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Writing Diaspora in the West: Intimacy, Identity and the New Marginalism
Peter McCarthy
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Description for Writing Diaspora in the West: Intimacy, Identity and the New Marginalism
Hardcover. In this bold intervention into the understanding of the diasporic experience within cultural studies, McCarthy challenges a critical position emergent over the last thirty years (what he calls the 'new marginalism'). He confronts the liberal orthodoxies that prevail in this area, exposing contradictions in the thinking of its major theorists. Num Pages: 208 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; JFC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 167 x 18. Weight in Grams: 384.
In this bold intervention into the understanding of the diasporic experience within cultural studies, McCarthy challenges a critical position emergent over the last thirty years (what he calls the 'new marginalism'). He confronts the liberal orthodoxies that prevail in this area, exposing contradictions in the thinking of its major theorists.
In this bold intervention into the understanding of the diasporic experience within cultural studies, McCarthy challenges a critical position emergent over the last thirty years (what he calls the 'new marginalism'). He confronts the liberal orthodoxies that prevail in this area, exposing contradictions in the thinking of its major theorists.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
Number of Pages
179
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780230218871
SKU
V9780230218871
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About Peter McCarthy
PETER MCCARTHY is Research Fellow at the University of Technology, Sydney, Australia.
Reviews for Writing Diaspora in the West: Intimacy, Identity and the New Marginalism
'Not shying away from controversy, indeed inviting it, Peter McCarthy has written a bold book that deconstructs the assumptions of diaspora studies. He demonstrates that postcolonial and poststructuralist theorists have appropriated and identified with the subject of their study - marginalization. By adopting epistemological privilege for the diasporic experience, they claim explanatory insight into human affairs. The book will both ... Read more