Theory in an Uneven World - Hardcover

Radhakrishnan, R.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0631175377 ISBN 13: 9780631175377

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, 2003

Synopsis

This major intervention into debates about the postcolonial and the global proposes that theory should embody unevenness as symptom even as it envisions strategies to get beyond unevenness.

Radhakrishnan's thought-provoking engagement with theorists and writers from around the world will fascinate readers across a wide range of disciplines.

• A major intervention into debates about the postcolonial and the global.
• Proposes that theory bear the burden of unevenness even as it seeks a way out of it - neither captive to the world as it is, nor naively credulous of visions of the world as it should be, theory argues for an ethics of persuasion that is firmly rooted in political resistance.
• Engages with a wide range of theorists and writers from around the world.
• Ranges over fields as diverse as critical theory, postmodernism, poststructuralism, postcolonialism, minority studies, cultural studies and anthropology.

About this title

About the Author

R. Radhakrishnan is Professor of English at the University of California, Irvine. He is the author of Diasporic Mediations: Between Home and Location (University of Minnesota Press, 1996). His articles and essays have appeared in a wide range of scholarly journals and in collections such as Nationalisms and Sexualities (Ed. Parker, Russo, Sommer and Yaeger, Routledge, 1992), The Nature and Context of Minority Discourse (ed. Mohamed and Lloyd, OUP, 1991), Orientations: Mapping Studies in the Asian Diaspora (ed. Chuh and Shimakawa, Duke University Press, 2001) and Identities: Race, Class, Gender, Nationality (Ed. Alcoff and Mendieta, Blackwell 2003).

From the Back Cover

How can we handle the unevenness between the West and the Rest? How inevitable is the binary logic of winners and losers? How can theory help us resolve our ethical and political problems? Can theory help us think beyond the “winner talks all” model by articulating strong connections between ethics and politics?

This major intervention into debates about the postcolonial and the global proposes that theory should embody unevenness. Radhakrishnan’s thought-provoking engagement with theorists and writers from around the world will fascinate readers across a wide range of disciplines.

This major intervention into debates about the postcolonial and the global proposes that theory should embody unevenness. Radhakrishnan’s thought-provoking engagement with theorists and writers from around the world will fascinate readers across a wide range of disciplines.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0631175377
• ISBN 13: 9780631175377
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 236