The Creolization of Theory

Françoise Lionnet and Shu-mei Shih, eds.

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