Canadian multiculturalism and the diasporic critic’s (self-) location
Part of : Γράμμα : περιοδικό θεωρίας και κριτικής ; Vol.6, No.1, 1998, pages 117-134
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This essay is primarily concerned with the construction and function of the diasporic critic in general, and in Canada in particular. The first part of the essay examines the political and theoretical implications of the Canadian federal policy of multiculturalism as a state apparatus that legitimizes, contains, and disciplines ethnicity, especially in the cultural and political climate of the early 1990 ’s. The second part focuses on what constitutes the diasporic critic as a subject in the contexts of the “jargon of authenticity ” , the “native informant” , and hybridity. Part of what materializes the diasporic critic’s “responsibility” , the argument goes, involves a “negative pedagogy ” which challenges the teleological narrative of progress fostered by multiculturalism.
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Περιέχει βιβλιογραφία και σημειώσεις
