Locating race
Subtitle: global sites of postcolonial citizenship
By: Malini Johar Schueller.
Series: Suny series, explorations in postcolonial studies
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 247
ISBN-13: 9780791476819; 9780791476826
Subjects: American literature -- Asian American authors -- History and criticism; Race in literature; Imperialism in literature; Globalization in literature; Postcolonialism in literature; Postcolonialism -- United States; Race -- Philosophy; Globalization -- Philosophy; United States -- Race relations
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Theorizing race, postcoloniality and globalization; title: Expunging the politics of location: articulations of African-Americanism in Bhabha, Appadurai, and Spivak; title: Border crossing, analogy, and universalism in (white) feminist theory: the color of the cyborg body; title: Globalization and Orientalism: Iyer's Video nights in Kathmandu, Alexander's Fault lines and Mukherjee's Jasmine; title: Claiming national space and postcolonial critique: the Asian-American performances of Tseng Kwong Chi; title: Black nationalism and anti-imperial resistance in Shakur's autobiography; title: Recognition and decolonization in Silko's Almanac of the dead.