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This innovative collection moves beyond a binary model of minority cultural formations that often dominates contemporary cultural and postcolonial studies. Where that model presupposes that minorities necessarily and continuously engage with and against majority cultures in a vertical relationship of assimilation and opposition, this volume brings together case studies that reveal a much more varied terrain of minority interactions with both majority cultures and other minorities. The contributors recognize the persistence of colonial power relations and the power of global capital, attend to the inherent complexity of minor expressive cultures, and engage with multiple linguistic formations as they bring postcolonial minor cultural formations across national boundaries into productive comparison. Based in a broad range of fields--including literature, history, African studies, Asian American studies, Asian studies, French and francophone cultural studies, and Latin American studies--the contributors complicate ideas of minority cultural formations and challenge the notion that transnationalism is necessarily a homogenizing force. They cover topics as diverse as competing versions of Chinese womanhood; American rockabilly music in Japan; the trope of mestizaje in Chicano art and culture; dub poetry radio broadcasts in Jamaica; creole theatre in Mauritius; and race relations in Salvador, Brazil. Together, they point toward a new theoretical vocabulary, one capacious enough to capture the almost infinitely complex experiences of minority groups and positions in a transnational world. Contributors. Moradewun Adejunmobi Ali Behdad Michael Bourdaghs Suzanne Gearhart Susan Koshy Francoise Lionnet Seiji M. Lippit Elizabeth Marchant Kathleen McHugh David Palumbo-Liu Rafael Perez-Torres Jenny Sharpe Shu-mei Shih Tyler Stovall

Table of Contents:
Introduction: Thinking through the Minor, Transnationally / FranÇoise Lionnet and Shu-Mei Shih 1 I. Theorizing Inclusions: Psychoanalysis, Transnationalism, and Minority Cultures / Suzanne Gearhart 27 Rational and Irrational Choices: Form, Affect and Ethics / David Palumbo-Liu 41 Toward an Ethics of Transnational Encounters, or, "When" does a "Chinese" Woman Become a "Feminist"? / Shu-Mei Shih 73 The Postmodern Subaltern: Globalization Theory and the Subject of Ethnic, Area and Postcolonial Studies / Susan Koshy 109 II. Historicizing Murder in Montmartre: Race, Sex, and Crime in Jazz Age Paris / Tyler Stovall 135 Giving "Minor" Pasts a Future: Narrating History in Transnational Cinematic Autobiography / Kathleen McHugh 155 Major and Minor Discourses of the Vernacular: Discrepant African Histories / Moradewun Adejunmobi 179 III. Reading, Writing, Performing Transcolonial Translations: Shakespeare in Mauritius / FranÇoise Lionnet 201 Postcolonial Theory and the Predicament of "Minor Literature" / Ali Behdad 223 The Calm Beauty of Japan at Almost the Speed of Sound: Sakamoto Kyu and the Translations of Rockabilly / Michael K. Bourdaghs 237 IV. Spatializing Cartographies of Globalization, Technologies of Gendered Subjectivities: The Dub Poetry of Jean "Binta" Breeze / Jenny Sharpe 261 The Double Logic of Minor Spaces / Seiji M. Lippit 283 National Space as Minor Space: Afro-Brazilian Culture and the Pelourinho / Elizabeth A. Marchant 301 Alternate Geographies and the Melancholy of Mestizaje / Rafael Perez-Torres 317 Contributors 339 Index 343

About the Author :
FranÇoise Lionnet is Chair of French and Francophone Studies and Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author of Postcolonial Representations: Women, Literature, Identity. Shu-mei Shih is Associate Professor of Asian Languages and Cultures, Comparative Literature, and Asian American Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author of The Lure of the Modern: Writing Modernism in Semicolonial China, 1917–1937.

Review :
"Highlighting minor-to-minor global networks that connect the margins without having to go through the center, Francoise Lionnet and Shu-mei Shih's intriguing collection sparkles when put next to the usual anthologies on globalization. Individual essays on theory, literacy, performance, cinema, music, architecture, and borderlands cumulatively emphasize the multiple outcomes of cultural transversality and horizontal mobility. Reaching beyond the triumphalism of mainstream globalization discourse, Minor Transnationalism demonstrates that the moment for a better understanding of minoritization has truly arrived."--Srinivas Aravamudan, author of Tropicopolitans: Colonialism and Agency, 1688-1804 "Minor Transnationalism opens up new approaches to reading minority cultures and major/minor dynamics of capitalist globalization and postcolonial emergence from Paris and Los Angeles to Japan, Jamaica, Nigeria, and Brazil. It wrests the 'transnational' away from tired paradigms of global capitalism or ethnic cooptation and makes it do the work of 'minority-becoming.' The result is a fabulous collection of cultural plenitude, globalized imagination, and critical lucidity."--Rob Wilson, author of Reimagining the American Pacific: From South Pacific to Bamboo Ridge and Beyond "Thoughtful and thought-provoking."--Elleke Boehmer, Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History "Thought-provoking... Excellent... This rich and wide-ranging collection is probably best understood as an exciting first step-the promise of trans-minor routes and flows yet to be fully charted."--Fran Martin, Cultural Studies Review "A remarkable collection of essays... The volume's contributors finesse the argument for transnational cultures presented by Lionnet and Behdad and turn the volume itself into an accomplished exploration of the dynamic nature of minority lives in nation-states. This is one volume that readers will find especially persuasive and astoundingly informative."--Vijay Mishra , Intersections "One of the most interesting aspects of the book, then, is this model for cooperative research; it is a collaborative form one might hope to see followed more regularly in similar, interdisciplinary collections in the humanities... There are a number of excellent essays in the volume..."-- Marian Eide, Women's Studies Quarterly


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780822334903
  • Publisher: Duke University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press
  • Height: 235 mm
  • No of Pages: 277
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0822334909
  • Publisher Date: 09 Mar 2005
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Weight: 522 gr


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