Papers by Abdul R JanMohamed
Routledge eBooks, 2011
Acknowledgements. Introduction: 'The Political Economy of Social Division: Race, Gender, Clas... more Acknowledgements. Introduction: 'The Political Economy of Social Division: Race, Gender, Class and Caste as Fetishized/Fetishizing Borders Abdul R. JanMohamed Part I. Theoretical Approaches 1. African-American Women and the Republics H. Spillers 2. Genre Theory, Catachresis, and the Fetish: The Case of Canada Douglass Kneale 3. Race in the Dialectics of Culture Lewis Gordon 4. What Lacan and Agamben can do for Subjectivity in the Age of Globalization: Additional Perspectives for the Concept of Hardt's and Negri's Multitude Myoung Ah Shin Part II: Considerations of Race, Gender, Sexual Orientation 5. Transitions in Marginality: From 'Gender' to 'Ethnicity' in Contemporary Aotearoa/New Zealand Rachael Simon Kumar 6. There Comes Papa: Sambandham with Specific Reference to the Nayar Community and its Impact on Kerala Society c. 1900--2009 A. Raghu 7. Buying and Selling Blackness: White-Collar Boxing and Racialized Consumerism Lucia Trimbur 8. Multiple Burdens, Multiple Identities: The Complex Consciousness of African-American Women's Movement T. Sarada 9. 'They Can't See Us at All': Queering Ontogenetic Liminality through 'Gayze' Mashrur Houssain 10. Deliciously in Between: Transgressing Borders with Gay Best Friendship Kathryn Hummel Part III. Comparative Analysis of African-American and Dalit Writing 11. Contestation of Intra-Structural Power Shifts in the Categories of Race and Caste/Class in Maya Angelou and Bama Laura Delano 12. Towards a Theoretical Proposition for the Understanding of Caste and Race: A Pedagogical Perspective Alladi Uma 13. Towards Reconstructing Caste, Class and Gender: Kalyana Rao's Antarani Vasantam (Untouchable Spring) M. Sridhar Part IV. The Persistence of Racialized Perceptions 14. Women's Time? Turn of the 20th Century Travel Writing on Korea Kim Young-hee 15. Political Conquests and Sexual Metaphors Marie Fernandes 16. The Political Economy of Asian Immigrant Labour in Canada: Intersections of Race, Gender, and Class Habiba Zaman 17. Class, Gender and Ethnicity in Relation to Health Care -- A Study on Social Disparities in the Swedish Healthcare Shrarah Akhvan
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Duke University Press eBooks, 2005
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Oxford University Press eBooks, Aug 1, 2019
Abdul R. JanMohamed approaches the 2016 suicide of Dalit scholar and leader Rohit Vemula in India... more Abdul R. JanMohamed approaches the 2016 suicide of Dalit scholar and leader Rohit Vemula in India through a viewpoint informed by the phenomenology of the ‘touch,’ as elaborated by Edmund Husserl, Jacques Derrida and by JanMohamed’s own work on the political economy of death in the formation of slavery. JanMohamed analyzes Vemula’s suicide note in the context of untouchability as akin to slavery, noting Vemula’s targeting by Hindutva affiliates and university and government leaders. The article discusses the crucial role of touching in a mythical scene of ‘anthropogenesis’, of the birth of the human as a self-conscious species, and argues that Vemula’s suicide constitutes a liberating embrace of his own political ontology, transforming his ‘social death’ into a ‘symbolic death’ that resonated throughout society, in effect endowing him with a form of immortality.
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Cultural Critique, 1987
... 12 Abdul R. JanMohamed and David Lloyd ... We would like to thank the following organizations... more ... 12 Abdul R. JanMohamed and David Lloyd ... We would like to thank the following organizations and in-dividuals for their financial and moral support: the Dean of the Gradu-ate Division, the Dean of Humanities, the Departments of English and Afro-American Studies, and UC ...
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boundary 2, 1984
Critique de la serie d'essais " Black American Literature and Humanism " (P. E. Mor... more Critique de la serie d'essais " Black American Literature and Humanism " (P. E. More, I. Babbitt, et al.), denonciation du discours hegemonique du nouvel humanisme face a la litterature du Tiers Monde| pour la celebration d'une litterature mineure (G. Deleuze)
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Ariel-a Review of International English Literature, Oct 1, 1984
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American Literature, Mar 1, 1992
This volume of essays on the new field of "minority discourse" marks a significant depa... more This volume of essays on the new field of "minority discourse" marks a significant departure from traditional criticism. While the institutions of Western humanism have often treated minority cultures as supplements, this book emphasizes work that is theoretically centered in the political experiences of minority cultures themselves. Bringing together the writings of an international group of scholars, this collection creates a new paradigm for critical cultural studies, one that accounts for both the similarities and differences in the experiences of minority and Third World cultures. The Nature and Context of Minority Discourse provides a theoretical basis for the movement away from an isolating emphasis on cultural differences toward a shared sense of community.
