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.
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 Hardts and Negris
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. 19002009/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 Womens Movement/T. Sarada --
9. They
cant 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 Raos Antarani
Vasantam (Untouchable Spring)/M. Sridhar -- Part IV: The Persistence of
Racialized Perceptions --
14. Womens Time? Turn-of-the-20th-Century Travel
Writing on Korea/Young-hee Kim --
15. Political Conquests and Sexual
Metaphors: A Study of Ballantynes The Coral Island and Kiplings 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.
Abdul R. JanMohamed is Chancellor's Professor, Department of English, University of California, Berkeley.
