Dangerous Liaisons Gender, Nation, and Postcolonial Perspectives Anne McClintock, Aamir Mufti, Ella Shohat, editors		$27.50 Paper ISBN: 0-8166-2649-9 ISBN-13: 978-0-8166-2649-6
The first collection to emphasize the complex interaction between gender and postcoloniality. Most people in the world, from Africa to Asia and beyond, live in the aftermath of colonialism. Their day-to-day lives are defined by their past history as colonized peoples, often in ways that are subtle or hard to define. In Dangerous Liaisons, eminent contributors address the issues raised by the postcolonial condition, considering nationhood, history, gender, and identity from an interdisciplinary perspective. Among the questions they address are: What are the boundaries of race and ethnicity in a diasporic world? How have women been so effectively excluded from national power? What have been the historical aftermaths of different forms of colonialism? What are the cultural and political consequences of colonial partitions of the nation-state? Representing an essential intervention, Dangerous Liaisons is a crucial guidebook for those concerned with understanding postcoloniality at the moment when it is becoming more and more widely discussed. “Please buy this book. You’ll be glad you did.” —The Diversity Factor “Dangerous Liaisons is one of the best postcolonial studies collections available.” —MultiCultural Review “Dangerous Liaisons uses postcolonial analysis, theory and criticism to address the constructions of nation, race, and gender in the Third World. The book is a fascinating and interestingly varied collection of pieces on postcolonial perspectives.” —Ethnic Conflict Research Digest “Dangerous Liaisons successfully showcases some of the more politically engaged postcolonial criticism emerging in the last eighteen years.” —Signs Anne McClintock is associate professor of gender and cultural studies in the Department of English at Columbia University. Aamir Mufti is assistant professor of English and comparative literature at the University of Michigan. Ella Shohat is professor of cultural studies and women's studies at the City University of New York Graduate Center. 560 pages | 1997 Cultural Politics Series, volume 11 Table of Contents Part I: Contesting Nations Edward W. Said, Zionism from the Standpoint of Its Victims Ella Shohat, Sephardim in Israel: Zionism from the Standpoint of Its Jewish Victims Rob Nixon, Of Balkans and Bantustans: Ethnic Cleansing and the Crisis in National Legitimation Anne McClintock, "No Longer in a Future Heaven": Gender, Race, and Nationalism Gauri Viswanathan, Currying Favor: The Politics of British Educational and Cultural Policy in India, 1813-1954 Jean Franco, The Nation as Imagined Community Part II: Multiculturalism and Diasporic Identities Madhava Prasad, On the Question of a Theory of (Third) World Literature Roberto Fernandez Retamar, Caliban Speaks Five Hundred Years Later Stuart Hall, The Local and the Global: Globalization and Ethnicity Robert Stam, Multiculturalism and the Neoconservatives Wahneema Lubiano, Shuckin' Off the African-American Native Other: What's "Po-Mo" Got to Do with It? Michael Hanchard, Identity, Meaning, and the African-American Kobena Mercer, Just Looking for Trouble: Robert Mapplethorpe and Fantasies of Race Part III: Gender and the Politics of Race Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Norma Alarcón, Traddutora, Traditora: A Paradigmatic Figure of Chicana Feminism M. Annette Jaimes with Theresa Halsey, American Indian Women: At the Center of Indigenous Resistance in Contemporary North America Hazel V. Carby, "On the Threshold of Woman's Era": Lynching, Empire, and Sexuality in Black Feminist Theory Ann Laura Stoler, Making Empire Respectable: The Politics of Race and Sexual Morality in Twentieth-Century Colonial Cultures Audre Lorde, Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Redefining Difference Judith Butler, Gender is Burning: Questions of Appropriation and Subversion bell hooks, Sisterhood: Political Solidarity between Women Part IV: Postcolonial Theory Trinh T. Minh-ha, Not You/Like You: Postcolonial Women and the Interlocking Questions of Identity and Difference Kwame Anthony Appiah, Is the "Post-" in "Postcolonial" the "Post-" in "Postmodern"? Homi K. Bhabha, The World and the Home Manthia Diawana, Reading Africa Through Foucault: V.Y. Mudimbe's Reaffirmation of the Subject Gayatri Spivak, Teaching for the Times Gyan Prakash, Postcolonial Criticism and Indian Historiography Arif Dirlik, The Postcolonial Aura: Third World Criticism in the Age of Global Capitalism