Journal•ISSN: 0190-3659
boundary 2
Duke University Press
About: boundary 2 is an academic journal published by Duke University Press. The journal publishes majorly in the area(s): Politics & Poetry. It has an ISSN identifier of 0190-3659. Over the lifetime, 1326 publications have been published receiving 14658 citations. The journal is also known as: Boundary two.
Topics: Politics, Poetry, Criticism, Poetics, Literary criticism
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TL;DR: In this paper, the Third World Woman is presented as a singular monolithic subject in some recent (western) feminist texts, focusing on a certain mode of appropriation and codification of "scholarship" and knowledge about women in the third world by particular analytic categories employed in writings on the subject which take as their primary point of reference feminist interests as they have been articulated in the US and western Europe.
Abstract: It ought to be of some political significance at least that the term 'colonization' has come to denote a variety of phenomena in recent feminist and left writings in general. From its analytic value as a category of exploitative economic exchange in both traditional and contemporary Marxisms (cf. particularly such contemporary scholars as Baran, Amin and Gunder-Frank) to its use by feminist women of colour in the US, to describe the appropriation of their experiences and struggles by hegemonic white women's movements,' the term 'colonization' has been used to characterize everything from the most evident economic and political hierarchies to the production of a particular cultural discourse about what is called the 'Third World.'2 However sophisticated or problematical its use as an explanatory construct, colonization almost invariably implies a relation of structural domination, and a discursive or political suppression of the heterogeneity of the subject(s) in question. What I wish to analyse here specifically is the production of the 'Third World Woman' as a singular monolithic subject in some recent (western) feminist texts. The definition of colonization I invoke is a predominantly discursive one, focusing on a certain mode of appropriation and codification of 'scholarship' and 'knowledge' about women in the third world by particular analytic categories employed in writings on the subject which take as their primary point of reference feminist interests as they have been articulated in the US and western Europe. My concern about such writings derives from my own implication and investment in contemporary debates in feminist theory, and the urgent political necessity of forming strategic coalitions across class, race and national boundaries. Clearly, western feminist discourse and political practice is neither singular nor homogeneous in its goals, interests or analyses. However, it is possible to trace a coherence of
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TL;DR: This article argued that modernity is not an essentially or exclusively European phenomenon, but constituted in a dialectical relation with a non-European alterity that is its ultimate content, and argued that it is not a European phenomenon but a global phenomenon.
Abstract: Modernity is, for many (for Jurgen Habermas or Charles Taylor, for example), an essentially or exclusively European phenomenon. In these lectures, I will argue that modernity is, in fact, a European phenomenon, but one constituted in a dialectical relation with a non-European alterity that is its ultimate content. Modernity appears when Europe affirms itself as the "center" of a World History that it inaugurates; the "periphery" that surrounds this center is consequently part of its self-definition. The occlusion of this periphery (and of the role of Spain and Portugal in the formation of the modern world system from the late fifteenth to the mid-seventeenth centuries) leads the major contemporary thinkers of the "center" into a Eurocentric fallacy in their understanding of modernity. If their understanding of the genealogy of modernity is thus partial and provincial, their attempts at a critique or defense of it are likewise unilateral and, in part, false.
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TL;DR: The World's Only Klan Museum as discussed by the authors was built by John Howard in the old Echo Theater, which is located just a stone's throw, as they say, from the county courthouse in the center of town.
Abstract: Let me begin with the story of two museums. In Laurens, South Carolina, John Howard has built one in the old Echo Theater, which is located just a stone's throw, as they say, from the county courthouse in the center of town. The marquee blares, "The World's Only Klan Museum." Inside, there are robes, books, Confederate flags, pocket knives, "White Power" sweatshirts, even T-shirts declaring "It's a White Thing. You Wouldn't Understand." When the local authorities denied Howard a business license to sell souvenirs in the Redneck Shop, he threatened to take his case to court. Suzanne Coe, lawyer for Shannon Faulkner of the Citadel controversy, became his legal counsel; like that earlier case, she said this one, too, was about civil rights.1
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TL;DR: Hall as mentioned in this paper argued that the rise of the Thatcher-Reagan Right was a symptom rather than a cause of the failure of the Left to apprehend the character of the age and to develop a political critique and a moral-political vision appropriate to this character.
Abstract: ist or academic Left nor to the clever rhetoric or funding schemes of the Right. Rather, he has charged, this ascendancy is consequent to the Left's own failure to apprehend the character of the age and to develop a political critique and a moral-political vision appropriate to this character. For Hall, the rise of the Thatcher-Reagan Right was a symptom rather than a cause of this failure, just as the Left's dismissive or suspicious attitude toward
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