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Diasporic mediations : between home and location
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In the heated, often rancorous debates that are the "culture wars," identity politics has been at the center of both popular and academic discussion. In this series of meditations on the relationsh...
In the heated, often rancorous debates that are the "culture wars," identity politics has been at the center of both popular and academic discussion. In this series of meditations on the relationship between theory and practice, R. Radhakrishnan probes the intersections of poststructuralism and postcoloniality that lie at the heart of contemporary controversies over identity and difference.
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- Creator
- R. Radhakrishnan
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- 1st ed
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 1996
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (249 pages)
- ISBNs
- 0816626413, 9780816626403, 0816626405, 9780816686643, 0816686645, 9780816626410
- OCLC
- ocn476094128, ocn232159884
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- English
- Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 The Changing Subject and the Politics of Theory; 2 Toward an Effective Intellectual: Foucault or Gramsci?; 3 Ethnic Identity and Poststructuralist Differance; 4 Culture as Common Ground: Ethnicity and Beyond; 5 Canonicity and Theory: Toward a Poststructuralist Pedagogy; 6 Negotiating Subject Positions in an Uneven World; 7 Cultural Theory and the Politics of Location; 8 Postcoloniality and the Boundaries of Identity; 9 Nationalism, Gender, and the Narrative of Identity; 10 Is the Ethnic ""Authentic"" in the Diaspora?; Index