Introduction: Thinking through the Minor, Transnationally
Resource
中外文學, 36(2), 019-049
Journal
中外文學
Journal Volume
36
Journal Issue
2
Pages
019-049
Date Issued
2007-06
Date
2007-06
Author(s)
Lionnet, F.
Shih, S.M.
Sheng, S.Y.
Su, J.
Abstract
Serving as the “Introduction” to the volume Minor Transnationalism published in 2005, this essay argues for what might be called “minor transnational studies” in which minority cultures from different geopolitical locations are posited in comparative and transnational frameworks vis-?-vis each other rather than always in relation to majority cultures. The minor-to-minor horizontal relationality is seen as a productive locus of transformative cultural practices that theorizes, historicizes, and performs new forms of culture. Situated among ethnic studies, minority discourse, area studies, postcolonial studies, and those minor transnational studies organized around a particular colonial language (such as Francophone, Hispanophone, Lusophone, and Sinophone studies), this essay makes a principled critique of each of these disciplinary models to better account for the complexity of minority articulation in the contemporary age of transnationalization.
Subjects
強勢/主流和弱勢/少數跨國主義
轉化性實踐
根莖結構
弱勢文學
解構主義
歐洲中心的普遍主義
認可政治
分流
道地性
跨殖民主義
major and minor transnationalism
transformative practice
the rizhome
minor literature
deconstruction
Eurocentric universalism
politics of recognition
branchements
authenticity
transcolonialism
Type
journal article
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