TY  - BOOK
AU  - Figueira,Dorothy M.
TI  - Otherwise Occupied: Pedagogies of Alterity and the Brahminization of Theory
SN  - 9780791477601
AV  - PN94 -- .F49 2008eb 
U1  - 801/.950904 
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Albany
PB  - State University of New York Press
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- OTHERWISE OCCUPIED -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. CRITICAL BACKGROUND TO POSTSTRUCTURALIST THEORIES AND PEDAGOGIES OF ALTERITY -- 2. MULTICULTURALISM -- SIMULATED BATTLES -- THE INSTITUTIONALIZATIONOF MULTICULTURALISM -- THE METHODOLOGY OF MULTICULTURALISM -- MARKETING THE MARGIN -- MASKING THE METANARRATIVE OF RACE -- 3. POSTCOLONIAL CRITICISM AND IDENTITARIAN POLITICS -- DEFINITIONS AND THE SCOPE OF POSTCOLONIAL CRITICISM -- HISTORY AND POSTCOLONIAL SUBJECTIVITY -- THE POSTCOLONIAL CRITIC -- THE REPRESSIVE ALLURE OF POSTCOLONIAL CRITICISM -- 4. THE BRAHMINIZATION OF THEORY:COMMODITY FETISHISM AND FALSE CONSCIOUSNESS -- INTRODUCTION -- POSTCOLONIAL CRITICISM'S DISCIPLINARY ROOTS -- COMMODIFYING POSTCOLONIAL THEORY AND TYPE-CASTING THE CRITIC -- FALSE CONSCIOUSNESS -- COMMODITY FETISHISM AND BRAHMINIZATION -- 5. THE ROMANCE OF EXILE -- INTRODUCTION -- SPOKESPERSONSHIP -- THE EXILE -- THE NOMAD -- A WAND'RING MINSTREL I,A THING OF SHREDS AND PATCHES -- 6. OCCIDENTALISM -- THEORY CONFRONTS REALITY -- RHETORIC -- THE FALLACI AFFAIR -- FINAL BELIEFS -- 7. GESTURES OF INCLUSION -- INTRODUCTION -- POSITIVE DISCRIMINATION IN INDIA -- AFFIRMATIVE ACTION IN THE UNITED STATES -- COSMETIC ENHANCEMENT -- Conclusion: THE COLLECTING OF THE OTHER -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Ž
N2  - Questions whether current theories and pedagogies of alterity have allowed us truly to engage the Other
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