The Creolization of Theory

by Étienne Balibar, Françoise Lionnet, Shu-mei Shih, et al.

Introducing this collection of essays, Fran oise Lionnet and Shu-mei Shih argue that looking back-investigating the historical, intellectual, and political entanglements of contemporary academic disciplines-offers a way for scholars in the humanities to move critical debates forward. They describe how disciplines or methodologies that seem distinct today emerged from overlapping intellectual and political currents in the 1960s and early 1970s, in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822348462
• ISBN13: 9780822348467
• Release Date: May 2011
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.8" x 9.0"