Livre - Race in translation
306 STA
Description
Livre
New York University Press
Stam Robert 1941 - ...
Shohat Ella Habiba 1959 - ...
Presentation materielle : 1 vol. (XX-363 p.)
Dimensions : 24 cm
“Race in Translation is a masterpiece, an extraordinarily bold and brilliant book rich with erudition and insight. The imaginative and in-depth analyses of intercultural conflicts and coalescences offer original and generative answers to the most important questions haunting contemporary scholarship and civic life.” GEORGE LIPSITZ, author of How Racism Takes Place “A deeply researched, provocative synthesis of the ways in which race has been conceptualized in Brazil, United States and France. Arguing that ‘All nations are transnations,’ the authors explore the ‘Red,’ ‘Black’ and ‘White’ Atlantic, tracking the circulation of ideas and their translation. In doing so, they critically address both the rightist and leftist blindness to race. This is a balanced, thoughtful and clearly written work that should be used widely in university classrooms.” FRANCOISE VERGÈS, Goldsmiths College, London While the term “culture wars” often designates the heated arguments in the English-speaking world spiraling around race, the canon, and affirmative action, in fact these discussions have raged in sites and languages. While the term “culture wars” often designates the heated arguments in the English-speaking world spiralling around race, the canon, and affirmative action, in fact these discussions have raged in multiple sites and languages. Charting the multidirectional traffic of the debates, Stam/Shohat trace their literal and figurative translation, seen in French Postcolonial Studies and Brazilian Whiteness Studies, and in such cultural phenomena as Tropicalia and Hip-Hop. The authors also interrogate an ironic convergence whereby rightist politicians, along with the Neo-Cons and nouveaux philosophes, join hands with leftist intellectuals like Benn Michaels, Žižek, and Bourdieu in condemning “multiculturalism” and “identity politics.” At once a report from various “fronts” in the culture wars, a mapping of the germane literatures, and an argument about cross-border comparison and interlocution, the book elaborates such concepts as indigeneity and the Atlantic Enlightenment; intercolonial narcissism; the perils of the Latin/Anglo-Saxon dichotomy; and Black-Jewish-Muslim inresections and analogies. Robert Stam is University Professor at New York University. Ella Shohat is Professor of Cultural Studies at New York University. Stam/Shohat have co-authored Unthinking Eurocentrism (1994); Multiculturalism, Postcoloniality, and Transnational Media (2003); and Flagging Patriotism: Crises of Narcissism and Anti-Americanism (2007). Their work has been translated into more than fifteen languages.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, ix PREFACE, xiii 1. THE ATLANTIC ENLIGHTENMENT, p. 1 The Red Atlantic, p. 2 The Indigene and the Epistemological Crisis, p. 7 The Black Atlantic and the Aporias of the Universal, p. 13 Antinomies of the Enlightenment, p. 17 White Voices against Imperial Reason, p. 22 2. A TALE OF THREE REPUBLICS, p. 26 Franco-Brazilian Liaisons, p. 31 Brazilo-American Encontros, p. 38 Diasporic Longings, p. 42 From Black Orpheus to Barack Obama, p. 49 Between Anglo-Saxonism and Latinism, p. 51 Racing Translation, p. 57 3. THE SEISMIC SHIFT AND THE DECOLONIZATION OF KNOWLEDGE, p. 61 The Protocols of Eurocentrism, p. 61 The Postwar Rupture, p. 68 The Radicalization of the Disciplines, p. 75 Multiculturalism and the Decolonizing Corpus, p. 82 Situating Postcolonial Studies, p. 85 4. IDENTITY POLITICS AND THE RIGHT/LEFT CONVERGENCE, p. 93 The Politics of Scapegoating, p. 96 Troubling Diversity, p. 101 The Bourdieu/Wacquant Polemic, p. 106 An “American” Discourse?, p. 113 Žižek and the Universal Imaginary, p. 118 The Ghosting of the Particular, p. 126 5. FRANCE, THE UNITED STATES, AND THE CULTURE WARS, p. 132 Sobbing for the White Man, p. 134 Minorities and the Specter of Identitarianism, p. 137 The Anxieties behind an Antagonism, p. 142 Hip-Hop and the Racialization of the Everyday, p. 146 Allegorical Crossings: Blacks, Jews, Muslims, p. 154 “From Mao to Moses”: Neocons and the Nouveaux Philosophes, p. 162 France’s Multicultural Turn, p. 172 6. BRAZIL, THE UNITED STATES, AND THE CULTURE WARS, p. 175 “Racial Democracy” and Black Consciousness, p. 175 The Anatomy of Skepticism, p. 179 The Uses and Abuses of Comparison, p. 183 Desire, Denial, and Linked Analogies, p. 189 Popular Culture, Tropicália, and the Rainbow Atlantic, p. 194 Scholarship and the Persistence of Race, p. 206 7. FROM AFFIRMATIVE ACTION TO INTERROGATING WHITENESS, p. 209 Remedial Measures and the Legacy of Affirmative Whiteness, p. 209 The Quotas Debate in Brazil, p. 216 The American Foil, p. 222 The Advent of Whiteness Studies, p. 229 Debating Whiteness, Blackness, and Mestiçagem, p. 233 The Critique of Normative Frenchness, p. 238 8 FRENCH INTELLECTUALS AND THE POSTCOLONIAL, p. 244 Ironies of an Aversion, p. 245 Decolonizing la République, p. 248 The Hesitation-Waltz of French Postcolonial Studies, p. 255 The Quarrel over Genealogy, p. 261 Genres of Postcolonial Écriture, p. 265 9. THE TRANSNATIONAL TRAFFIC OF IDEAS, p. 270 France, the United States, and Brazil Studies, p. 270 French Theory In and Out of Place, p. 272 Allegories of Intrusion, p. 276 Cultural Studies and Critical Utopias, p. 284 Triangular Readings, p. 289 Theorizing Cross-Border Interlocution, p. 293 Translational Relationalities, p. 298 NOTES, p. 301 INDEX, p. 335 ABOUT THE AUTHORS, p. 363
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