Race in Translation

Culture Wars around the Postcolonial Atlantic

Bibliographic Data

ID20008792
AuthorsElla Shohat, Robert Stam
Year2016
Pages383
Publication date2016-04-19
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
Reviewed byRace in translation: Culture wars around the postcolonial Atlantic, Zach Sell, 2013
VenueRace in translation (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherNew York University Press (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.18574/nyu/9780814798379.001.0001
OpenAlexW2285101736
Open LibraryOL25140147M
ISBN9780814798379
LanguageEN
Citations received67

While the term “culture wars” often designates the heated arguments in the English-speaking world spiraling around race, the canon, and affirmative action, in fact these discussions have raged in diverse sites and languages. Race in Translation charts the transatlantic traffic of the debates within and between three zones—the U.S., France, and Brazil. Stam and Shohat trace the literal and figurative translation of these multidirectional intellectual debates, seen most recently in the emergence of postcolonial studies in France, and whiteness studies in Brazil. The authors also interrogate an ironic convergence whereby rightist politicians like Sarkozy and Cameron join hands with some leftist intellectuals like Benn Michaels, Žižek, and Bourdieu in condemning “multiculturalism” and “identity politics.” At once a report from various “fronts” in the culture wars, a mapping of the germane literatures, and an argument about methods of reading the cross-border movement of ideas, the book constitutes a major contribution to our understanding of the Diasporic and the Transnational

Aesthetics · Argument (complex analysis) · Art · Identity (music) · Multiculturalism · Political science · Politics · Race (biology) · Reading (process) · Sociology · Gender Studies · Law · Political theory and Gramsci · Atlantic ocean · Atlantic Ocean Region · Culture · Ethnicity · Multicultural issues · Postcolonialism · Race

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