By Robert Stam,Ella Shohat
ISBN-10: 0814798373
ISBN-13: 9780814798379
ISBN-10: 0814798381
ISBN-13: 9780814798386
While the time period "culture wars" usually designates the heated arguments within the English-speaking global spiralling round race, the canon, and affirmative motion, in reality those discussions have raged in a number of websites and languages. Charting the multidirectional site visitors of the debates, Stam/Shohat hint their literal and figurative translation, obvious in French Postcolonial stories and Brazilian Whiteness stories, and in such cultural phenomena as Tropicalia and Hip-Hop. The authors additionally interrogate an ironic convergence wherein rightist politicians subscribe to fingers with leftist intellectuals, in addition to the Neo-Cons and Nouveaux Philosophes, in condemning the "spectre" of multiculturalism and identification politics. without delay a record from a number of "fronts," a mapping of the germane literatures, and a controversy approximately cross-border comparability and interlocution, the booklet constitutes a tremendous contribution to our realizing of the diasporic and transnational stream of principles.
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