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Duke University Press eBooks, 2005
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Critical Inquiry, Oct 1, 1985
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Book by Bart Moore-Gilbert, Gareth Stanton, Willy Maley; Longman, 1997. 302 pgs. ... 9: Toward a ... more Book by Bart Moore-Gilbert, Gareth Stanton, Willy Maley; Longman, 1997. 302 pgs. ... 9: Toward a Theory of Minority Discourse: What is to Be Done? ... Reprinted from ABDUL R. JANMOHAMED and DAVID LLOYD (eds), The Nature and Context of Minority Discourse ( Oxford and ...
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The University Press of Kentucky eBooks, Nov 10, 2018
<p>Building on his previous analysis of the short stories in Wright's anthology <ita... more <p>Building on his previous analysis of the short stories in Wright's anthology <italic>Uncle Tom's Children,</italic> Abdul R. JanMohamed reflects on Wright's gradual discovery of a close relationship between social death, actual death, and symbolic death. Because "primitive accumulation" refers not only to the material dispossession of the slave's world but also to the appropriation of subjectivity, questions arise about whether an ex-slave can repossess psycho-political and sociopolitical components of subjectivity in Jim Crow societies that operate predominantly through the inculcation of widespread fear. Against the poststructuralist doxa about the decentered subject and the need to abolish "identity politics," JanMohamed insists that individual subjects are driven to center themselves and to make their lives as coherent as possible. This is especially true in contexts of colonization, racialization, genderization, and enslavement that rely on disrupting the attempts by oppressed people to control their daily practices.</p>
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Canadian Journal of African Studies, 1986
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Cultural Critique, 1991
ne cannot help thinking, as we contemplate the "cost" of the swift and furious executio... more ne cannot help thinking, as we contemplate the "cost" of the swift and furious execution of the war in the Persian Gulf by the United States, that we need to develop a new accounting procedure for the economies of war, a new cost-benefit analysis that will carefully "balance" not only the actual and potential transfers of material wealth that cause such wars but also the exchange of symbolic or moral value that is inevitably involved. While few will dispute the notion that these wars are fought over material resources like oil, we have yet to develop an articulate analysis of how symbolic or moral value is extracted in the course of these wars and is then transformed and reaccumulated as moral capital and eventually circulated and reinvested so that it can accrue further moral profit. In short, the production of moral surplus value is as crucial a function of these wars as is the transfer of material
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Cultural Critique, 1987
This battle with Mr. Covey was the turning point in my career as a slave.... I now resolved that,... more This battle with Mr. Covey was the turning point in my career as a slave.... I now resolved that, however long I might remain a slave in form, the day had passed forever when I could be a slave in fact. I did not hesitate to let it be known of me, that the white man who ...
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Cultural Critique, 1987
In his article in this issue, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. provides a fasci- nating example of a minori... more In his article in this issue, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. provides a fasci- nating example of a minority intellectual, Alexander Crummell, who accepted Euro-American hegemony so thoroughly that, after hav- ing learnt Greek in order to prove that he was civilized, he was willing to ...
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International Journal of African Historical Studies, 1984
... Manichean aesthetics: The politics of literature in colonial Africa. Post a Comment. CONTRIBU... more ... Manichean aesthetics: The politics of literature in colonial Africa. Post a Comment. CONTRIBUTORS: Author: JanMohamed, Abdul R. (b. 1945, d. ----. PUBLISHER: University of Massachusetts Press (Amherst). SERIES TITLE: YEAR: 1983. PUB TYPE: Book (ISBN ...
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Duke University Press eBooks, 2005
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Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities
To examine the narratives of plagues in Arab societies, the paper, along with the postcolonial pe... more To examine the narratives of plagues in Arab societies, the paper, along with the postcolonial perspectives, uses the concepts like ‘empathy’ or ‘detached concern’ to bring fresh and new understanding of the travel texts. It selected John Antes’ Observations on the Manners and Customs of the Egyptians, the Overflowing of the Nile and its Effects (1800) and Richard F. Burton’s Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El-Medinah and Meccah (1857) for the study. The paper analyses their narratives to understand their approaches in describing the ‘native’ Arab societies. The key findings show that while Burton tends to construct the people and their culture as ‘the Other’ although his mode of presentation tends to follow a mode of ‘detached concern’, Antes is, on the other hand, more objective but stood by the plague-infected people in empathy. The findings show that these Western travellers considered the concept of predestination, lack of quarantine, lack of sanitation, mass gatherings d...
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