Writing diaspora in the west : intimacy, identity and the new marginalism

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.--jacket. 1. First Person Reflection : Origins Of The Marginal Disposition -- 2. Of Home And Hearth : Maps, Histories And Territorial Claims -- 3. The Subject Missing : Erasure And The Reflexive Margin -- 4. Conflation, Contradiction And The Colonized Mind -- 5. The Curious Heimat : Fetishism, Rupture, Boundary. Peter Mccarthy. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 163-174) And Index. Cover......Page 1 Contents......Page 8 Acknowledgments......Page 10 Introduction......Page 12 1 First Person Reflection: Origins of the Marginal Disposition......Page 32 A mad aggregate of doctrines, or the revised new syllabus......Page 38 All I want is to enter my house justified......Page 44 2 Of Home and Hearth: Maps, Histories and Territorial Claims......Page 54 I am in anguish in order to flee it......Page 62 The truth has two faces.........Page 68 A road map for marginalism?......Page 75 For my country's good......Page 78 A compote of racism and ethnic slur in a marginalist jus......Page 84 3 The Subject Missing: Erasure and the Reflexive Margin......Page 91 A cloud of representations......Page 94 Circling the margins of becoming......Page 100 The grey zone, or intimacy's denial......Page 108 It is all a recording, really?......Page 112 Is anybody home?......Page 117 4 Conflation, Contradiction and the Colonized Mind......Page 120 Curiously interdependent territories......Page 122 The marginalist poetics of erasure......Page 126 Let's not talk about that......Page 130 The centre of the margin......Page 135 Figures in a landscape?......Page 140 5 The Curious Heimat: Fetishism, Rupture, Boundary......Page 146 The logical small change, intimacy's measure......Page 147 Everyone's lookin' for strange......Page 152 The imaginary geography of the marginalist......Page 155 The Mohammedan trauma of Edward W. Said......Page 163 The sepulchre of the margins......Page 165 The new propaganda......Page 167 Notes......Page 171 References......Page 194 B......Page 206 G......Page 207 K......Page 208 S......Page 209 Z......Page 210 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.--Résumé de l'éditeur 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.