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Dangerous Liaisons Gender, Nation, and Postcolonial Perspectives

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ISBN-10: 0816626499

ISBN-13: 9780816626496

Edition: 1997

Authors: Anne Mcclintock, Aamir Mufti, Ella Shohat

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In Dangerous Liaisons, eminent contributors address the issues raised by the postcolonial condition, considering nationhood, history, gender and identity from an interdisciplinary perspective.
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List price: $27.50
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Publication date: 3/1/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 560
Size: 7.00" wide x 10.00" long x 1.20" tall
Weight: 2.090
Language: English

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Acknowledgments
Introduction
Contesting Nations
Zionism from the Standpoint of Its Victims
Sephardim in Israel: Zionism from the Standpoint of Its Jewish Victims
Of Balkans and Bantustans: Ethnic Cleansing and the Crisis in National Legitimation
"No Longer in a Future Heaven": Gender, Race, and Nationalism
Currying Favor: The Politics of British Educational and Cultural Policy in India, 1813-54
The Nation as Imagined Community
Multiculturalism and Diasporic Identities
On the Question of a Theory of (Third) World Literature
Caliban Speaks Five Hundred Years Later
The Local and the Global: Globalization and Ethnicity
Multiculturalism and the Neoconservatives
Shuckin' Off the African-American Native Other: What's "Po-Mo" Got to Do with It?
Identity, Meaning, and the African-American
Just Looking for Trouble: Robert Mapplethorpe and Fantasies of Race
Gender and the Politics of Race
Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses
Traddutora, Traditora: A Paradigmatic Figure of Chicana Feminism
American Indian Women: At the Center of Indigenous Resistance in Contemporary North America
"On the Threshold of Woman's Era": Lynching, Empire, and Sexuality in Black Feminist Theory
Making Empire Respectable: The Politics of Race and Sexual Morality in Twentieth-Century Colonial Cultures
Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Redefining Difference
Gender Is Burning: Questions of Appropriation and Subversion
Sisterhood: Political Solidarity between Women
Postcolonial Theory
Not You/Like You: Postcolonial Women and the Interlocking Questions of Identity and Difference
Is the "Post-" in "Postcolonial" the "Post-" in "Postmodern"?
The World and the Home
Reading Africa through Foucault: V. Y. Mudimbe's Reaffirmation of the Subject
Teaching for the Times
Postcolonial Criticism and Indian Historiography
The Postcolonial Aura: Third World Criticism in the Age of Global Capitalism
Contributors
Publication History
Index