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Introduction: Thinking through the Minor, Transnationally

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Françoise Lionnet
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Minor Transnationalism

Minor Transnationalism

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Françoise Lionnet
Françoise Lionnet

Françoise Lionnet is Chair of French and Francophone Studies and Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author of Postcolonial Representations: Women, Literature, Identity.

Shu-mei Shih is Associate Professor of Asian Languages and Cultures, Comparative Literature, and Asian American Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author of The Lure of the Modern: Writing Modernism in Semicolonial China, 1917–1937.

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Shu-mei Shih
Shu-mei Shih

Françoise Lionnet is Chair of French and Francophone Studies and Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author of Postcolonial Representations: Women, Literature, Identity.

Shu-mei Shih is Associate Professor of Asian Languages and Cultures, Comparative Literature, and Asian American Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author of The Lure of the Modern: Writing Modernism in Semicolonial China, 1917–1937.

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DOI:
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2005
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Works Cited

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Sara
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London
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Routledge
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2
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1984
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Bernard Grasset
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Google Scholar
 
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May
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University of Minnesota Press
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Caren
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Theoretical and Empirical Contributions toward a Research Agenda for Transnationalism
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Transnationalism from Below
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Smith
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 and
Guarnizo
Luis Eduardo
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London
:
Transaction
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1998
.
64
–
100
.
Google Scholar
 
Morrison
,
Toni
.
Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination
.
Cambridge
:
Harvard University Press
,
1992
.
Google Scholar
 
Ong
,
Aihwa
.
Flexible Citizenship: The Cultural Logics of Transnationality
.
Durham
:
Duke University Press
,
1999
.
Google Scholar
 
Suleri
,
Sara
. “
Woman Skin Deep: Feminism and the Postcolonial Condition
.”
Identities
. Ed.
Gates
Henry Louis
Jr. and
Appiah
Anthony
.
Chicago
:
University of Chicago Press
,
1995
.
133
–
146
.
Google Scholar
 
Sassen
,
Saskia
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Spatialities and Temporalities of the Global: Elements for a Theorization
.”
Public Culture
12.1
(
2000
):
215
–
232
.
Google Scholar
Crossref
Search ADS
 
Scott
,
James
.
Domination and the Arts of Resistance: Hidden Transcripts
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New Haven
:
Yale University Press
,
1990
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Google Scholar
 
Scott
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James
.
Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance
.
New Haven
:
Yale University Press
,
1985
.
Google Scholar
 
Spivak
,
Gayatri
, “
Diasporas Old and New: Women in the Transnational World
,”
Textual Practice
10.2
(
1996
):
245
–
269
.
Google Scholar
Crossref
Search ADS
 
Taylor
,
Charles
, and
Gutman
Amy
.
Multiculturalism and “The Politics of Recognition”: An Essay
.
Princeton
:
Princeton University Press
,
1992
.
Google Scholar
 

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