Diasporic mediations : between home and location / R. Radhakrishnan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Radhakrishnan, R. (Rajagopalan)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Postmodernism--Social aspects.

Postmodernism.

Culture.

Ethnicity.

Identity (Psychology).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (249 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 1996.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In the heated, often rancorous debates that are the "culture wars," identity politics has been at the center of both popular and academic discussion. In this series of meditations on the relationship between theory and practice, R. Radhakrishnan probes the intersections of poststructuralism and postcoloniality that lie at the heart of contemporary controversies over identity and difference.

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 The Changing Subject and the Politics of Theory; 2 Toward an Effective Intellectual: Foucault or Gramsci?; 3 Ethnic Identity and Poststructuralist Differance; 4 Culture as Common Ground: Ethnicity and Beyond; 5 Canonicity and Theory: Toward a Poststructuralist Pedagogy; 6 Negotiating Subject Positions in an Uneven World; 7 Cultural Theory and the Politics of Location; 8 Postcoloniality and the Boundaries of Identity; 9 Nationalism, Gender, and the Narrative of Identity; 10 Is the Ethnic ""Authentic"" in the Diaspora?; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8166-8664-5

OCLC:

476094128