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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457363603321

Autore

Radhakrishnan R (Rajagopalan)

Titolo

Diasporic mediations [[electronic resource] ] : between home and location / / R. Radhakrishnan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, 1996

ISBN

0-8166-8664-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (249 p.)

Disciplina

301.01

301/.01

306

Soggetti

Postmodernism - Social aspects

Culture

Ethnicity

Identity (Psychology)

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.