Includes bibliographical references and index

505 00 |tThe perspective of the world: globalization then and now /|rMichel-Rolf Trouillot --|tModernity and periphery: toward a global and relational analysis /|rMary Louise Pratt --|tBeyond dichotomies: communicative action and cultural hegemony /|rEmmanuel Chukwudi Eze --|tMankind's proverbial imagination: critical perspectives on human universals as a global challenge /|rMeineke Schipper -- |tBringing history back in: of diasporas, hybridities, places, and histories /|rArif Dirlik --|tThe romance of Africa: three narratives by African-American women / rEileen Julien --|tEthnicity as otherness in British identity politics /|rRobert J.C. Young --|tReincarnating immigrant biography: on migration and transmigration / |rAkhil Gupta --|tWarped speech: the politics of global translation /|rEmily Apter --|tNational identity and immigration: American polity, nativism, and the "alien" / |rAli Behdad --|tRichard Wright as a specular border intellectual: the politics of identification in Black power /|rAbdul JanMohamed --|tBeyond Dichotomies: translation/transculturation and the colonial difference / |rWalter D. Mignolo,|rFreya Schiwy --|tThe unforeseeable diversity of the world /|rEdouard Glissant