Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Now 1 1. Blackness: The Human 17 2. Bare Life: The Flesh 33 3. Assemblages: Articulation 46 4. Racism: Biopolitics 53 5. Law: Property 74 6. Depravation: Pornotropes 89 7. Deprivation: Hunger 113 8. Freedom: Soon 125 Notes 139 Bibliography 181 Index 205

Habeas Viscus: Racializing Assemblages, Biopolitics, and Black Feminist Theories of the Human

This article explores the so-called `postsecular' turn from two different but intersecting angles. The first part of the argument offers a reasoned cartography of the postsecular discourses, both i...

In Spite of the Times: The Postsecular Turn in Feminism

Introduction: Sociolinguistics and Language Education - Nancy H. Hornberger and Sandra Lee McKayLANGUAGE AND IDEOLOGYLanguage and Ideologies - Mary E. McGroartyLanguage, Power and Pedagogies - Hilary JanksNationalism, Identity and Popular Culture - Alastair PennycookLANGUAGE AND SOCIETYEnglish as an International Language - Sandra Lee McKayMultilingualism and Codeswitching in Education - Nkonko M. KamwangamaluLanguage Policy and Planning - Joseph Lo BiancoLANGUAGE AND VARIATIONStyle and Styling - Jurgen JaspersCritical Language Awareness - H. Samy Alim Pidgins and Creoles - Jeff SiegelLANGUAGE AND LITERACYCross-cultural Perspectives on Writing: Contrastive Rhetoric - Ryuko KubotaSociolinguistics, Language Teaching and New Literacy Studies - Brian Street and Constant LeungMultimodal Literacy in Language Classrooms - Viniti Vaish and Phillip A. Towndrow LANGUAGE AND IDENTITYLanguage and Identity - Bonny NortonGender Identities in Language Education - Christina HigginsLanguage and Ethnicity - Angela ReyesLanguage Socialization - Patricia A. DuffLANGUAGE AND INTERACTIONLanguage and Culture - Gabriele Kasper and Makoto OmoriConversation Analysis - Jack Sidnell Classroom Discourse Analysis: A Focus on Communicative Repertoires - Betsy RymesLANGUAGE AND EDUCATIONLanguage and Education: A Limpopo Lens - Nancy H. Hornberger

Sociolinguistics and Language Education

Susan Stanford Friedman is Virginia Woolf Professor of english and Women’s Studies at the University of Wisconsin-madison. She writes extensively on modernism, including such writers as H.d., Woolf, and Joyce. Her recent books include Mappings: Feminism and the Cultural Geographies of Encounter and Analyzing Freud: Letters of H.D., Bryher, and Their Circle. Currently, she is writing on globalization, migration, and diaspora as well as her book in progress, Planetary Modernism and the Modernities of Empire, Nation, and Diaspora. modernism / modernity volume thirteen, number three, pp 425–443. © 2006 the johns hopkins

Periodizing Modernism: Postcolonial Modernities and the Space/Time Borders of Modernist Studies

(2002). Reconstructing Local Knowledge. Journal of Language, Identity & Education: Vol. 1, No. 4, pp. 243-259.

Reconstructing Local Knowledge

In Poetics of Relation, French-Caribbean writer and philosopher Edouard Glissant turns the concrete particulars of Caribbean reality into a complex, energetic vision of a world in transformation. He sees the islands of the Antilles as enduring an "invalid" suffering imposed by history, yet also as a place whose unique interactions will one day produce an emerging global consensus. Arguing that the writer alone can tap the unconscious of a people and apprehend its multiform culture in order to provide forms of memory and intent capable of transcending "nonhistory, " Glissant therefore defines his "poetics of relation" - both aesthetic and political - as a transformative mode of history, capable of enunciating and making concrete a French-Caribbean reality with a self-defined past and future. In Poetics of Relation, we come to see that relation in all its senses - telling, listening, connecting, and the parallel consciousness of self and surroundings - is the key to transforming mentalities and reshaping societies. The issues raised about identity as built in relation and not in isolation are central to current discussions not only of Caribbean creolization but of U.S. multiculturalism as well.

Betsy Wing

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Poetics of relation