Vai al contenuto principale della pagina
Autore: | Figueira Dorothy Matilda <1955-> |
Titolo: | Otherwise occupied [[electronic resource] ] : pedagogies of alterity and the brahminization of theory / / Dorothy M. Figueira |
Pubblicazione: | Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2008 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (174 p.) |
Disciplina: | 801/.950904 |
Soggetto topico: | Criticism - History - 20th century |
Multiculturalism | |
Postmodernism | |
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. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Otherwise occupied |
ISBN: | 0-7914-7760-6 |
1-4356-9544-5 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910827019103321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |