Description: Further DetailsTitle: Subalternity and RepresentationCondition: NewSubtitle: Arguments in Cultural TheoryISBN-10: 0822324164EAN: 9780822324164ISBN: 9780822324164Publisher: Duke University PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 12/22/1999Description: The term “subalternity” refers to a condition of subordination brought about by colonization or other forms of economic, social, racial, linguistic, and/or cultural dominance. Subaltern studies is, therefore, a study of power. Who has it and who does not. Who is gaining it and who is losing it. Power is intimately related to questions of representation—to which representations have cognitive authority and can secure hegemony and which do not and cannot. In this book John Beverley examines the relationship between subalternity and representation by analyzing the ways in which that relationship has been played out in the domain of Latin American studies. Dismissed by some as simply another new fashion in the critique of culture and by others as a postmarxist heresy, subaltern studies began with the work of Ranajit Guha and the South Asian Subaltern Studies collective in the 1980s. Beverley’s focus on Latin America, however, is evidence of the growing province of this field. In assessing subaltern studies’ purposes and methods, the potential dangers it presents, and its interactions with deconstruction, poststructuralism, cultural studies, Marxism, and political theory, Beverley builds his discussion around a single, provocative question: How can academic knowledge seek to represent the subaltern when that knowledge is itself implicated in the practices that construct the subaltern as such? In his search for answers, he grapples with a number of issues, notably the 1998 debate between David Stoll and Rigoberta Menchú over her award-winning testimonial narrative, I, Rigoberta Menchú. Other topics explored include the concept of civil society, Florencia Mallon’s influential Peasant and Nation, the relationship between the Latin American “lettered city” and the Túpac Amaru rebellion of 1780–1783, the ideas of transculturation and hybridity in postcolonial studies and Latin American cultural studies, multiculturalism, and the relationship between populism, popular culture, and the “national-popular” in conditions of globalization. This critique and defense of subaltern studies offers a compendium of insights into a new form of knowledge and knowledge production. It will interest those studying postcolonialism, political science, cultural studies, and Latin American culture, history, and literature.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 235mmItem Length: 149mmItem Weight: 381gAuthor: John BeverleyGenre: HistoryBook Series: Post-Contemporary InterventionsRelease Year: 1999 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Subalternity and Representation
Title: Subalternity and Representation
Subtitle: Arguments in Cultural Theory
ISBN-10: 0822324164
EAN: 9780822324164
ISBN: 9780822324164
Release Date: 12/22/1999
Release Year: 1999
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: History
Number of Pages: 224 Pages
Publication Name: Subalternity and Representation : Arguments in Cultural Theory
Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication Year: 1999
Subject: Minority Studies, Epistemology, Sociology / General, General, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, World / Caribbean & Latin American, Colonialism & Post-Colonialism
Item Height: 0.6 in
Item Weight: 13.5 Oz
Type: Textbook
Subject Area: Political Science, Philosophy, Social Science, Education
Item Length: 9.2 in
Author: John. Beverley
Item Width: 5.9 in
Series: Post-Contemporary Interventions Ser.
Format: Trade Paperback
