Beyond dichotomies : histories, identities, cultures, and the challenge of globalization

Author(s)

• Mudimbe-Boyi, Elisabeth

Bibliographic Information

Beyond dichotomies : histories, identities, cultures, and the challenge of globalization

edited by Elisabeth Mudimbe-Boyi

（SUNY series, explorations in postcolonial studies）

State University of New York Press, c2002

• : pbk

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

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.

Table of Contents

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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Details

• NCID: BA58873429
• ISBN:
  • 0791453839
  • 9780791453841
• LCCN: 2002017724
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Albany
• Pages/Volumes: xxv, 317 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA47746838