Minor Transnationalism

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- françoise lionnet and shu-mei shih Introduction: Thinking through the Minor, Transnationally -- I. Theorizing -- Inclusions: Psychoanalysis, Transnationalism, and Minority Cultures -- Rational and Irrational Choices: Form, Affect, and Ethics -- Toward an Ethics of Transnat...
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- françoise lionnet and shu-mei shih Introduction: Thinking through the Minor, Transnationally -- I. Theorizing -- Inclusions: Psychoanalysis, Transnationalism, and Minority Cultures -- Rational and Irrational Choices: Form, Affect, and Ethics -- Toward an Ethics of Transnational Encounters, or, ‘‘When’’ Does a ‘‘Chinese’’ Woman Become a ‘‘Feminist’’? -- The Postmodern Subaltern: Globalization Theory and the Subject of Ethnic, Area, and Postcolonial Studies -- II. Historicizing -- Murder in Montmartre: Race, Sex, and Crime in Jazz Age Paris -- Giving ‘‘Minor’’ Pasts a Future: Narrating History in Transnational Cinematic Autobiography -- Major and Minor Discourses of the Vernacular: Discrepant African Histories -- III. Reading, Writing, Performing -- Transcolonial Translations: Shakespeare in Mauritius -- Postcolonial Theory and the Predicament of ‘‘Minor Literature’’ -- The Calm Beauty of Japan at Almost the Speed of Sound: Sakamoto Ky¯ u and the Translations of Rockabilly -- IV. Spatializing -- Cartographies of Globalization, Technologies of Gendered Subjectivities: The Dub Poetry of Jean ‘‘Binta’’ Breeze -- The Double Logic of Minor Spaces -- National Space as Minor Space: Afro-Brazilian Culture and the Pelourinho -- Alternate Geographies and the Melancholy of Mestizaje -- Contributors -- Index Ausführliche Beschreibung