margin of margin: Profile of an Unrepentant Postcolonial Collaborator

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Acknowledgements......Page 2 Bibliography......Page 3 I......Page 4 II......Page 11 III......Page 15 The subaltern cannot speak. There is no virtue in global laundry lists with “woman” as a pious item (Gayatri Chakrabarty Spivak, 1988).......Page 22 II. Two Derridas......Page 25 III. Derrida vulgarized......Page 30 IV. Derrida’s Supplement.......Page 32 V. Deconstruction Decolonization......Page 35 VI. Elaborating through Borges......Page 39 I. Closure for Third World......Page 43 II. Spivak Disinterred......Page 44 III. Spivak versus Resnick-Wolff......Page 49 IV. Can the Savage Speak?......Page 50 V. Re-entry of Hegel: Strategic Essentialism......Page 55 VI. Limits of a Closure: Mimicry of Overdetermination......Page 56 I. Laclau-Mouffe but Not Quite......Page 61 II. Passive Revolution: a Hegelian Reading of Gramsci......Page 62 III. From Passive Revolution to Passive Re-evaluation......Page 66 IV. Syntax of Hegemony in a Postmodern Context......Page 69 V. Beyond Laclau-Mouffe’s Hegemony......Page 78 I. How It Did Not Start......Page 85 II. A Section Written a Decade Ago......Page 86 III. A Section That Is Not Ours......Page 90 IV. Rewriting Gramsci in the Context of Cultural Differences......Page 95 V. Some Entirely New Conceptual Tools......Page 98 VI. Cross-comparing with Other Positions......Page 101 VII. Sameness, Difference and Diversity......Page 102 I. Colony and Postcolony......Page 107 II. Hegemony as a Lack of Hegemony......Page 112 III. Bhabha’s Notion of Hybridity......Page 117 IV. Colonial Difference and Colonial Equality......Page 125 II. Hegel’s Logic......Page 131 III. Hegel sans Essence......Page 136 IV. Margin of Margin......Page 140 V. Synthetic Hegemony, Symptom, Margin of Margin: The Story of the Ramayana......Page 144 VI. How Sita Spoke to the Deaf......Page 147 Bibliography......Page 150