Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface viii
4. Introduction 1
5. PART I Anthropological Reifications from Ethnicity to Identity
6. Chapter 1 Toward Identification: The Unconscious Geopolitics of Ethnicity and Culture in Theory 11
7. Chapter 2 The Diasporic Mind Field in the (Inter)Disciplinary Politics of Identity 33
8. PART II Beyond the Imagined Community of Writing Culture
9. Chapter 3 The Predicament of James Clifford in the Anthropological Imaginary 57
10. Chapter 4 Writing Theory Rethinking the Emancipation of the Author from His Function 80
11. PART III Can the Postcolonial Speak in Sociological Theory?
12. Chapter 5 Subaltern Studies as Historical Exception / Postcolonialism as Critical Theory 107
13. Chapter 6 Nation as Norm, State as Exception: Unseen Ramifications of a Hyphenated Modernity 129
14. References 151
15. Index 163