Radhakrishnan Theory in an Uneven World

1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-1-4051-4283-0
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 240 Seiten, E-Book

This major intervention into debates about the postcolonial and theglobal proposes that theory should embody unevenness as symptomeven as it envisions strategies to get beyond unevenness.Radhakrishnan's thought-provoking engagement with theorists andwriters from around the world will fascinate readers across a widerange of disciplines.
* * A major intervention into debates about the postcolonial andthe global.
* * Proposes that theory bear the burden of unevenness even as itseeks a way out of it - neither captive to the world as it is, nornaively credulous of visions of the world as it should be, theoryargues for an ethics of persuasion that is firmly rooted inpolitical resistance.
* * Engages with a wide range of theorists and writers from aroundthe world.
* * Ranges over fields as diverse as critical theory,postmodernism, poststructuralism, postcolonialism, minoritystudies, cultural studies and anthropology.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Radhakrishnan, R.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface.
Acknowledgements.
1. Postmodernism and the Rest of the World.
2. The Use and Abuse of Multiculturalism.
3. Globalization, Desire, and the Politics ofRepresentation.
4. Derivative Discourses and the Problem of Signification.
5. Theory in an Uneven World.
Notes.
Index

Über Autor(innen)

R. Radhakrishnan is Professor of English at the University of California, Irvine. He is the author of Diasporic Mediations: Between Home and Location (University of Minnesota Press, 1996). His articles and essays have appeared in a wide range of scholarly journals and in collections such as Nationalisms and Sexualities (Ed. Parker, Russo, Sommer and Yaeger, Routledge, 1992), The Nature and Context of Minority Discourse (ed. Mohamed and Lloyd, OUP, 1991), Orientations: Mapping Studies in the Asian Diaspora (ed. Chuh and Shimakawa, Duke University Press, 2001) and Identities: Race, Class, Gender, Nationality (Ed. Alcoff and Mendieta, Blackwell 2003).