Traber reexamines the practice of self-marginalization in
Euro-American literature and popular culture that depict whites
adopting varied markers of otherness to disengage from the dominant
culture. He draws on critical theory, whiteness and cultural
studies to counter an eager correlation between marginality and
agency. The nonconformist cultural politics of these border
crossings implode since the transgressive identity the protagonists
desire relies upon, is built from, the center's values and
definitions. An orthodox notion of individualism underpins each act
of sovereignty as it rationalizes exploiting stereotypes of an
Other constructed by the center. The work closes by positing a
theory of identity based on Jean-Luc Nancy's concept of the emptied
self. In recognizing the already mixed quality of being, identity
is made a vacuous concept as the standards for determining self and
difference become too slippery to hold.
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