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Subject(s)

• Race relations—Philosophy [Browse]
• Decolonization—Philosophy [Browse]
• Nationalism—Philosophy [Browse]
• Cultural fusion—Latin America [Browse]
• Cultural fusion—Caribbean Area [Browse]
• Cultural fusion—Philosophy [Browse]

Summary note

"Creolizing the Nation develops a new account of how to understand difference, locally and globally. The book analyzes what it means concretely to create emancipatory communities of composite cultures and ways of being"-- Provided by publisher.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Reproduction note

Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.

Source of description

Description based on print version record.

Contents

• Introduction
• Part One. Setting the Stage: Thinking "Nation" through Creolization
• The Phenomenon of the Nation
• The Time and Place of Creolization
• Part Two. Living Ambiguously: Intersections between Creolization and Latina Feminisms
• On Glissant's Creolization
• Subjectivity Otherwise
• Part Three. The Poetics and Politics of "Community" Otherwise
• Difference, Borders, and Community
• The Composite Community in Fanon's Postcolonial Moment
• Conclusion. Creolizing as an Imperative.

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ISBN

• 0810142376
• 9780810142374 ((electronic bk.))

OCLC

1182548181

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