Minor Transnationalism

Françoise Lionnet and Shu-mei Shih, eds.

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.

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