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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