Ethics After Idealism: Theory--Culture--Ethnicity--Reading

ISBN-13: 9780253211552 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 264 str.

Rey Chow

Opis

"Methodologically situated in the contentious spaces between critical theory and cultural studies, and always attending to the implications of ethnicity, this book constitutes a unique intervention in contemporary cultural politics." --Social SemioticsAt a time when cultural identity has become intrinsic to the way we read our many "others," Rey Chow argues that what demands to be examined critically is no longer identity politics per se but the idealism--especially in the sense of idealizing otherness--that lies at the heart of identity politics. She discusses multiple cultural forms--fiction, film, popular music, poetry, and essays--and a range of cultural topics--pedagogy, multiculturalism, fascism, sexuality, miscegenation, fantasy, nostalgia, and postcoloniality.

From theorists Slavoj Zizek and Gayatri Spivak to Frantz Fannon, from songwriter Luo Dayou to poet Leung Ping-Kwan, and from the film "M. Butterfly" to the films The Joy Luck Club, To Live, and Rouge, Rey Chow discusses a collection of source materials whose affinities are as surprising as their appearances are diverse.