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: Routledge India
• Seitenzahl: 462
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Januar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 577g
• ISBN-13: 9781138663879
• ISBN-10: 1138663875
• Artikelnr.: 44826355

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction/Abdul R. JanMohamed
Part I: Theoretical Approaches
1. African
American Women and the Republics/Hortense Spillers
2. Genre Theory, Catachresis and the Fetish:
The Case of Canada/J. Douglas Kneale
3. Race in the Dialectics of Culture/Lewis R. Gordon
4. What Lacan and Agamben Can Do for Subjectivity in the Age of Globalization: Additional Perspectives for Hardt's and Negri's Concept of Multitude/Myoung Ah Shin
Part II: Considerations of Race, Gender and Sexual Orientation
5. Transitions in Marginality: From 'Gender' to 'Ethnicity' in Contemporary Aotearoa/New Zealand/Rachel 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 the African
American Women's Movement/T. Sarada
9. 'They can't see us at all': Queering Ontogenetic Liminality through 'Gayze'/Mashrur Shahid Hossain
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/D. Laura Dameris Chellajothi
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/Young
hee Kim
15. Political Conquests and Sexual Metaphors: A Study of Ballantyne's The Coral Island and Kipling's Jungle Books/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 of Social Disparities in Swedish Health Care/Sharareh Akhavan
Bibliography
About the Editor
Notes on Contributors
Index.