ABSTRACT
Trajectories brings together cultural theorists not only from countries with a known historical critical tradition such as America, Canada and Australia but from the East-Asia locations of Hong Kong, Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, Philippines, India and Thailand. It constitutes a critical confrontation between the imperial and colonial co-ordinates of north and south, east and west. Without rejecting the Anglo-American practices of cultural studies, the contributors present critical cultural studies as an internationalist and decolonized project. Trajectories links critical energies together and charts future directions of the discipline. The contributors discuss subjects such as Japanese colonial discourse, cultural studies out of Europe, Chinese nationalism in the context of global capitalism, white panic, stories from East Timor, queer life in Taiwan and new social movements in Korea. The book ends with an interview with Stuart Hall.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|87 pages
Refiguring the Colonial
chapter 3|20 pages
Yellow Skin, White Masks
chapter 6|20 pages
A Colonized Empire
part II|119 pages
Inside/Outside the Nation/State
chapter 8|30 pages
Despotic Empire/Nation-State
chapter 11|10 pages
Representing the Voices of the Silenced
chapter 13|17 pages
African-American Cultural Studies
part III|88 pages
Renegotiating Movements