Subalternity and representation : arguments in cultural theory / John Beverley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Beverley, John, 1943-

Series:

Post-contemporary interventions

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Marginality, Social.

Marginality, Social--Political aspects--Latin America.

Learning and scholarship--Political aspects.

Learning and scholarship.

Knowledge, Theory of--Political aspects.

Knowledge, Theory of.

Postcolonialism.

Culture conflict.

Marginality, Social--Political aspects.

Latin America.

Physical Description:

xii, 202 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 1999.

Summary:

The term "subalternity" refers to a condition of subordination brought about by colonization or other forms of economic, social, racial, linguistic, and/or cultural dominance. Subaltern studies is, therefore, a study of power. Who has it and who does not? Who is gaining it and who is losing it? Power is intimately related to questions of representation--to which representations have cognitive authority and can secure hegemony and which do not and cannot. In this book John Beverley examines the relationship between subalternity and representation by analyzing the ways in which that relationship has been played out in the domain of Latin American studies.

Contents:

1 Writing in Reverse: The Subaltern and the Limits of Academic Knowledge 25

2 Transculturation and Subalternity: The "Lettered City" and the Tupac Amaru Rebellion 41

3 Our Rigoberta? I, Rigoberta Menchu, Cultural Authority, and the Problem of Subaltern Agency 65

4 Hybrid or Binary? On the Category of "the People" in Subaltern and Cultural Studies 85

5 Civil Society, Hybridity, and the "'Political' Aspect of Cultural Studies" (on Canclini) 115

6 Territoriality, Multiculturalism, and Hegemony: The Question of the Nation 133.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [169]-193) and index.

ISBN:

0822323826

0822324164

OCLC:

41565023