Reconsidering Social Identification : Race, Gender, Class and Caste / Abdul R. JanMohamed

By:

Jan Mohamed, Abdul R

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Publication details: London : Routledge, c 2011.Edition: 1st edDescription: vii, 451 p.: 20.3 x 25.4 x 4.7 cmISBN:

9780367459338

DDC classification:

23 305 JAN

Contents:

Part I: Theoretical Approaches 1. African-American Women and the Republics 2. Genre Theory, Catachresis and the Fetish: The Case of Canada 3. Race in the Dialectics of Culture 4. What Lacan and Agamben Can Do for Subjectivity in the Age of Globalization: Additional Perspectives for Hardt's and Negri's Concept of Multitude Part II: Considerations of Race, Gender and Sexual Orientation 5. Transitions in Marginality: From 'Gender' to 'Ethnicity' in Contemporary Aotearoa/New Zealand 6. 'There Comes Papa': Sambandham with Specific Reference to the Nayar Community and Its Impact on Kerala Society, c. 1900-2009 7. Buying and Selling Blackness: White-Collar Boxing and Racialized Consumerism 8. Multiple Burdens, Multiple Identities: The Complex Consciousness of the African-American Women's Movement 9. 'They can't see us at all' : Queering Ontogenetic Liminality through 'Gayze' 10. Deliciously In Between: Transgressing Borders with Gay Best Friendship Part III: Comparative Analysis of African-American and Dalit Writing 11. Contestation of Intra-structural Power Shifts in the Categories of Race and Caste/Class in Maya Angelou and Bama 12. Towards a Theoretical Proposition for the Understanding of Caste and Race: A Pedagogical Perspective 13. Towards Reconstructing Caste, Class and Gender: Kalyana Rao's Antarani Vasantam (Untouchable Spring) Part IV: The Persistence of Racialized Perceptions 14. Women's Time? Turn-of-the-20th-Century Travel Writing on Korea 15. Political Conquests and Sexual Metaphors: A Study of Ballantyne's The Coral Island and Kipling's Jungle Books 16. The Political Economy of Asian Immigrant Labour in Canada: Intersections of Race, Gender and Class 17. Class, Gender and Ethnicity in Relation to Health Care: A Study of Social Disparities in Swedish Health Care

Summary: Essays in this anthology compare the interaction of social formations like race, gender, class and caste in the construction of social identities represented in literary and cultural texts.

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Part I: Theoretical Approaches
1. African-American Women and the Republics
2. Genre Theory, Catachresis and the Fetish: The Case of Canada
3. Race in the Dialectics of Culture
4. What Lacan and Agamben Can Do for Subjectivity in the Age of Globalization: Additional Perspectives for Hardt's and Negri's Concept of Multitude
Part II: Considerations of Race, Gender and Sexual Orientation
5. Transitions in Marginality: From 'Gender' to 'Ethnicity' in Contemporary Aotearoa/New Zealand
6. 'There Comes Papa': Sambandham with Specific Reference to the Nayar Community and Its Impact on Kerala Society, c. 1900-2009
7. Buying and Selling Blackness: White-Collar Boxing and Racialized Consumerism
8. Multiple Burdens, Multiple Identities: The Complex Consciousness of the African-American Women's Movement
9. 'They can't see us at all' : Queering Ontogenetic Liminality through 'Gayze'
10. Deliciously In Between: Transgressing Borders with Gay Best Friendship
Part III: Comparative Analysis of African-American and Dalit Writing
11. Contestation of Intra-structural Power Shifts in the Categories of Race and Caste/Class in Maya Angelou and Bama
12. Towards a Theoretical Proposition for the Understanding of Caste and Race: A Pedagogical Perspective
13. Towards Reconstructing Caste, Class and Gender: Kalyana Rao's Antarani Vasantam (Untouchable Spring)
Part IV: The Persistence of Racialized Perceptions
14. Women's Time? Turn-of-the-20th-Century Travel Writing on Korea
15. Political Conquests and Sexual Metaphors: A Study of Ballantyne's The Coral Island and Kipling's Jungle Books
16. The Political Economy of Asian Immigrant Labour in Canada: Intersections of Race, Gender and Class
17. Class, Gender and Ethnicity in Relation to Health Care: A Study of Social Disparities in Swedish Health Care

Essays in this anthology compare the interaction of social formations like race, gender, class and caste in the construction of social identities represented in literary and cultural texts.

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