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Record Nr.

UNINA9910827019103321

Autore

Figueira Dorothy Matilda <1955->

Titolo

Otherwise occupied [[electronic resource] ] : pedagogies of alterity and the brahminization of theory / / Dorothy M. Figueira

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2008

ISBN

0-7914-7760-6

1-4356-9544-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (174 p.)

Disciplina

801/.950904

Soggetti

Criticism - History - 20th century

Multiculturalism

Postmodernism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 141-157) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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 -- INTRODUCTION -- POSTCOLONIAL CRITICISM'S DISCIPLINARY ROOTS -- COMMODIFYING POSTCOLONIAL THEORY AND TYPE-CASTING THE CRITIC -- FALSE CONSCIOUSNESS -- COMMODITY FETISHISM AND BRAHMINIZATION -- 5. THE ROMANCE OF EXILE -- INTRODUCTION -- 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 -- INTRODUCTION -- POSITIVE DISCRIMINATION IN INDIA -- AFFIRMATIVE ACTION IN THE UNITED STATES -- COSMETIC ENHANCEMENT --



Conclusion: THE COLLECTING OF THE OTHER -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Ž.

Sommario/riassunto

Questions whether current theories and pedagogies of alterity have allowed us truly to engage the Other.