Reconsidering Social Identification: Race, Gender, Class and Caste

by JanMohamed; Abdul R.

• ISBN13: 9780415685672
• ISBN10: 0415685672
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2011-11-29
• Publisher: Routledge India

Summary

This volume investigates how four socially constructed identities (race, gender, class and caste) can be rethought as matrices designed to accumulate various kinds of socio-economic values and to translate and transfer these values from one group to another. Essays in the anthology also attempt to compare the mechanisms deployed by various groups to consolidate identificatory investments. Drawn mainly for the fields of literary and cultural studies, the essays are grouped in four categories. Essays collected under '¬ÜTheoretical Approaches'¬" scrutinize the relative value of various approaches; those collected under '¬ÜConsiderations of Race, Gender, and Sexual Orientation'¬" examine the interaction between these three categories in formation of identities; those grouped under '¬ÜComparative Analysis of African-American and Dalit Writing'¬" provide comparative analyses of the literary productions of these two oppressed groups; and, finally, those under '¬ÜThe Persistence of Racialized Perceptions'¬" focus on the role of ideologically inflected perception of European colonizers and the persistence of such perception in the categorization and treatment of colonial migrants to the metropolis.

Author Biography

Abdul R. JanMohamed is Chancellor's Professor at the Department of English, University of California, Berkeley.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
Theoretical Approaches
African-American Women and the Republics	p. 19
Genre Theory, Catachresis and the Fetish: The Case of Canada	p. 42
Race in the Dialectics of Culture	p. 55
What Lacan and Agamben Can Do for Subjectivity in the Age of Globalization: Additional Perspectives for Hardt's and Negri's Concept of Multitude	p. 80
Considerations of Race, Gender and Sexual Orientation
Transitions in Marginality: From 'Gender' to 'Ethnicity' in Contemporary Aotearoa/New Zealand	p. 113
'There Comes Papa': Sambandham with Specific Reference to the Nayar Community and Its Impact on Kerala Society, c. 1900-2009	p. 136
Buying and Selling Blackness: White-Collar Boxing and Racialized Consumerism	p. 177
Multiple Burdens, Multiple Identities: The Complex Consciousness of the African-American Women's Movement	p. 207
'They can't see us at all': Queering Ontogenetic Liminality through 'Gayze'	p. 227
Deliriously In Between: Transgressing Borders with Gay Best Friendship	p. 260
Comparative Analysis of African-American and Dalit Writing
Contestation of Intra-structural Power Shifts in the Categories of Race and Caste/Class in Maya Angelou and Bama	p. 281
Towards a Theoretical Proposition for the Understanding of Caste and Race: A Pedagogical Perspective	p. 293
Towards Reconstructing Caste, Class and Gender: Kalyana Rao's Antarani Vasantam (Untouchable Spring)	p. 307
The Persistence of Racialized Perceptions
Women's Time? Tum-of-the-20th-Century Travel Writing on Korea	p. 321
Political Conquests and Sexual Metaphors: A Study of Ballantyne's The Coral Island and Kipling's Jungle Books	p. 341
The Political Economy of Asian Immigrant Labour in Canada: Intersections of Race, Gender and Class	p. 361
Class, Gender and Ethnicity in Relation to Health Care: A Study of Social Disparities in Swedish Health Care	p. 376
Bibliography	p. 401
About the Editor	p. 431
Notes on Contributors	p. 432
Index	p. 437
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