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Race in Translation : Culture Wars around the Postcolonial Atlantic /

While the term "culture wars" often designates the heated arguments in the English-speaking world spiralling around race, the canon, and affirmative action, in fact these discussions have raged in multiple sites and languages. Charting the multidirectional traffic of the debates, Stam/Shoh...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Stam, Robert, 1941- (Author), Shohat, Ella, 1959- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : New York University Press, 2012.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The Atlantic enlightenment
  • A tale of three republics
  • The seismic shift and the decolonization of knowledge
  • Identity politics and the right / left convergence
  • France, the United States, and the culture wars
  • Brazil, the United States, and the culture wars
  • From affirmative action to interrogating whiteness
  • French intellectuals and the postcolonial
  • The transnational traffic of ideas.