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Informationen zum Autor Abdul R. JanMohamed is Chancellor's Professor, Department of English, University of California, Berkeley. Klappentext Essays in this anthology compare the interaction of social formations like race, gender, class and caste in the construction of social identities represented in literary and cultural texts. Zusammenfassung Essays in this anthology compare the interaction of social formations like race, gender, class and caste in the construction of social identities represented in literary and cultural texts. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements. Introduction: ‘The Political Economy of Social Division: Race, Gender, Class and Caste as Fetishized/Fetishizing Borders Abdul R. JanMohamed Part I. Theoretical Approaches 1. African-American Women and the Republics H. Spillers 2. Genre Theory, Catachresis, and the Fetish: The Case of Canada Douglass Kneale 3. Race in the Dialectics of Culture Lewis Gordon 4. What Lacan and Agamben can do for Subjectivity in the Age of Globalization: Additional Perspectives for the Concept of Hardt’s and Negri’s Multitude Myoung Ah Shin Part II: Considerations of Race, Gender, Sexual Orientation 5. Transitions in Marginality: From ‘Gender’ to ‘Ethnicity’ in Contemporary Aotearoa/New Zealand Rachael Simon Kumar 6. There Comes Papa: Sambandham with Specific Reference to the Nayar Community and its Impact on Kerala Society c. 1900–2009 A. Raghu 7. Buying and Selling Blackness: White-Collar Boxing and Racialized Consumerism Lucia Trimbur 8. Multiple Burdens, Multiple Identities: The Complex Consciousness of African-American Women’s Movement T. Sarada 9. ‘They Can’t See Us at All’: Queering Ontogenetic Liminality through ‘Gayze’ Mashrur Houssain 10. Deliciously in Between: Transgressing Borders with Gay Best Friendship Kathryn Hummel Part III. Comparative Analysis of African-American and Dalit Writing 11. Contestation of Intra-Structural Power Shifts in the Categories of Race and Caste/Class in Maya Angelou and Bama Laura Delano 12. Towards a Theoretical Proposition for the Understanding of Caste and Race: A Pedagogical Perspective Alladi Uma 13. Towards Reconstructing Caste, Class and Gender: Kalyana Rao’s Antarani Vasantam (Untouchable Spring) M. Sridhar Part IV. The Persistence of Racialized Perceptions 14. Women’s Time? Turn of the 20th Century Travel Writing on Korea Kim Young-hee 15. Political Conquests and Sexual Metaphors Marie Fernandes 16. The Political Economy of Asian Immigrant Labour in Canada: Intersections of Race, Gender, and Class Habiba Zaman 17. Class, Gender and Ethnicity in Relation to Health Care – A Study on Social Disparities in the Swedish Healthcare Shrarah Akhvan ...
