Race in translation : culture wars around the postcolonial Atlantic / Robert Stam, Ella Shohat.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stam, Robert, 1941-

Contributor:

Shohat, Ella, 1959-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Race.

Culture.

Postcolonialism--Atlantic Ocean Region.

Postcolonialism.

Multiculturalism--Atlantic Ocean Region.

Multiculturalism.

Ethnicity--Atlantic Ocean Region.

Ethnicity.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xx, 363 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : New York University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

While the term “culture wars” often designates the heated arguments in the English-speaking world spiraling around race, the canon, and affirmative action, in fact these discussions have raged in diverse sites and languages. Race in Translation charts the transatlantic traffic of the debates within and between three zones—the U.S., France, and Brazil. Stam and Shohat trace the literal and figurative translation of these multidirectional intellectual debates, seen most recently in the emergence of postcolonial studies in France, and whiteness studies in Brazil. The authors also interrogate an ironic convergence whereby rightist politicians like Sarkozy and Cameron join hands with some leftist intellectuals like Benn Michaels, Žižek, and Bourdieu in condemning “multiculturalism” and “identity politics.” At once a report from various “fronts” in the culture wars, a mapping of the germane literatures, and an argument about methods of reading the cross-border movement of ideas, the book constitutes a major contribution to our understanding of the Diasporic and the Transnational.While the term “culture wars” often designates the heated arguments in the English-speaking world spiraling around race, the canon, and affirmative action, in fact these discussions have raged in diverse sites and languages. Race in Translation charts the transatlantic traffic of the debates within and between three zones—the U.S., France, and Brazil. Stam and Shohat trace the literal and figurative translation of these multidirectional intellectual debates, seen most recently in the emergence of postcolonial studies in France, and whiteness studies in Brazil. The authors also interrogate an ironic convergence whereby rightist politicians like Sarkozy and Cameron join hands with some leftist intellectuals like Benn Michaels, Žižek, and Bourdieu in condemning “multiculturalism” and “identity politics.” At once a report from various “fronts” in the culture wars, a mapping of the germane literatures, and an argument about methods of reading the cross-border movement of ideas, the book constitutes a major contribution to our understanding of the Diasporic and the Transnational.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Preface

1. The Atlantic Enlightenment

2. A Tale of Three Republics

3. The Seismic Shift and the Decolonization of Knowledge

4. Identity Politics and the Right/Left Convergence

5. France, the United States, and the Culture Wars

6. Brazil, the United States, and the Culture Wars

7. From Affirmative Action to Interrogating Whiteness

8. French Intellectuals and the Postcolonial

9. The Transnational Traffic of Ideas

Notes

Index

About the Authors

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9780814725252

0814725252

9780814723920

0814723926

OCLC:

793995957