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Race in Translation
Robert Stam
Ella Shohat
其他書名
Culture Wars Around the Postcolonial Atlantic
出版
NYU Press
, 2012-05-28
主題
Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural
Law / International
Law / Legal History
Social Science / Discrimination & Race Relations
ISBN
0814798381
9780814798386
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=aioUCgAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
While the term “culture wars” often designates the heated arguments in the English-speaking world spiraling around race, the canon, and affirmative action, in fact these discussions have raged in diverse sites and languages. Race in Translation charts the transatlantic traffic of the debates within and between three zones—the U.S., France, and Brazil. Stam and Shohat trace the literal and figurative translation of these multidirectional intellectual debates, seen most recently in the emergence of postcolonial studies in France, and whiteness studies in Brazil. The authors also interrogate an ironic convergence whereby rightist politicians like Sarkozy and Cameron join hands with some leftist intellectuals like Benn Michaels, Žižek, and Bourdieu in condemning “multiculturalism” and “identity politics.” At once a report from various “fronts” in the culture wars, a mapping of the germane literatures, and an argument about methods of reading the cross-border movement of ideas, the book constitutes a major contribution to our understanding of the Diasporic and the Transnational.