Otherwise occupied : pedagogies of alterity and the brahminization of theory / Dorothy M. Figueira.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Figueira, Dorothy Matilda, 1955-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Criticism--History--20th century.

Criticism.

Multiculturalism.

Postmodernism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (174 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Questions whether current theories and pedagogies of alterity have allowed us truly to engage the Other.

Contents:

Intro

OTHERWISE OCCUPIED

Contents

Acknowledgments

INTRODUCTION

1. CRITICAL BACKGROUND TO POSTSTRUCTURALIST THEORIES AND PEDAGOGIES OF ALTERITY

2. MULTICULTURALISM

SIMULATED BATTLES

THE INSTITUTIONALIZATIONOF MULTICULTURALISM

THE METHODOLOGY OF MULTICULTURALISM

MARKETING THE MARGIN

MASKING THE METANARRATIVE OF RACE

3. POSTCOLONIAL CRITICISM AND IDENTITARIAN POLITICS

DEFINITIONS AND THE SCOPE OF POSTCOLONIAL CRITICISM

HISTORY AND POSTCOLONIAL SUBJECTIVITY

THE POSTCOLONIAL CRITIC

THE REPRESSIVE ALLURE OF POSTCOLONIAL CRITICISM

4. THE BRAHMINIZATION OF THEORY:COMMODITY FETISHISM AND FALSE CONSCIOUSNESS

POSTCOLONIAL CRITICISM'S DISCIPLINARY ROOTS

COMMODIFYING POSTCOLONIAL THEORY AND TYPE-CASTING THE CRITIC

FALSE CONSCIOUSNESS

COMMODITY FETISHISM AND BRAHMINIZATION

5. THE ROMANCE OF EXILE

SPOKESPERSONSHIP

THE EXILE

THE NOMAD

A WAND'RING MINSTREL I,A THING OF SHREDS AND PATCHES

6. OCCIDENTALISM

THEORY CONFRONTS REALITY

RHETORIC

THE FALLACI AFFAIR

FINAL BELIEFS

7. GESTURES OF INCLUSION

POSITIVE DISCRIMINATION IN INDIA

AFFIRMATIVE ACTION IN THE UNITED STATES

COSMETIC ENHANCEMENT

Conclusion: THE COLLECTING OF THE OTHER

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 141-157) and index.

ISBN:

9780791477601

0791477606

9781435695443

1435695445

OCLC:

299178568