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Minor transnationalism / Francoise Lionnet & Shu-mei Shih, editors.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cultural pluralism.
- Transnationalism.
- Arts and globalization.
- Arts, Modern--21st century.
- Arts, Modern.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (367 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This collection of essays investigates the importance of "minor discourses" and minority cultures across national boundaries.
- Contents:
- Introduction : Thinking through the minor, transnationally / Francoise Lionnet and Shu-Mei Shih
- Inclusions : psychoanalysis, transnationalism, and minority cultures / Suzanne Gearhart
- Rational and irrational choices : form, affect, and ethics / David Palumbo-Liu
- Toward an ethics of "transnational encounters, or "when" does a "Chinese" woman become a "feminist"? / Shu-Mei Shih
- The postmodern subaltern : globalization theory and the subject of ethnic, area, and postcolonial studies / Susan Koshy
- Murder in Montmartre : race, sex, and crime in Jazz Age Paris / Tyler Stovall
- Giving "minor" pasts a future : narrating history in transnational cinematic autobiography / Kathleen McHugh
- Major and minor discourses of the vernancular : discrepant African histories / Moradewun Adujunmobi
- Transcolonial translations : Shakespeare in Mauritius / Francoise Lionnet
- Postcolonial theory and the predicament of "minor literature" / Ali Behdad
- The calm beauty of Japan at almost the speed of sound : Sakamoto Kyu and the translations of rockabilly / Michael K. Bourdaghs
- Cartographies of globalization, technologies of gendered subjectivities : the dub poetry of Jean "Binta" Breeze / Jenny Sharpe
- The double logic of minor spaces / Seiji M. Lippit
- National space as minor space : Afro-Brazilian culture and the Pelourinho / Elizabeth A. Marchant
- Alternate geographies and the melancholy of mestizaje / Rafael Perez-Torres.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8223-8664-X
- OCLC:
- 654787433
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