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Scattered Hegemonies Postmodernity and Transnational Feminist Practices Inderpal Grewal and Caren Kaplan, editors |
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Scattered Hegemonies explores the possibilities of doing feminist work across cultural divides without ignoring differences or falling into cultural relativism. The essays in this volume propose transnational feminist reading and writing practices that counter the "scattered hegemonies" of postmodernism, neo- and postcolonialisms, and feminism. The authors gathered here bring the issues of colonialism and postcolonialism into the typically aesthetic debates over postmodernism and the construction of culture; at the same time, they broaden these debates to include the normally excluded issue of feminist participation. Asking how ideas of postmodernism and postcolonialism are variously deployed by feminists and others in different locations allows the authors to trace the flow of information and theory in transnational cultural production. To this end, they pursue two lines of questioning: What kinds of feminist practices engender theories that resist the question of modernism? And how do we understand the production and reception of diverse forms of feminism within a framework of transnational social/cultural/economic movements? "Grewal and Kaplan present us with feminist analyses beyond the ethnocentric limits of Western boundaries. No section of the world is left untouched, underscoring the importance of turning our postmodern lenses outwards as well as inwards. Grewal and Kaplan's Scattered Hegemonies provide globally diverse interventions into the discourses of postmodernity and identity politics." —Journal of Communication "This kind of scholarship clearly requires strong bicultural perceptions, bilingual abilities, theoretical and critical sophistication, and rigor-and the essays offer some excellent samples of such scholarship." —Signs "Here is a book that brings feminist cultural studies writers into conversation with Asian women shelters activists, a conversation that reveals how risky it is for any of us to imagine that nationalism and post-modernism aren't acutely political." —Cynthia H. Enloe Inderpal Grewal is an associate professor of women's studies at San Francisco State University. Caren Kaplan is an assistant professor of women's studies at the University of California, Berkeley. 272 pages | 1 drawing | 6 x 9 | 1994 |
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