The Creolization of Theory

Francoise Lionnet is Professor of French and Francophone Studies, Comparative Literature, and Women's Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles.Shu-mei Shih is Professor of Comparative Literature, Asian Languages and Cultures, and Asian American Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. Lionnet and Shih are co-directors of the "Cultures in Transnational Perspective" Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship Program in the Humanities at UCLA and co-editors of "Minor Transnationalism," also published by Duke University Press.

Françoise Lionnet is Professor of French and Francophone Studies, Comparative Literature, and Women’s Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Acknowledgments viiIntroduction: The Creolization of Theory / Shu-mei Shih and Françoise Lionnet 1Part 1. Creolizing Methodologies1. Symptomatically Black: A Creolization of the Political / Barnor Hesse 372. Postslavery and Postcolonial Representations: Comparative Approaches / Anne Donadey 623. Crises of Money / Pheng Cheah 834. Material Histories of Transcolonial Loss: Creolizing Psychoanalytic Theories of Melancholia? / Liz Constable 1125. From Multicultural to Creole Subjects: David Henry Hwang's Collaborative Works with Philip Glass / Ping-hui Liao 142Part 2. Epistemological Locations6. I Am Where I Think: Remapping the Order of Knowing / Walter Mignolo 1597. Taiwan in Modernity/Coloniality: Orphan of Asia and the Colonial Difference / Leo Ching 1938. Toward a Diasporic Citizen? From Internationalism to Cosmopolitics / Etienne Balibar 2079. "The Forces of Creolization": Colorblindness and Visible Minorities in the New Europe / Fatima El-Tayeb 226Part 3. AppendixA. Europe and the Antilles: An Interview with Edouard Glissant / Andrea Schwieger Hiepko (Translated by Julin Everett) 255B. Creolization: Definition and Critique / Dominique Chancé (Translated by Julin Everett) 262References 269Contributors 293Index 297