Introducing this collection of essays, Francoise Lionnet and
Shu-mei Shih argue that looking back--investigating the historical,
intellectual, and political entanglements of contemporary academic
disciplines--offers a way for scholars in the humanities to move
critical debates forward. They describe how disciplines or
methodologies that seem distinct today emerged from overlapping
intellectual and political currents in the 1960s and early 1970s,
in the era of decolonization, the U.S. civil rights movement, and
antiwar activism. While both American ethnic studies programs and
"French theory" originated in decolonial impulses, over time,
French theory became depoliticized in the American academy.
Meanwhile, ethnic studies, and later also postcolonial studies,
developed politically and historically grounded critiques of
inequality. Suggesting that the abstract universalisms of
Euro-American theory may ultimately be the source of its demise,
Lionnet and Shih advocate the creolization of theory: the
development of a reciprocal, relational, and intersectional
critical approach attentive to the legacies of colonialism. This
use of creolization as a theoretical and analytical rubric is
placed in critical context by Dominique Chance, who provides a
genealogy of the concept of creolization. In their essays, leading
figures in their fields explore the intellectual, disciplinary, and
ethical implications of the creolized theory elaborated by Lionnet
and Shih. edouard Glisssant links the extremes of globalization to
those of colonialism and imperialism in an interview appearing for
the first time in English in this volume. "The Creolization of
Theory" is a bold intervention in debates about the role of theory
in the humanities.
"Contributors." etienne Balibar, Dominique Chance, Pheng Cheah,
Leo Ching, Liz Constable, Anne Donadey, Fatima El-Tayeb, Julin
Everett, edouard Glissant, Barnor Hesse, Ping-hui Liao, Francoise
Lionnet, Walter Mignolo, Andrea Schwieger Hiepko, Shu-mei Shih
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