Beyond Dichotomies

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Beyond Dichotomies examines literary texts, cultural production, and concrete local practices within the context of modernity and globalization by focusing on the ways in which some societies confront the complexity of cultures reflected in new forms of knowledge, narratives, and subjectivities. The contributors explore how particular societies negotiate the relations between the global and the local, and use a geographical, comparative perspective combined with an interdisciplinary approach to offer a diversity of views and illuminate the cultural impact of globalization on different societies around the world: Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas. These societies face complex questions regarding people's histories, identities, and cultures that embody the ambivalence, contradictions, and anxieties generated by the process of globalization. The contributors provide a compelling conclusion for a rethinking and reconfiguration of cultures and intercultural relations in today's global world in which dichotomized representations coexist with a discourse of globalization.
Acknowledgments

Preface
Elisabeth Mudimbe-Boyi

PART 1. BEYOND DICHOTOMIES

1. The Perspective of the World: Globalization Then and Now
Michel-Rolph Trouillot

2. Modernity and Periphery: Toward a Global and Relational Analysis
Mary Louise Pratt

3. Beyond Dichotomies: Communicative Action and Cultural Hegemony
Emmanuel Chukwudi Eze

4. Mankind's Proverbial Imagination: Critical Perspectives on Human Universals As a Global Challenge
Mineke Schipper

PART 2. CONTESTED PLACES, CONTESTED (SELF) ASCRIPTIONS

5. Bringing History Back In: Of Diasporas, Hybridities, Places, and Histories
Arif Dirlik

6. The Romance of Africa: Three Narratives by African-American Women
Eileen Julien

7. Ethnicity As Otherness in British Identity Politics
Robert J. C. Young

Chapter Eight Reincarnating Immigrant Biography: On Migration and Transmigration
Akhil Gupta

PART 3. TRANSLATING PLACES, TRANSLATING AMBIVALENCE

9. Warped Speech: The Politics of Global Translation
Emily Apter

10. National Identity and Immigration: American Polity, Nativism, and the "Alien"
Ali Behdad

11. Richard Wright As a Specular Border Intellectual: The Politics of Identification in Black Power
Abdul JanMohamed

12. Beyond Dichotomies: Translation/Transculturation and the Colonial Difference
Walter D. Mignolo and Freya Schiwy

Conclusion: The Unforeseeable Diversity of the World
Edouard Glissant (English translation by Haun Saussy)

About the Contributors

Index

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• Publié par: State University of New York Press
• Date de parution: 01 février 2012
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780791488553
• Langue: English
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Beyond Dichotomies

SUNY series

EXPLORATIONS in POSTCOLONIAL STUDIES

Emmanuel C. Eze, editor

Patrick Colm Hogan,Colonialism and Cultural Identity: Crises of Tradition in the Anglophone Literatures of India, Africa, and the Caribbean

Alfred J. López,Posts and Pasts: A Theory of Postcolonialism S. Shankar,Textual Traffic: Colonialism, Modernity, and the Economy of the Text John C. Hawley, editor,Postcolonial, Queer: Theoretical Intersections

Beyond Dichotomies

Histories, Identities, Cultures, and the Challenge of Globalization

edited by ELISABETH MUDIMBEBOYI

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Beyond dichotomies : histories, identities, cultures, and the challenge of globalization / edited by Elisabeth Mudimbe-boyi. p. cm. — (SUNY series, explorations in postcolonial studies) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-7914-5383-9 (alk. paper) — ISBN 0-7914-5384-7 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Globalization. 2. Africa—Civilization—Philosophy. 3. Social sciences. 4. Developing countries—Social conditions. 5. History—Philosophy. 6. Cultural policy. I. Mudimbe-boyi, M. Elisabeth. II. Series.

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To my sons Daniel and Claude, whose vision of the world goes beyond dichotomies.

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C o n t e n t s

Acknowledgments Preface Elisabeth MudimbeBoyi

PART 1. BEYOND DICHOTOMIES

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

The Perspective of the World: Globalization Then and Now MichelRolph 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 Mineke Schipper

PART 2. CONTESTED PLACES, CONTESTED (SELF) ASCRIPTIONS

Chapter Five

Bringing History Back In: Of Diasporas, Hybridities, Places, and Histories Arif Dirlik

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B e y o n d D i c h o t o m i e s

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

PART 3. TRANSLATING PLACES, TRANSLATING AMBIVALENCE

Chapter Nine

Chapter Ten

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Chapter Twelve

Conclusion

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 inBlack Power Abdul JanMohamed Beyond Dichotomies: Translation/Transculturation and the Colonial Difference Walter D. Mignolo and Freya Schiwy The Unforeseeable Diversity of the World Edouard Glissant (English translation by Haun Saussy)

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The 1998 Stanford University conference,Beyond Dichotomies: Histo ries, Identities, Cultures, and the Challenges of Globalization, from which this book originates, was made possible by the support and assis- tance of many people. Although I had the primary intellectual responsi- bility for the conference, its organization and success would have been impossible without their presence and cooperation. I especially wish to thank my assistants before and during the conference Beverly Foulks and Kenric Tsethlikai for their efficient collaboration. Adrienne Janus, Trina Marmarelli, and Matthew Tiews extended their presence and care- ful attention to detail during the two days of the conference. For this book, I thank my assistants Sara Johnson and particularly Trina Mar- marelli: she worked very efficiently and with great patience in dealing with computer problems, the technical preparation of the manuscript, the copyediting, and the proofreading. I also wish to acknowledge some colleagues and friends for their interest, encouragement, and support: Bogumil Jewsiewicki of the His- tory Department at Laval University; David Palumbo-Liu of the Depart- ment of Comparative Literature at Stanford University; Richard Roberts of the Department of History at Stanford University; and Haun Saussy of the Stanford University Department of Asian Languages and Literatures, who so diligently translated from the French version Edouard Glissant’s keynote speech and accepted the difficult task of providing a consecutive translation during the speech and the discussion that followed. I am thankful as well to the following colleagues, who generously agreed to chair panels: Karl Britto of the French and Comparative Literature Departments at the University of California, Berkeley; Claire Fox of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Stanford University; Inderpal Grewal, chair of the Department of Women Studies at San Francisco State University; and Richard Roberts of the Department of History, director of the Center for African Studies at Stanford University. For their

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