Minor Transnationalism

Françoise Lionnet is Chair of French and Francophone Studies and Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author of Postcolonial Representations: Women, Literature, Identity.

This collection of essays investigates the importance of "minor discourses" and minority cultures across national boundaries.

Introduction: Thinking through the Minor, Transnationally / Françoise Lionnet and Shu-Mei Shih 1I. TheorizingInclusions: Psychoanalysis, Transnationalism, and Minority Cultures / Suzanne Gearhart 27Rational and Irrational Choices: Form, Affect and Ethics / David Palumbo-Liu 41Toward an Ethics of Transnational Encounters, or, "When" does a "Chinese" Woman Become a "Feminist"? / Shu-Mei Shih 73The Postmodern Subaltern: Globalization Theory and the Subject of Ethnic, Area and Postcolonial Studies / Susan Koshy 109II. HistoricizingMurder in Montmartre: Race, Sex, and Crime in Jazz Age Paris / Tyler Stovall 135Giving "Minor" Pasts a Future: Narrating History in Transnational Cinematic Autobiography / Kathleen McHugh 155Major and Minor Discourses of the Vernacular: Discrepant African Histories / Moradewun Adejunmobi 179III. Reading, Writing, PerformingTranscolonial Translations: Shakespeare in Mauritius / Françoise Lionnet 201Postcolonial Theory and the Predicament of "Minor Literature" / Ali Behdad 223The Calm Beauty of Japan at Almost the Speed of Sound: Sakamoto Kyu and the Translations of Rockabilly / Michael K. Bourdaghs 237IV. SpatializingCartographies of Globalization, Technologies of Gendered Subjectivities: The Dub Poetry of Jean "Binta" Breeze / Jenny Sharpe 261The Double Logic of Minor Spaces / Seiji M. Lippit 283National Space as Minor Space: Afro-Brazilian Culture and the Pelourinho / Elizabeth A. Marchant 301Alternate Geographies and the Melancholy of Mestizaje / Rafael Perez-Torres 317Contributors 339Index 343