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... to new Arabic terms like uncertainties , double critique , displacement , multiple modernity , and different perspectives . His approach to texts was also unconventional. He believed that all texts are informed by the identity of the person positing the theory and by the values of the culture...

... critique of imperialism and nationalism should be informed by a critical epistemology that integrates class, capital, and other social relations with ideologies and practices of power. A feminist historical materialism is used that avoids the either-or binary of material, social relations versus culture...

... to challenge the entrapments of contemporary violence but also to do so in a self-reflexively anti-redemptory fashion. They conceptualize narrative violence as a modality of cultural and literary analysis, practice and critique; understand violence as a historically situated phenomenon in constant need...

...Olakunle George George's essay responds to Siba Grovogui's book Beyond Eurocentrism and Anarchy . It discusses some implications deriving from Grovogui's critique of international relations discourse from the vantage point of postcolonial literary and cultural criticism. It also explores...

...Amy Mills Turkey emerged from the ruins of the multiethnic Ottoman Empire to become a secular, ethnically Turkish, and culturally Sunni Muslim nation. While the Ottoman legacy refers to an ideal of multiethnic tolerance located in the distant past, and is deployed as a critique against a presumably...

..., I examine new experiences of negotiating social status and cultural codes in multiple locales. New sites of leisure allow some middle- and lower middle-class Jordanians to insert themselves into Jordan's (relatively) new cosmopolitan leisure economy—physically and sometimes also economically—in ways...

... and offering a close reading of Hints for Self-Culture , Elam argues that the writer offers an insurgent political theory of utopia heralded under the sign of anticolonial critique. In the case of Hints for Self-Culture , this takes the form of a radical self-making process toward the creation of a future...

... of Iraqi nationalism and, concurrently, to reconstruct the richness of the Iraqi cultural field. I focus on two intellectuals, Mahmud Ahmad al-Sayyid (1904-37) and Dhu Nun Ayyub (1908-84), two socialists whose novels critique the state and its elites. I argue that, despite the prominence of Pan-Arabism...

... elaboration with cosmopolises of the ' ajam world. I argue that Pollock's analysis of culture and power in premodernity lays the groundwork for a philosophical critique of modern forms of government, the outlines of which are traced in part 3. Premodernity is conceptually necessary to critical...

... a structuralist dismissal of issues of agency and culture. Go down-plays the role of the internal politics of metropolitan societies in shaping imperialism, Hyslop argues, and sees colonial societies as more united in their resistance to imperialism than they were in reality. Hyslop’s critique of Go draws...

...Mithi Mukherjee In her response to Julian Go’s book Patterns of Empire , Mukherjee contends that the harder Go seeks to critique American exceptionalism, the more he has to insist on the liberal nature of the British Empire in India. By “liberal British rule,” Mukherjee writes, Go refers to certain...

...Mahmood Mamdani Mamdani introduces this Kitabkhana on Siba Grovogui's book Beyond Eurocentrism and Anarchy , which is presented for a broader discussion on the tenth anniversary of its publication. Grovogui presents a theoretical critique of IR theory, underlined by the assumption that contrasts...

... University Press , 2004 . Maira Sunaina . Jil Oslo: Palestinian Hip Hop, Youth Culture, and the Youth Movement . Washington, DC : Tadween , 2013 . Marx Karl . “ (Abstract from) The Introduction to Contribution to the Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right ” ( 1844...

...,” 116 . 5. See Lorde, “The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House.” References Christian Barbara . “ The Race for Theory .” Cultural Critique 6 ( 1987 ): 51 – 63 . Gaudio Rudolf . Allah Made Us: Sexual Outlaws in an Islamic African City . Chichester...

... Critique, PMLA, Modern Fiction Studies, Novel, (Mazda, 2001). and Romanic Review. Her book manuscript, At God's Funeral: Lamentation and the Culture of Modernity, is under review. Benjamin C. Fortna is a graduate...

... .” Culture, Theory, and Critique 51 , no. 3 ( 2010 ): 223 – 38 . Livingston Julie Puar Jasbir K. . “ Interspecies .” Social Text 29 ( 2011 ): 3 – 14 . Mallavarapu Srikanth Prasad Amit . “ Facts, Fetishes, and the Parliament of Things: Is There Any Space for Critique...

... positions: east asia cultures critique. Elizabeth Wolde Giorgis is director of the Institute of Ethiopian Studies at Addis Ababa University and a Katerina Clark is a professor in the Department of contributing editor of CSSAAME. Slavic Languages...

... to Psychoanalysis .” Cultural Critique , no. 28 ( 1994 ): 175 – 218 . Spillers Hortense J . “ ‘All the Things You Could Be by Now if Sigmund Freud's Wife Was Your Mother’: Psychoanalysis and Race .” Critical Inquiry 22 , no. 4 ( 1996 ): 710 – 34 . Torok Maria . “ Story of Fear...

... out, that the women’s narratives of cultural studies, political and economic movement arose in the 1970s. The editors trace the histories, critiques of colonial/nationalist historiog- various political movements that tried to diffuse the raphies which intersect in the interpretation of pa...

... not engaged in any kind of constructive and ian terms. As Uyangoda points out our nativist intellectuals on-going cultural critique. Indeed, if the kind of situation are Seemingly incapable of thinking of a modem democratic described above obtains, such a critique would be impossi- polity in innovative...