The Worlding Project Doing Cultural Studies in the Era of Globalization

by Leigh Connery, Christopher; Wilson, Rob

• ISBN13: 9781556436802
• ISBN10: 1556436807
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-10-30
• Publisher: North Atlantic Books

Summary

Globalization discourse now presumes that the "world space" is entirely at the mercy of market norms and forms promulgated by reactionary U.S. policies. An academic but accessible set of studies, this wide range of essays by noted scholars challenges this paradigm with diverse and strong arguments. Taking on topics that range from the medieval Mediterranean to contemporary Jamaican music, from Hong Kong martial arts cinema to Taiwanese politics, writers such as David Palumbo-Liu, Meaghan Morris, James Clifford, and others use innovative cultural studies to challenge the globalization narrative with a new and trenchant tactic called "worlding." The book posits that world literature, cultural studies, and disciplinary practices must be "worlded" into expressions from disparate critical angles of vision, multiple frameworks, and field practices as yet emerging or unidentified. This opens up a major rethinking of historical "givens" from Rob Wilson's reinvention of "The White Surfer Dude" to Sharon Kinoshita's "Deprovincializing the Middle Ages." Building on the work of cultural critics like Edward Said, Gayatri Spivak, and Kenneth Burke,The Worlding Projectis an important manifesto that aims to redefine the aesthetics and politics of postcolonial globalization withalternative forms and frames of global becoming.

Author Biography

Rob Wilson has been a professor of transnational and postcolonial literatures at the University of California at Santa Cruz since 2001. The founding editor of the Berkeley Poetry Review, Wilson was educated at the University of California at Berkeley, where he received a doctorate in English in 1976. He has also taught in the English Department at the University of Hawai’i at Manoa and Korea University in Seoul and was a visiting professor of literature at National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan.

Christopher Leigh Connery teaches World Literature and Cultural Studies at UC Santa Cruz, where he also co-directs the Center for Cultural Studies. He has a PhD in East Asian Studies, and has published Empire of the Text: Writing and Authority in Early Imperial China as well as other works about the global 1960s and about oceanic thinking. He recently edited a collection of essays on the Asian Sixties.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. vii
Preface	p. x
Introduction: Worlded Pedagogy in Santa Cruz	p. 1
Indigenous Articulations	p. 13
Learning from Bruce Lee; Pedagogy and Political Correctness in Martial Arts Cinema	p. 39
Deprovincializing the Middle Ages	p. 61
The World Sixties	p. 77
Taiwan as Club 51: On the Culture of US Imperialism	p. 109
"But I Did Not Shoot the Deputy": Dubbing the Yankee Frontier	p. 133
Ridley Scott's Gladiator and the Spectacle of Empire: Global/Local Rumblings Inside the Pax Americana	p. 171
Re-territorializing Asia Pacific: The Post-September 11 Logic of Hegemony	p. 187
White Surfer Dude	p. 205
Afterword: Worlding as Future Tactic	p. 209
Contributors	p. 224
Index	p. 229
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