informative.”
-- Vijay Mishra Intersections
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CONTENTS
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françoise lionnet and shu-mei shih Introduction: Thinking through the Minor, Transnationally
1 - I. Theorizing
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Inclusions: Psychoanalysis, Transnationalism, and Minority Cultures
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Rational and Irrational Choices: Form, Affect, and Ethics
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Toward an Ethics of Transnational Encounters, or, ‘‘When’’ Does a ‘‘Chinese’’ Woman Become a ‘‘Feminist’’?
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The Postmodern Subaltern: Globalization Theory and the Subject of Ethnic, Area, and Postcolonial Studies
109 - II. Historicizing
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Murder in Montmartre: Race, Sex, and Crime in Jazz Age Paris
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Giving ‘‘Minor’’ Pasts a Future: Narrating History in Transnational Cinematic Autobiography
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Major and Minor Discourses of the Vernacular: Discrepant African Histories
179 - III. Reading, Writing, Performing
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Transcolonial Translations: Shakespeare in Mauritius
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Postcolonial Theory and the Predicament of ‘‘Minor Literature’’
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The Calm Beauty of Japan at Almost the Speed of Sound: Sakamoto Ky¯ u and the Translations of Rockabilly
237 - IV. Spatializing
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Cartographies of Globalization, Technologies of Gendered Subjectivities: The Dub Poetry of Jean ‘‘Binta’’ Breeze
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The Double Logic of Minor Spaces
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National Space as Minor Space: Afro-Brazilian Culture and the Pelourinho
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Alternate Geographies and the Melancholy of Mestizaje
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Contributors
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Index
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9780822386643
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