"Minor Transnationalism" moves beyond a binary model of minority
cultural formations that often dominates contemporary cultural and
postcolonial studies. Where that model presupposes that minorities
necessarily and continuously engage with and against majority
cultures in a vertical relationship of assimilation and opposition,
this volume brings together case studies that reveal a much more
varied terrain of minority interactions with both majority cultures
and other minorities. The contributors recognize the persistence of
colonial power relations and the power of global capital, attend to
the inherent complexity of minor expressive cultures, and engage
with multiple linguistic formations as they bring postcolonial
minor cultural formations across national boundaries into
productive comparison.
Based in a broad range of fields--including literature, history,
African studies, Asian American studies, Asian studies, French and
francophone studies, and Latin American studies--the contributors
complicate ideas of minority cultural formations and challenge the
notion that transnationalism is necessarily a homogenizing force.
They cover topics as diverse as competing versions of Chinese
womanhood; American rockabilly music in Japan; the trope of
"mestizaje" in Chicano art and culture; dub poetry radio broadcasts
in Jamaica; creole theater in Mauritius; and race relations in
Salvador, Brazil. Together, they point toward a new theoretical
vocabulary, one capacious enough to capture the almost infinitely
complex experiences of minority groups and positions in a
transnational world.
"Contributors." Moradewun Adejunmobi, Ali Behdad, Michael
Bourdaghs, Suzanne Gearhart, Susan Koshy, Francoise Lionnet, Seiji
M. Lippit, Elizabeth Marchant, Kathleen McHugh, David Palumbo-Liu,
Rafael Perez-Torres, Jenny Sharpe, Shu-mei Shih, Tyler Stovall
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