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1 online resource (xxv, 317 pages) |
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SUNY series, explorations in postcolonial studies |
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SUNY series, explorations in postcolonial studies.
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| Contents |
The perspective of the world: globalization then and now / Michel-Rolf Trouillot -- Modernity and periphery: toward a global and relational analysis / Mary Louise Pratt -- Beyond dichotomies: communicative action and cultural hegemony / Emmanuel Chukwudi Eze -- Mankind's proverbial imagination: critical perspectives on human universals as a global challenge / Meineke Schipper -- Bringing history back in: of diasporas, hybridities, places, and histories / Arif Dirlik -- The romance of Africa: three narratives by African-American women / Eileen Julien -- Ethnicity as otherness in British identity politics / Robert J.C. Young -- Reincarnating immigrant biography: on migration and transmigration / Akhil Gupta -- Warped speech: the politics of global translation / Emily Apter -- National identity and immigration: American polity, nativism, and the "alien" / Ali Behdad -- Richard Wright as a specular border intellectual: the politics of identification in Black power / Abdul JanMohamed -- Beyond Dichotomies: translation/transculturation and the colonial difference / Walter D. Mignolo, Freya Schiwy -- The unforeseeable diversity of the world / Edouard Glissant |
| Summary |
Annotation. Originating from a 1998 Stanford University conference of the same name, this volume explores how local communities negotiate the cultural impact of globalization. Mudimbe-Boye (French and comparative literature, Stanford U.) presents 12 papers that discuss the persistence of dichotomies of colonizer/colonized, center/periphery, local/global, premodernity/modernity, and similar examples in the face of the supposed homogenizing force of globalization. Representing a range of approaches and viewpoints the papers reflect on power-based binaries, questions of places and the construction of new identities, and the possibilities of moving beyond dualist representations of social reality Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Globalization.
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Social sciences.
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History -- Philosophy.
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Cultural policy.
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Social Sciences
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globalism.
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social sciences.
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HISTORY -- General.
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Civilization -- Philosophy
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Cultural policy
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Globalization
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History -- Philosophy
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Social conditions
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Social sciences
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Africa -- Civilization -- Philosophy
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Developing countries -- Social conditions
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Africa
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Developing countries
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Mudimbe-boyi, M. Elisabeth
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| ISBN |
058547611X |
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9780585476117 |
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0791488551 |
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9780791488553 |
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