Otherwise Occupied : Pedagogies of Alterity and the Brahminization of Theory

by Figueira, Dorothy M.

• ISBN13: 9780791475737
• ISBN10: 0791475735
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-11-30
• Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr

Summary

Questions whether current theories and pedagogies of alterity have allowed us to truly engage the Other.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. vii
Introduction	p. 1
Critical Background to Poststructuralist Theories and Pedagogies of Alterity	p. 5
Multiculturalism	p. 15
Simulated Battles	p. 15
The Institutionalization of Multiculturalism	p. 16
The Methodology of Multiculturalism	p. 18
Marketing the Margin	p. 24
Masking the Metanarrative of Race	p. 27
Postcolonial Criticism and Identitarian Politics	p. 31
Definitions and the Scope of Postcolonial Criticism	p. 31
History and Postcolonial Subjectivity	p. 34
The Postcolonial Critic	p. 36
The Repressive Allure of Postcolonial Criticism	p. 43
The Brahminization of Theory: Commodity Fetishism and False Consciousness	p. 49
Introduction	p. 50
Postcolonial Criticism's Disciplinary Roots	p. 53
Commodifying Postcolonial Theory and Type-Casting the Critic	p. 59
False Consciousness	p. 64
Commodity Fetishism and Brahminization	p. 68
The Romance of Exile	p. 71
Introduction	p. 71
Spokespersonship	p. 72
The Exile	p. 74
The Nomad	p. 83
A Wand'ring Minstrel I, A Thing of Shreds and Patches	p. 89
Occidentalism	p. 91
Theory Confronts Reality	p. 91
Rhetoric	p. 94
The Fallaci Affair	p. 101
Final Beliefs	p. 104
Gestures of Inclusion	p. 107
Introduction	p. 107
Positive Discrimination in India	p. 109
Affirmative Action in the United States	p. 113
Cosmetic Enhancement	p. 117
Conclusion: The Collecting of the Other	p. 121
Notes	p. 129
Bibliography	p. 141
Index	p. 159
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