Dangerous liaisons : gender, nation, and postcolonial perspectives

McClintock, Anne, 1954- (Added Author). Mufti, Aamir. (Added Author). Shohat, Ella, 1959- (Added Author). Social Text Collective. (Added Author).

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ISBN: 0816626499 (pbk.)
Physical Description: print
viii, 551 p.
Publisher: Minneapolis, MN ; London : University of Minnesota Press, c1997.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Introduction / Aamir Mufti and Ella Shohat -- Pt. I. Contesting Nations. 1. Zionism from the Standpoint of Its Victims / Edward W. Said. 2. Sephardim in Israel: Zionism from the Standpoint of Its Jewish Victims / Ella Shohat. 3. Of Balkans and Bantustans: Ethnic Cleansing and the Crisis in National Legitimation / Rob Nixon. 4. "No Longer in a Future Heaven": Gender, Race, and Nationalism / Anne McClintock. 5. Currying Favor: The Politics of British Educational and Cultural Policy in India, 1813-54 / Gauri Viswanathan. 6. The Nation as Imagined Community / Jean Franco -- Pt. II. Multiculturalism and Diasporic Identities. 7. On the Question of a Theory of (Third) World Literature / Madhava Prasad. 8. Caliban Speaks Five Hundred Years Later / Roberto Fernandez Retamar. 9. The Local and the Global: Globalization and Ethnicity / Stuart Hall. 10. Multiculturalism and the Neoconservatives / Robert Stam. 11. Shuckin' Off the African-American Native Other: What's "Po-Mo" Got to Do with It? / Wahneema Lubiano. 12. Identity, Meaning, and the African-American / Michael Hanchard. 13. Just Looking for Trouble: Robert Mapplethorpe and Fantasies of Race / Kobena Mercer -- Pt. III. Gender and the Politics of Race. 14. Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses / Chandra Talpade Mohanty. 15. Traddutora, Traditora: A Paradigmatic Figure of Chicana Feminism / Norma Alarcon. 16. American Indian Women: At the Center of Indigenous Resistance in Contemporary North America / M. Annette Jaimes and Theresa Halsey. 17. "On the Threshold of Woman's Era": Lynching, Empire, and Sexuality in Black Feminist Theory / Hazel V. Carby. 18. Making Empire Respectable: The Politics of Race and Sexual Morality in Twentieth-Century Colonial Cultures / Ann Laura Stoler. 19. Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Redefining Difference / Audre Lorde. 20. Gender Is Burning: Questions of Appropriation and Subversion / Judith Butler. 21. Sisterhood: Political Solidarity between Women / Bell Hooks -- Pt. IV. Postcolonial Theory. 22. Not You/Like You: Postcolonial Women and the Interlocking Questions of Identity and Difference / Trinh T. Minh-ha. 23. Is the "Post-" in "Postcolonial" the "Post-" in "Postmodern"? / Kwame Anthony Appiah. 24. The World and the Home / Homi K. Bhabha. 25. Reading Africa through Foucault: V. Y. Mudimbe's Reaffirmation of the Subject / Manthia Diawara. 26. Teaching for the Times / Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. 27. Postcolonial Criticism and Indian Historiography / Gyan Prakash. 28. The Postcolonial Aura: Third World Criticism in the Age of Global Capitalism / Arif Dirlik.