Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
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.
“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, <i>Minor Transnationalism</i> demonstrates that the moment for a better understanding of minoritization has truly arrived.”-Srinivas Aravamudan, author of <i>Tropicopolitans: Colonialism and Agency, 1688–1804</i> <i>Minor Transnationalism</i> 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 <i>Reimagining the American Pacific: From </i>South Pacific<i> to Bamboo Ridge and Beyond</i> “[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)
Based in a broad range of fields-including literature, history, African studies, Asian American studies, Asian studies, French and francophone studies, and Latin American studies-the contributors complicate ideas of minority cultural formations and challenge the notion that transnationalism is necessarily a homogenizing force. They cover topics as diverse as competing versions of Chinese womanhood; American rockabilly music in Japan; the trope of mestizaje in Chicano art and culture; dub poetry radio broadcasts in Jamaica; creole theater in Mauritius; and race relations in Salvador, Brazil. Together, they point toward a new theoretical vocabulary, one capacious enough to capture the almost infinitely complex experiences of minority groups and positions in a transnational world.
Contributors. Moradewun Adejunmobi, Ali Behdad, Michael Bourdaghs, Suzanne Gearhart, Susan Koshy, FranÇoise Lionnet, Seiji M. Lippit, Elizabeth Marchant, Kathleen McHugh, David Palumbo-Liu, Rafael PÉrez-Torres, Jenny Sharpe, Shu-mei Shih , Tyler Stovall
I. Theorizing
Inclusions: Psychoanalysis, Transnationalism, and Minority Cultures / Suzanne Gearhart 27
Rational and Irrational Choices: Form, Affect and Ethics / David Palumbo-Liu 41
Toward an Ethics of Transnational Encounters, or, "When" does a "Chinese" Woman Become a "Feminist"? / Shu-Mei Shih 73
The Postmodern Subaltern: Globalization Theory and the Subject of Ethnic, Area and Postcolonial Studies / Susan Koshy 109
II. Historicizing
Murder in Montmartre: Race, Sex, and Crime in Jazz Age Paris / Tyler Stovall 135
Giving "Minor" Pasts a Future: Narrating History in Transnational Cinematic Autobiography / Kathleen McHugh 155
Major and Minor Discourses of the Vernacular: Discrepant African Histories / Moradewun Adejunmobi 179
III. Reading, Writing, Performing
Transcolonial Translations: Shakespeare in Mauritius / FranÇoise Lionnet 201
Postcolonial Theory and the Predicament of "Minor Literature" / Ali Behdad 223
The Calm Beauty of Japan at Almost the Speed of Sound: Sakamoto Kyu and the Translations of Rockabilly / Michael K. Bourdaghs 237
IV. Spatializing
Cartographies of Globalization, Technologies of Gendered Subjectivities: The Dub Poetry of Jean "Binta" Breeze / Jenny Sharpe 261
The Double Logic of Minor Spaces / Seiji M. Lippit 283
National Space as Minor Space: Afro-Brazilian Culture and the Pelourinho / Elizabeth A. Marchant 301
Alternate Geographies and the Melancholy of Mestizaje / Rafael Perez-Torres 317
Contributors 339
Index 343
“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, <i>Minor Transnationalism</i> demonstrates that the moment for a better understanding of minoritization has truly arrived.”-Srinivas Aravamudan, author of <i>Tropicopolitans: Colonialism and Agency, 1688–1804</i> <i>Minor Transnationalism</i> 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 <i>Reimagining the American Pacific: From </i>South Pacific<i> to Bamboo Ridge and Beyond</i> “[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)
Based in a broad range of fields-including literature, history, African studies, Asian American studies, Asian studies, French and francophone studies, and Latin American studies-the contributors complicate ideas of minority cultural formations and challenge the notion that transnationalism is necessarily a homogenizing force. They cover topics as diverse as competing versions of Chinese womanhood; American rockabilly music in Japan; the trope of mestizaje in Chicano art and culture; dub poetry radio broadcasts in Jamaica; creole theater in Mauritius; and race relations in Salvador, Brazil. Together, they point toward a new theoretical vocabulary, one capacious enough to capture the almost infinitely complex experiences of minority groups and positions in a transnational world.
Contributors. Moradewun Adejunmobi, Ali Behdad, Michael Bourdaghs, Suzanne Gearhart, Susan Koshy, FranÇoise Lionnet, Seiji M. Lippit, Elizabeth Marchant, Kathleen McHugh, David Palumbo-Liu, Rafael PÉrez-Torres, Jenny Sharpe, Shu-mei Shih , Tyler Stovall
I. Theorizing
Inclusions: Psychoanalysis, Transnationalism, and Minority Cultures / Suzanne Gearhart 27
Rational and Irrational Choices: Form, Affect and Ethics / David Palumbo-Liu 41
Toward an Ethics of Transnational Encounters, or, "When" does a "Chinese" Woman Become a "Feminist"? / Shu-Mei Shih 73
The Postmodern Subaltern: Globalization Theory and the Subject of Ethnic, Area and Postcolonial Studies / Susan Koshy 109
II. Historicizing
Murder in Montmartre: Race, Sex, and Crime in Jazz Age Paris / Tyler Stovall 135
Giving "Minor" Pasts a Future: Narrating History in Transnational Cinematic Autobiography / Kathleen McHugh 155
Major and Minor Discourses of the Vernacular: Discrepant African Histories / Moradewun Adejunmobi 179
III. Reading, Writing, Performing
Transcolonial Translations: Shakespeare in Mauritius / FranÇoise Lionnet 201
Postcolonial Theory and the Predicament of "Minor Literature" / Ali Behdad 223
The Calm Beauty of Japan at Almost the Speed of Sound: Sakamoto Kyu and the Translations of Rockabilly / Michael K. Bourdaghs 237
IV. Spatializing
Cartographies of Globalization, Technologies of Gendered Subjectivities: The Dub Poetry of Jean "Binta" Breeze / Jenny Sharpe 261
The Double Logic of Minor Spaces / Seiji M. Lippit 283
National Space as Minor Space: Afro-Brazilian Culture and the Pelourinho / Elizabeth A. Marchant 301
Alternate Geographies and the Melancholy of Mestizaje / Rafael Perez-Torres 317
Contributors 339
Index 343
Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
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.