Ethics After Idealism: Theory--Culture--Ethnicity--Reading

Methodologically situated in the contentious spaces between critical theory and cultural studies, and always attending to the implications of ethnicity, this book constitutes a unique intervention in contemporary cultural politics. --Social Semiotics

At a time when cultural identity has become intrinsic to the way we read our many others, Rey Chow argues that what demands to be examined critically is no longer identity politics per se but the idealism--especially in the sense of idealizing otherness--that lies at the heart of identity politics. She discusses multiple cultural forms--fiction, film, popular music, poetry, and essays--and a range of cultural topics--pedagogy, multiculturalism, fascism, sexuality, miscegenation, fantasy, nostalgia, and postcoloniality.

Author: Rey Chow
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 01/22/1998
Pages: 264
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 9.17h x 6.15w x 0.77d
ISBN: 9780253211552

About the Author

Rey Chow is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine. She is the author of several books, including Woman and Chinese Modernity, Writing Diaspora, Xie zai guo yi wai, and Primitive Passions: Visuality, Sexuality, Ethnography, and Contemporary Chinese Cinema, which was awarded the James Russell Lowell Prize by the Modern Language Association.