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Critique of Exotica
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 272

Critique of Exotica

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2000
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  • Publisher: Pluto Press

Challenges academic complicity in the reification of exotica

Bad Marxism
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 274

Bad Marxism

Critical political analysis of how Cultural Studies has used and abused Marxism, offering a close reading of Derrida and Negri.

Impossible Desires
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 263

Impossible Desires

By bringing queer theory to bear on ideas of diaspora, Gayatri Gopinath produces both a more compelling queer theory and a more nuanced understanding of diaspora. Focusing on queer female diasporic subjectivity, Gopinath develops a theory of diaspora apart from the logic of blood, authenticity, and patrilineal descent that she argues invariably forms the core of conventional formulations. She examines South Asian diasporic literature, film, and music in order to suggest alternative ways of conceptualizing community and collectivity across disparate geographic locations. Her agile readings challenge nationalist ideologies by bringing to light that which has been rendered illegible or impossib...

Diaspora and Hybridity
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 172

Diaspora and Hybridity

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2005-10-10
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  • Publisher: SAGE

Diaspora & Hybridity deals with those theoretical issues which concern social theory and social change in the new millennium. The volume provides a refreshing, critical and illuminating analysis of concepts of diaspora and hybridity and their impact on multi-ethnic and multi-cultural societies’ - Dr Rohit Barot, Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Bristol What do we mean by 'diaspora' and 'hybridity'? Why are they pivotal concepts in contemporary debates on race, culture and society? This book is an exhaustive, politically inflected, assessment of the key debates on diaspora and hybridity. It relates the topics to contemporary social struggles and cultural contexts, p...

Global South Asia on Screen
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 271

Global South Asia on Screen

With importance for geopolitical cultural economy, anthropology, and media studies, John Hutnyk brings South Asian circuits of scholarship to attention where, alongside critical Marxist and poststructuralist authors, a new take on film and television is on offer. The book presents Raj-era costume dramas as a commentary on contemporary anti-Muslim racism, a new political compact in film and television studies, and the President watching a snuff film from Pakistan. Hanif Kureishi's postcolonial 'fuck Sandwich' sits alongside Salman Rushdie's Satanic Verses, updated for the war on terror with low-brow, high-brow versions of Asia that carry us up the Himalayas with magic carpet TV nostalgia. Mao...

The Post-Colonial Critic
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 180

The Post-Colonial Critic

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014-04-23
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Gayatri Spivak, one of our best known cultural and literary theorists, addresses a vast range of political questions with both pen and voice in this unique book. The Post-Colonial Critic brings together a selection of interviews and discussions in which she has taken part over the past five years; together they articulate some of the most compelling politico-theoretical issues of the present. In these lively texts, students of Spivak's work will identify her unmistakeable voice as she speaks on questions of representation and self-representation, the politicization of deconstruction; the situations of post-colonial critics; pedagogical responsibility; and political strategies.

The Rumour of Calcutta
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 264

The Rumour of Calcutta

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1996-10
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  • Publisher: Zed Books

Representations of Calcutta are analysed, and the author shows how the rumours of westerners contribute to the elaboration of an imaginary city. In doing so, they circulate in ways fundamental to the maintenance of international order.

Celebrating Transgression
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 272

Celebrating Transgression

9. Between meaning and significance: reflections on ritual and mimesis / Alexander Henn -- 10. Animism on stage: tracing anthropology's heritage in contemporary African dance in Europe / Nadine Sieveking -- 11. Transgression and the erotic / Vincent Crapanzano -- 12. Michael Leiris: master of the ethnographic failure / Peter Phipps -- 13. Boundary confusion in anthropology and art: Pablo Picasso and Michael Leiris / Klaus Peter Buchheit -- 14. The concatenation of minds / Klaus Peter Buchheit -- 15. Transgressions of fieldwork/filed works: method in madness / John Hutnyk.

Lives in Translation
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 273

Lives in Translation

In Lives in Translation, Kathleen Hall investigates the cultural politics of immigration and citizenship, education and identity-formation among Sikh youth whose parents migrated to England from India and East Africa. Legally British, these young people encounter race as a barrier to becoming truly "English." Hall breaks with conventional ethnographies about immigrant groups by placing this paradox of modern citizenship at the center of her study, considering Sikh immigration within a broader analysis of the making of a multiracial postcolonial British nation. The postwar British public sphere has been a contested terrain on which the politics of cultural pluralism and of social incorporatio...

Musicology
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 260

Musicology

Musicology: the Key Concepts provides a vital reference guide for students of contemporary musicology. Its clear and accessible entries cover a comprehensive range of terms including: - aesthetics - canon - culture - deconstruction - ethnicity - identity - subjectivity - value - work Fully cross-referenced and with suggestions for further reading, this is an essential resource for all students of music.