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Reconsidering Social Identification<br/>
Race, Gender, Class and Caste
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Contents
Acknowledgements ix
Introduction1
Part I: Theoretical Approaches
1. African-American Women and the Republics 19
2. Genre Theory, Catachresis and the Fetish:
The Case of Canada 42
3. Race in the Dialectics of Culture 55
4. What Lacan and Agamben Can Do for Subjectivity
in the Age of Globalization: Additional Perspectives
for Hardt's and Negri's Concept of Multitude 80
Part II: Considerations of Race, Gender
and Sexual Orientation
5. Transitions in Marginality: From 'Gender' to 'Ethnicity'
in Contemporary Aotearoa/New Zealand 113
6. 'There Comes Papa': Sambandham with Specific
Reference to the Nayar Community and Its Impact
on Kerala Society, c. 1900-2009 136
7. Buying and Selling Blackness: White-Collar
Boxing and Racialized Consumerism 177
8. Multiple Burdens, Multiple Identities:
The Complex Consciousness of the
African-American Women's Movement 207
9. 'They can't see us at all' : Queering Ontogenetic
Liminality through 'Gayze' 227
10. Deliriously In Between: Transgressing Borders
with Gay Best Friendship 260
Part III: Comparative Analysis of African-American
and Dalit Writing
11. Contestation of Intra-structural Power Shifts in the
Categories of Race and Caste/Class in Maya
Angelou and Bama 281
12. Towards a Theoretical Proposition for the
Understanding of Caste and Race:
A Pedagogical Perspective 293
13. Towards Reconstructing Caste, Class and Gender:
Kalyana Rao's Antarani Vasantam
(Untouchable Sprine) 307
Part IV: The Persistence of Racialized Perceptions
14. Women's Time? Turn-of-the-20th-Century
Travel Writing on Korea 321
15. Political Conquests and Sexual Metaphors:
A Study of Ballantyne's The Coral Island and
Kipling's Jungle Books 341
16. The Political Economy of Asian Immigrant
Labour in Canada: Intersections of Race,
Gender and Class 361
17. Class, Gender and Ethnicity in Relation to
Health Care: A Study of Social Disparities
in Swedish Health Care 376
Bibliography 401
About the Editor 431
Notes on Contributors 432
Index 437
Acknowledgements
All the essays collected in this volume were presented at
the Twelfth Annual Conference sponsored by the Forum
on Contemporary Theory. The conference, on ‘The Political
Economy of Social Division: Race, Gender, Class, and Caste as
Fetishized/Fetishizing Borders’, was co-sponsored by Samyukta:
A Journal of Women’s Studies and by the Centre for Women’s
Studies, University of Kerala, and convened in December 2009
in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala.
CMy tohanksn to Ptraefulla Kmar, Direpctor oof ther Foarum ron y
Theory, and G. S. Jayasree, editor of Samyukta and
Chair of the Centre for Women’s Studies at the University of
Kerala, for their hard work and proficiency in organizing a
wonderful and stimulating conference. I thank A. Jayakrishnan,
VMice-Chanceellor, Univmersity of Kebrala, ande the Synrdicatse
of the University, Geetha Gopal, C. Bhaskaran and A. R.
Rajan, for their generous support of the conference. We are also
grateful to Nishat Kazi and Mary Bachaspatimayum without
wchoseo work ant the Fforuem for Cronteempornary Thecory theis
would not have been so successful.
I am also happy to acknowledge the excellent work done by
the team at Routledge (India) for the production of this volume.
Finally, I am most grateful to all the panelists who submitted
their papers for this volume.
