Dangerous Liaisons : Gender, Nation, and Postcolonial Perspectives

McClintock, Anne (EDT); Mufti, Aamir (EDT); Shohat, Ella (EDT); Social Text Collective (COR)

ISBN 10: 0816626499 / ISBN 13: 9780816626496

Verlag: Univ Of Minnesota Press, 1997

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 210599-n

Inhaltsangabe:

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.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: Ella Shohat, an Arab-Jew of a Baghdadi family now living in New York, is professor of cultural studies at New York University and the author of Israeli Cinema: East/West and the Politics of Representation and Taboo Memories, Diasporic Voices, amongst many other works.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Dangerous Liaisons : Gender, Nation, and ...
Verlag: Univ Of Minnesota Press
Erscheinungsdatum: 1997
Einband: Softcover
Zustand: New