Introduction by Dominick LaCapra 1.The Master's Pieces: On Canon Formation and Afro-American Tradition by Henry Louis Gates Jr. 2. Moving On Down the Line: Variations on the African-American Sermon by Hortense J. Spillers 3. Appropriating the Idioms of Science: The Rejection of Scientific Racism by Nancy Leys Stepan and Sander L. Gilman 4. The Color of Politics in the United States: White Supremacy as the Main Explanation for the Peculiarities of American Politics from Colonial Times to the Present by Michael Goldfield 5. Out of Africa: Topologies of Nativism by Kwame Anthony Appiah 6. Autoethnography: The An-archic Style of Dust Tracks on a Road by Francoise Lionnet 7. "The Very House of Difference": Race, Gender, and the Politics of South African Women's Narrative in Poppie Nongena by Anne McClintock 8. Beyond the Limit: The Social Relations of Madness in Southern African Fiction by Stephen Clingman 9. The Subversive Poetics of Radical Bilingualism: Postcolonial Francophone North African Literature by Samia Mehrez 10. Literary Whiteness and the Afro-Hispanic Difference by Jose Piedra 11. Drawing the Color Line: Kipling and the Culture of Colonial Rule by Satya P. Mohanty Notes on Contributors Index
Dominick LaCapra is Professor Emeritus of History atCornell University. He is the author of many books, includingHistory, Literature, Critical Theory;History and Its Limits: Human, Animal, Violence; andHistory in Transit: Experience, Identity, Critical Theory, all from Cornell.
"At a time when any number of works devoted to the topics of race and the colonial are in circulation, a collection of essays-particularly one edited by Dominick LaCapra-is a welcome addition to the corpus. The volume serves to refine, extend, expand, and clarify current lines of discourse. All of the essays possess an energy and originality that makes them individually useful."-Houston A. Baker Jr., Vanderbilt University
"At a time when any number of works devoted to the topics of race and the colonial are in circulation, a collection of essays-particularly one edited by Dominick LaCapra-is a welcome addition to the corpus. The volume serves to refine, extend, expand, and clarify current lines of discourse. All of the essays possess an energy and originality that makes them individually useful."-Houston A. Baker Jr., Vanderbilt University
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