Dangerous Liaisons: Gender, Nation, and Postcolonial Perspectives
The first collection to emphasize the complex interaction between gender and postcoloniality.\ Most people in the world, from Africa to Asia and beyond, live in the aftermath of colonialism. Their day-to-day lives are defined by their past history as colonized peoples, often in ways that are subtle or hard to define. In Dangerous Liaisons, eminent contributors address the issues raised by the postcolonial condition, considering nationhood, history, gender, and identity from an...
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The first collection to emphasize the complex interaction between gender and postcoloniality.Most people in the world, from Africa to Asia and beyond, live in the aftermath of colonialism. Their day-to-day lives are defined by their past history as colonized peoples, often in ways that are subtle or hard to define. In Dangerous Liaisons, eminent contributors address the issues raised by the postcolonial condition, considering nationhood, history, gender, and identity from an inter-disciplinary perspective.Among the questions they address are: What are the boundaries of race and ethnicity in a diasporic world? How have women been so effectively excluded from national power? What have been the historical aftermaths of different forms of colonialism? What are the cultural and political consequences of colonial partitions of the nation-state? Representing an essential intervention, Dangerous Liaisons is a crucial guidebook for those concerned with understanding postcoloniality at the moment when it is becoming more and more widely discussed.
AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1Pt. IContesting Nations1Zionism from the Standpoint of Its Victims152Sephardim in Israel: Zionism from the Standpoint of Its Jewish Victims393Of Balkans and Bantustans: Ethnic Cleansing and the Crisis in National Legitimation694"No Longer in a Future Heaven": Gender, Race, and Nationalism895Currying Favor: The Politics of British Educational and Cultural Policy in India, 1813-541136The Nation as Imagined Community130Pt. IIMulticulturalism and Diasporic Identities7On the Question of a Theory of (Third) World Literature1418Caliban Speaks Five Hundred Years Later1639The Local and the Global: Globalization and Ethnicity17310Multiculturalism and the Neoconservatives18811Shuckin' Off the African-American Native Other: What's "Po-Mo" Got to Do with It?20412Identity, Meaning, and the African-American23013Just Looking for Trouble: Robert Mapplethorpe and Fantasies of Race240Pt. IIIGender and the Politics of Race14Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses25515Traddutora, Traditora: A Paradigmatic Figure of Chicana Feminism27816American Indian Women: At the Center of Indigenous Resistance in Contemporary North America29817"On the Threshold of Woman's Era": Lynching, Empire, and Sexuality in Black Feminist Theory33018Making Empire Respectable: The Politics of Race and Sexual Morality in Twentieth-Century Colonial Cultures34419Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Redefining Difference37420Gender Is Burning: Questions of Appropriation and Subversion38121Sisterhood: Political Solidarity between Women396Pt. IVPostcolonial Theory22Not You/Like You: Postcolonial Women and the Interlocking Questions of Identity and Difference41523Is the "Post-" in "Postcolonial" the "Post-" in "Postmodern"?42024The World and the Home44525Reading Africa through Foucault: V. Y. Mudimbe's Reaffirmation of the Subject45626Teaching for the Times46827Postcolonial Criticism and Indian Historiography49128The Postcolonial Aura: Third World Criticism in the Age of Global Capitalism501Contributors529Publication History533Index537
