Identities / edited by Kwame Anthony Appiah and Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Other author Appiah, Anthony.
Other author Gates, Henry Louis, Jr.
Format Book
Publication InfoChicago : University of Chicago Press, 1995.
Description460 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Subjects
Criticism.
Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature.

Contents "British cannibals" : contemplation of an event in the death and resurrection of James Cook, explorer / Gananath Obeyesekere -- Race into culture : a critical genealogy of cultural identity / Walter Benn Michaels -- Occidentalism as counterdiscourse : "He Shang" in post-Mao China / Xiaomei Chen -- Fashion and the homospectatorial look / Diana Fuss -- Policing the black women's body in an urban context / Hazel V. Carby -- Woman skin deep : feminism and the postcolonial condition / Sara Suleri -- Acting bit : identity talk / Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak -- The empire renarrated : Season of migration to the north and the reinvention of the present / Saree S. Makdisi -- What is a Muslim? : fundamental commitment and cultural identity / Akeel Bilgrami -- Nationalism and social division in black arts poetry of the 1960's / Philip Brian Harper -- Black writing, white reading : race and the politics of feminist interpretation / Elizabeth Abel -- The erotics of Irishness / Cheryl Herr -- Diaspora : generation and the ground of Jewish identity / Daniel Boyarin and Jonathan Boyarin -- The time of the Gypsies : a "people without history" in the narratives of the West / Katie Trumpener --White philosophy / Avery Gordon and Christopher Newfield -- The no-drop rule / Walter Benn Michaels -- Fashionable theory and fashionable women : returning Fuss's homospectatorial look / Molly Anne Rothenberg and Joseph Valente -- Look who's talking, or if looks could kill / Diana Fuss -- Response to Identities / Michael Gorra -- Collected and fractured : response to Identities / Judith Butler
General note"The essays in this volume originally appeared in the journal Critical inquiry"--T.p. verso.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 95039956
ISBN0226284387 (cloth)
ISBN0226284395 (pbk.)

Availability

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Joyner General Stacks PN81 .I34 1995 ✔ Available Place Hold