... . doi.org/10.7771/1481-4374.3258 . The South Atlantic Quarterly 119:4, October 2020 doi 10.1215/00382876-8663603 © 2020 Duke University Press Colleen Lye Identity Politics, Criticism, and Self-Criticism More than forty years ago the Combahee River Collective (CRC), a Black lesbian feminist social- ist...

...Andrew DuBois 2004 by Duke University Press 2004 Andrew DuBois Ananomie of Criticism I am come to you as an alien. I am sorry that my...

...Imre Szeman Imre Szeman Who’s Afraid of National Allegory? Jameson, Literary Criticism, Globalization Fredric Jameson’s proposal that all third world...

...Milind Wakankar 2002 by Duke University Press 2002 Milind Wakankar The Moment of Criticism in Indian Nationalist Thought: Ramchandra Shukla and the Poetics of a Hindi Responsibility Why was the moment of criticism in Hindu nationalist...

...Rey Chow Rey Chow The Interruption of Referentiality: Poststructuralism and the Conundrum of Critical Multiculturalism In the increasingly...

...Hortense Spillers This essay looks at the relationship between political movements in the streets and critical theory in the academy. It asks whether today the lack of innovation in critical theory we see in some disciplines occasions, if not reflects, the muting of political dissent outside of the...

...Hal Foster How did critique become a bad object when, only a few decades ago, it seemed to be the cutting edge of cultural practice? This essay notes some of the recent vicissitudes of the critical enterprise, including the charges that it is destructive, cynical, or simply rote. Rather than a...

... feminists and socialist feminists and highlights the extent to which Rubin's opposition to late-1970s radical feminists relies on early radical feminism. Reading Rubin's contribution in this light allows me to show why it is critical to distinguish between sexual oppression and other forms of oppression as...

...Robyn Marasco This article considers The Authoritarian Personality in terms of a consistent argument in early critical theory—that fascism begins in the family. It explores the foundations of this argument in Max Horkheimer’s Studies on Authority and the Family , his first major research project as...

...Fadi A. Bardawil This essay examines three texts that were published in 1950: Aimé Césaire’s Discourse on Colonialism , Adorno et al.’s The Authoritarian Personality , and Octave Mannoni’s Prospero and Caliban: The Psychology of Colonization . I use these texts to examine critical theory’s colonial...

...Sergio Tischler This article establishes a field of dialogue regarding the idea of the revolutionary and rebel subject between the Zapatista movement (EZLN) and critical theory thinkers, particularly Walter Benjamin and Theodor Adorno. It highlights the notions of the antihegemonic subject of...

...Rosi Braidotti What are the parameters that define posthuman knowing subjects and their ethical accountability? This essay outlines a framework by which to understand the emerging field of the critical posthumanities. It proposes as the field's conceptual foundation a neo-Spinozist monistic...

...Tom Cohen; Claire Colebrook The project of critical climate change refuses the exclusive disjunction offered by the Anthropocene. We contest the notion that there is an “anthropos” disclosed by way of its recognition of the destructiveness of the species, while also sustaining a critical conception...

...Sharon P. Holland 2005 by Duke University Press 2005 Sharon P. Holland The Last Word on Racism: New Directions for a Critical Race Theory Dismayingly, institutionalized racism and prejudice endure too, long after the abolition of slavery...

... critical—tainted by the particularity of religious tradition and thus disqualified from the alleged universality of secular reason. On this account, critical thought could be informed only by secular reason. Criticism, in this picture, is bound up with the disenchantment of the world. This confidence in...

...Robert T. Tally, Jr. In Marxist literary criticism—for example, as represented by Fredric Jame-son’s influential study, The Political Unconscious —the interpretation of texts has frequently involved ideology critique, by which the critic attempts to disclose both the ideological content or...

...Pedro Rocha de Oliveira The concept of the aestheticization of reality presented in this essay is an attempt to articulate a number of contemporary cultural and political phenomena and give them critical intelligibility through their mutual interaction. This is undertaken in parallel with a...

... labor of plantation and maquiladora, which are seen as unrelated to the centers of profit. More is involved in this turn than the reappearance of what was once sardonically called “critical criticism.” There are fully economic reasons as well. To what degree, for example, is contemporary theory a labor...

...Eithne Luibhéid “Illegal” status is commonly conceived as stemming from migrants' undesirable characters, yet recent scholarship has shown that “legal” and “illegal” statuses are created through political processes and relations of power that require critical scrutiny. This essay expands the...

... autopbiography constitutes the ruthless, possibly even declamatory, examination of an author's life and work by the author himself. More important, the autopbiography is writing of an imagined dead self by a living self as a means of anticipating, and maybe even liquidating, the criticism of—the criticism that...