Race in Translation - Culture Wars around the Postcolonial Atlantic (Hardcover, New)

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 diverse sites and languages. Race in Translation charts the transatlantic traffic of the debates within and between three zones--the U.S., France, and Brazil. Stam and Shohat trace the literal and figurative translation of these multidirectional intellectual debates, seen most recently in the emergence of postcolonial studies in France, and whiteness studies in Brazil. The authors also interrogate an ironic convergence whereby rightist politicians like Sarkozy and Cameron join hands with some leftist intellectuals like Benn Michaels, i ek, 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 methods of reading the cross-border movement of ideas, the book constitutes a major contribution to our understanding of the Diasporic and the Transnational."

General

Imprint:	New York University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	May 2012
First published:	May 2012
Authors:	Ella Shohat • Robert Stam
Dimensions:	229 x 153 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	383
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-8147-9837-9
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > General
LSN:	0-8147-9837-3
Barcode:	9780814798379

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