WRITING DIASPORA IN THE WEST by Peter McCarthy ( 9780230233843 )

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WRITING DIASPORA IN THE WEST
INTIMACY, IDENTITY AND THE NEW MARGINALISM

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ISBN 10:

0230233848

ISBN 13:

9780230233843

Publisher:

PALGRAVE MACMILLAN

Pub. date:

17 February, 2009

Description:

In this bold intervention into the understanding of the diasporic experience within cultural studies, McCarthy challenges a critical position emergent over the last thirty years (what he calls the 'new marginalism'). He confronts the liberal orthodoxies that prevail in this area, exposing contradictions in the thinking of its major theorists.

Synopsis:

In Writing Diaspora in the West, Peter McCarthy argues that the surveyors and theoreticians of modern human subjectivity have discovered in the margins a motherland, nourishing and nurturing them in the fantastic culture of what he terms the 'new marginalism'. This culture, McCarthy argues, is the product of a certain fantasy, the projection of a subjective homeland onto the various margins of discourse, subjectivity, history and geography that goes beyond a Left minoritarian ethos. This fantasy leads to a certain marginal affectivity, a fascination and identification with things perceived at the margins or bounds of a psychopathological homeland, especially with those who live or subsist there. McCarthy's work stands as a challenge to liberal critical orthodoxies concerning the representation of marginal experience.

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Palgrave Macmillan

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