Writing Diaspora in the West - Intimacy, Identity and the New Marginalism (Hardcover)

In Writing Diaspora in the West, Peter McCarthy argues that the surveyors and theoreticians of modern human subjectivity have discovered in the margins a motherland, nourishing and nurturing them in the fantastic culture of what he terms the 'new marginalism'. This culture, McCarthy argues, is the product of a certain fantasy, the projection of a subjective homeland onto the various margins of discourse, subjectivity, history and geography that goes beyond a Left minoritarian ethos. This fantasy leads to a certain marginal affectivity, a fascination and identification with things perceived at the margins or bounds of a psychopathological homeland, especially with those who live or subsist there. McCarthy's work stands as a challenge toliberal critical orthodoxies concerning the representation of marginal experience.

General

Imprint:	Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	February 2009
First published:	2009
Authors:	P. McCarthy
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	179
ISBN-13:	978-0-230-21887-1
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary theory Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > History of ideas, intellectual history
LSN:	0-230-21887-3
Barcode:	9780230218871

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