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Record Nr.

UNINA9910780907403321

Autore

McCarthy P

Titolo

Writing Diaspora in the West [[electronic resource] ] : Intimacy, Identity and the New Marginalism / / by P. McCarthy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2009

ISBN

1-282-44644-4

9786612446443

0-230-23384-8

Edizione

[1st ed. 2009.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (210 p.)

Disciplina

304.8

306

Soggetti

Literature—Philosophy

Intellectual life—History

Popular culture - Study and teaching

Performing arts

Communication

Literary Theory

Intellectual Studies

Cultural Studies

Performing Arts

Media Studies

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 (p. 163-174) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 First Person Reflection: Origins of the Marginal Disposition; 2 Of Home and Hearth: Maps, Histories and Territorial Claims; 3 The Subject Missing: Erasure and the Reflexive Margin; 4 Conflation, Contradiction and the Colonized Mind; 5 The Curious Heimat: Fetishism, Rupture, Boundary; Notes; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

In this bold intervention into the understanding of the diasporic experience within cultural studies, McCarthy challenges a critical position emergent over the last thirty years (what he calls the 'new



marginalism'). He confronts the liberal orthodoxies that prevail in this area, exposing contradictions in the thinking of its major theorists.