3. How to Read a “Culturally Different” Book

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Introduction 1
5. 1. The Burden of English 35
6. 2. Who Claims Alterity? 57
7. 3. How to Read a “Culturally Different” Book 73
8. 4. The Double Bind Starts to Kick In 97
9. 5. Culture: Situating Feminism 119
10. 6. Teaching for the Times 137
11. 7. Acting Bits/Identity Talk 158
12. 8. Supplementing Marxism 182
13. 9. What’s Left of Theory? 191
14. 10. Echo 218
15. 11. Translation as Culture 241
16. 12. Translating into English 256
17. 13. Nationalism and the Imagination 275
18. 14. Resident Alien 301
19. 15. Ethics and Politics in Tagore, Coetzee, and Certain Scenes of Teaching 316
20. 16. Imperative to Re- imagine the Planet 335
21. 17. Reading with Stuart Hall in “Pure” Literary Terms 351
22. 18. Terror: A Speech after 9/11 372
23. 19. Harlem 399
24. 20. Scattered Speculations on the Subaltern and the Popular 429
25. 21. World Systems and the Creole 443
26. 22. The Stakes of a World Literature 455
27. 23. Rethinking Comparativism 467
28. 24. Sign and Trace 484
29. 25. Tracing the Skin of Day 500
30. Notes 509
31. Acknowledgments 591
32. Index 595