Reconsidering Social Identification

Race, Gender, Class and Caste
Herausgeber: Janmohamed, Abdul R

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Produktbeschreibung

This volume investigates how four socially constructed identities (race, gender, class and caste) can be rethought as matrices designed to accumulate various kinds of socio-economic values and to translate and transfer these values from one group to another. Essays in the anthology also attempt to compare the mechanisms deployed by various groups to consolidate identificatory investments. Drawn mainly for the fields of literary and cultural studies, the essays are grouped in four categories. Essays collected under 'Theoretical Approaches' scrutinize the relative value of various approaches; those collected under 'Considerations of Race, Gender, and Sexual Orientation' examine the interaction between these three categories in formation of identities; those grouped under 'Comparative Analysis of African-American and Dalit Writing' provide comparative analyses of the literary productions of these two oppressed groups; and, finally, those under 'The Persistence of Racialized Perceptions' focus on the role of ideologically inflected perception of European colonizers and the persistence of such perception in the categorization and treatment of colonial migrants to the metropolis.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 462
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Oktober 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 155mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 635g
• ISBN-13: 9780415685672
• ISBN-10: 0415685672
• Artikelnr.: 33380583

Autorenporträt

Abdul R. JanMohamed is Chancellor's Professor, Department of English, University of California, Berkeley.

Inhaltsangabe

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