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F-TOPICS AMER CULTURE (ACS.7820-5001.LEC.72992.P.GC) “Post-Marxism  and its Discontents/The End of Postmodernism?” Class Presentation Oct. 19th 2011. Babacar Faye   Paul Gilroy  “Fanon and Amery: Theory, Torture and the Prospect of Humanism” Theory, Culture & Society 2010 (SAGE, Los Angeles, London, … Continue reading →

Angelaki Journal of Theoretical Humanities, Vol 6, n. 1, April 2002, pp: 21-33 In this article, Brian Carr discusses subalternity from a philosophical perspective in that he compares Althusser’s notion of “interpellation” of the subject with Jacques Lacan’s psycholoanalysis of … Continue reading →

Chapter 3: “Formalities of Consumption and Citizenship in the Age of Cultural Hybridity”, pp: 102-139 In this book, Gareth Williams theorizes the ongoing process of modernization of Latin America, “a passage from national to postnational cultural and political paradigms,” through … Continue reading →

The discussions we have had so far in class have increased the theoretical framework of my research interests in general. Subaltern studies is a key tool to understand the sometimes intricate relationships of different bodies in a multicultural society, intricacies … Continue reading →

Affective Communities: Anti-colonial thought Leela Ghandi (2006), chapter5 : “God: Mysticism and Radicalism at the End of the Nineteenth Century”, pp: 115-141 Leela Ghandi’s Affective Communities is one of the many academic works that embody a new and more productive way … Continue reading →

Sara Ahmed has laid out an interesting framework of Affect Theory related to the notion of happiness and its affective values. In The Affect Theory Reader, edited by Melissa Gregg and Gregory J. Seigworth (2010),  she has considered the notion … Continue reading →

Logics of Empowerment: Development, Gender, and Governance in Neolibreal India, Aradhana Sharma, Chapter 6: “Between Women? The Micropolitics of Community and Collectivism”, pp: 150-182 In the introduction of the book, A. Sharma begins with the politics of empowerment and the notion … Continue reading →

Habitations of Modernity: Essays in the Wake of Subaltern Studies. Chapter 3: “Modernity and the Past: A Critical Tribute to Ashi Nandi”, pp 38-47 This chapter deals with Chakrabarty’s critical analysis of Ashis Nandy’s writngs about Subalternity, and especially the … Continue reading →

Subalternity and Representation: Arguments in Cultural Theory John Beverly, Duke University Press, 1999, chap. 1 “Writing in Reverse: The Subaltern and the Limits of Academic Knowledge” pp 26-40 This chapter begins with the story of Jacques Lacan and Petit Jean … Continue reading →

Antonio Gramsci’s notion of hegemony has had a great impact on the developmental character of Cultural Studies in general and of Subaltern Studies in particular. Hegemony, which refers to social power relationship, hints, as Thomas R. Bates has pointed, to … Continue reading →