Otherwise occupied : pedagogies of alterity and the brahminization of theory / Dorothy M. Figueira.
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- Language:
- English
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- 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:
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- 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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- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 141-157) and index.
- ISBN:
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- 9780791477601
- 0791477606
- 9781435695443
- 1435695445
- OCLC:
- 299178568
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