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Françoise Lionnet is Professor of French and Francophone Studies, Comparative Literature, and Women’s Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Shu-mei Shih is Professor of Comparative Literature, Asian Languages and Cultures, and Asian American Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. Lionnet and Shih are co-directors of the "Cultures in Transnational Perspective" Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship Program in the Humanities at UCLA and co-editors of Minor Transnationalism, also published by Duke University Press.
Sommario
Acknowledgments vii
Introduction: The Creolization of Theory / Shu-mei Shih and Françoise Lionnet 1
Part 1. Creolizing Methodologies
1. Symptomatically Black: A Creolization of the Political / Barnor Hesse 37
2. Postslavery and Postcolonial Representations: Comparative Approaches / Anne Donadey 62
3. Crises of Money / Pheng Cheah 83
4. Material Histories of Transcolonial Loss: Creolizing Psychoanalytic Theories of Melancholia? / Liz Constable 112
5. From Multicultural to Creole Subjects: David Henry Hwang's Collaborative Works with Philip Glass / Ping-hui Liao 142
Part 2. Epistemological Locations
6. I Am Where I Think: Remapping the Order of Knowing / Walter Mignolo 159
7. Taiwan in Modernity/Coloniality:
Orphan of Asia and the Colonial Difference / Leo Ching 193
8. Toward a Diasporic Citizen? From Internationalism to Cosmopolitics / Etienne Balibar 207
9. "The Forces of Creolization": Colorblindness and Visible Minorities in the New Europe / Fatima El-Tayeb 226
Part 3. Appendix
A. Europe and the Antilles: An Interview with Edouard Glissant / Andrea Schwieger Hiepko (Translated by Julin Everett) 255
B. Creolization: Definition and Critique / Dominique Chancé (Translated by Julin Everett) 262
References 269
Contributors 293
Index 297
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Françoise Lionnet and Shu-mei Shih, eds.
Riassunto
This bold intervention in debates about the role of theory in the humanities advocates the development of a reciprocal, relational, and intersectional critical methodology attentive to the legacies of colonialism.
