Columbus' imaginary: A critique of post-colonial identity
Ganguly, Keya
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Title
Columbus' imaginary: A critique of post-colonial identity
Author(s)
Ganguly, Keya
Issue Date
1994
Doctoral Committee Chair(s)
Grossberg, Lawrence
Department of Study
Communication
Discipline
Communication
Degree Granting Institution
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Degree Name
Ph.D.
Degree Level
Dissertation
Keyword(s)
Anthropology, Cultural
Mass Communications
Language
eng
Abstract
This study examines the construction and negotiation of post-colonial identity in everyday life. Specifically, it addresses the mechanisms and practices by which a community of immigrants to the U.S. from the Indian subcontinent comes to terms with its self-representation(s). The analysis uses ethnography as a mode of theorizing problems of experience and subjectivity in the context of a globalized world. The project is poised at the interstices of critical theory, post-colonial scholarship, and marxist cultural criticism. The overall attempt is to account for the ways in which domains of daily life both constrain and enable the emergence of a particular formation of post-colonial subjecthood within the metropolitan location of the United States. The study thus seeks to intervene in contemporary debates on the status of 'local' discourses (of, for example, identity and experience) in the constitution of global subjectivities. It also proposes that the consolidation of post-colonial identity represents a vexed case in current discussions of the predicament of modernity.
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